Cmap Express

Cmap's healthy lifestyle program provides demonstration and education on proper nutrition and physical activity for good health and is designed to fight obesity in central louisiana. The goal of this program, through physician referral, community tools, and workplace education, is to provide central louisiana residents with resources to lead healthy lifestyles. This program is coordinated by a registered and licensed dietitian and employs an exercise specialist. Clients receive one-on-one consultation with the dietitian and exercise specialist for personalized meal planning and exercise. The program is designed to work with clients for at least 3 to 6 months, tracking their progress with eating habits, behavior changes, weight and inches lost, and educating clients on proper nutrition and physical activity. In 2024, 359 patients participated in the cmap healthy lifestyle program.

In 2024, in support of its supported organization's (the rapides foundation) healthcare access initiative, cmap's cancer screening project provided free mammograms, pap smears, pelvic exams and colorectal cancer tests to 545 uninsured and underinsured patients who couldn't afford these critical screenings. These tests are brought to rural areas through a cancer screening van. The van is a partnership between the rapides foundation, cmap, the feist-weiller cancer center at lsu health sciences center -- shreveport and the lsu family medicine residency in alexandria. Through the mobile unit patients received 50 cervical screenings and 421 mammograms. Also, approximately 74 women and men received take-home colorectal cancer screening tests. Cmap also administers the community health advisor (cha) project, a community-based program designed to train community volunteers to help educate their peers about the importance of cancer screenings. Once trained by the cancer screening project community health advisor, these volunteers will provide education, outreach and information to men and women throughout central louisiana. The goal is to encourage residents to practice early detection of colon, breast and cervical cancer while it is in the most treatable stages. The cha project attended 24 events in 2024.