Dr. P.J. Lynn, Medical Director of Emergency and Hospital Medicine at Atrium Health Floyd Cherokee Medical Center, recently completed a year-long certificate program from the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) called Leading Physician Well-being.

Lynn was one of 120 physicians selected from a national pool to participate in this program, which was created to provide leadership development, training in physician well-being advocacy and performance improvement project skill-building. He developed a project called “Creating a Wellness Committee at Cherokee Medical Center" and presented this to his peers in a final Project Showcase in November. 

One of the first projects the committee completed was the creation of a Vitality Center for teammates at the hospital. Lynn applied for a grant through SPIRIT, Atrium Health Floyd's teammate-focused fundraising arm of Floyd Healthcare Foundation, to buy exercise equipment for the center. He said the Vitality Center is one of several wellness projects the committee has planned.