Health coaching

View our 2025 health coaching brochure

Have you ever wanted to sit down with an expert and get advice on how to improve some aspect of your health? Consider your wish granted. Here are a variety of coaching programs available to you — as an enrollee in the Certificated Employee Health Plan — most at no charge. Some programs are available to your covered dependents, too.* Participation is 100% confidential; no personal information is ever shared with MNPS.

Personal Health Coaching

Need some one-on-one help with a health concern or improvement effort? Our onsite health coaches are here for you ... at no cost to you! They provide confidential, personalized health coaching when you want to lose weight, improve your eating habits, quit tobacco, manage a chronic health condition (like diabetes, heart or respiratory disease or obesity), set goals or make other health improvements.

Meet Bobbi Nickel, RN, MSN

Bobbi Nickel is a Certified Health & Wellness Coach, Certified Holistic Health Coach and Certified Cancer Support Educator. She works through the Vanderbilt Health at MNPS Employee & Family Health Care Centers and is currently scheduling one-on-one coaching sessions. Her visits are currently being conducted via telehealth. Call 615-259-8755 or send a message through the My Health at Vanderbilt portal to make an appointment with Bobbi.

Meet B.J. Reeves, BSN, RN

B.J. Reeves is an onsite health coach just for MNPS employees. She is currently scheduling one-on-one coaching sessions via virtual appointments, and she is also available for in-person sessions at the MNPS Employee Wellness Center. In addition to the above areas, B.J. also provides personalized support for:

Time management challenges, which can lead to poor food choices
Financial stress, including food and/or housing insecurities
Medication issues, like affordability and side effects

Make an appointment with B.J. by calling 629-264-8052 (weekday hours are 7 a.m-3 p.m., leave a message other times). Or send her email at Barbara.Reeves@evernorth.com.

As with all our health care providers, anything you discuss with our health coaches is completely confidential and private.

Weight Management Program

The Weight Management Program, offered through the MNPS Health Care Centers, provides personalized help for people with a BMI of 25 or greater who want to lose weight and get healthier.

Enrollees who meet certain requirements can receive 50% reimbursement, up to s $1,650 lifetime limit, for membership fees at an approved weight management program/organization, such as:

The New Beginnings Center
WeightWatchers
Jenny Craig
YMCA
Planet Fitness
Vanderbilt Weight Loss Center

The Weight Management Program does not include or cover weight loss medications. Learn more about the program here, or contact Laura Vanderpool at 615-875-1966.

Omada

Diabetes prevention, type 1 and type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure management

If you live with diabetes and/or hypertension, or if you’re at risk for developing diabetes, this personalized program combines real human support with the latest technology so you can make lasting changes, one step at a time. Participants in the interactive Omada programs receive free Wi-Fi-connected devices to track progress, along with sessions with a professional health coach. Visit omadahealth.com/mnps to see if you qualify.

Cylinder

Digestive health program

Cylinder is a program to help improve health — starting with digestion. You will be guided on a path to better digestive health with a step-by-step program to reduce digestive symptoms and meet your goals. It includes an app, access to a registered dietitian and a health coach and tools like the GutCheck microbiome test ($150 value). It’s all done from home — private and no cost to you.

Get started at go.cylinderhealth.com/mnps.

Virta

Better manage your diabetes or reverse it!

Virta provides everything you need to track and understand your numbers, including a no-cost-to-you meter, testing supplies and access to a library of online resources all at no cost to you. You also get ongoing support from a team of clinicians and health coaches who work with you to customize a nutrition plan that will help you lose weight and reverse type 2 diabetes and prediabetes.

Visit virtahealth.com/join/mnps.

Foodsmart

Telenutrition

Meet one-on-one, via phone or video, with a registered dietitian, who will provide you with a nutrition assessment, a personalized nutrition plan and real-time support. Between appointments, Foodsmart’s healthy eating tools will help you stick to your plan and save money on eating well. Participants age 13-18 must have a parent enroll with them.

Visit foodsmart.com/members/mnps, call 1-888-837-5325 or email telenutrition@foodsmart.com.

Diabetes education and medical nutrition therapy

If you live with diabetes, knowing how to eat and/or manage your condition can be a puzzle. Now, you can meet one-on-one with a certified diabetes educator and go home with a personalized plan. You simply need a referral from your primary care provider or endocrinologist to access these services. The MNPS Health Care Centers can also provide a referral; call us at 615-259-8755.

Healthy Pregnancies, Healthy Babies®

Prenatal support

This program offers prenatal support and education to help keep mom and baby healthy during pregnancy and in the weeks following birth. You get live, 24/7 telephone support from nurses and access to a library of maternity resources. Enroll in your first trimester, and you’ll receive $500 when you complete the program ($250 if you register in your second trimester).

Visit MNPSBenefits.org/hphb or call 1-800-615-2906. You can also get the Cigna Healthy Pregnancy app: Healthy PregnancyTM app.

Cigna Health Advocates/Personal Health Team

Cigna health advocates are registered nurses, licensed behavioral clinicians, health educators, pharmacists, nutritionists and clinicians. They are all members of Cigna’s Personal Health Team and are standing by to help you set and achieve your health goals.

In addition to assistance with chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart and respiratory disease, health advocates can provide guidance on medications, low back pain, osteoarthritis, anxiety and depression. Call 1-877-459-9896 or visit myCigna.com.

Lifestyle Management Programs®

This program provides free telephone coaching support when you want to quit tobacco, lose weight and/or better manage stress. It’s for people who prefer to connect with a coach by telephone, offering one-on-one coaching, convenient hours, and a program workbook and toolkit. Call 1-877-459-9896 or visit myCigna.com.

My Health Assistant®

This program, powered by WedMD, offers free online coaching support for nutrition, exercise, losing weight, managing stress, managing a chronic condition, quitting tobacco and maintaining a positive mood. This program is for people who prefer to connect with a coach online. Visit myCigna.com.

* All programs are available to covered adult dependents, except the Healthy Pregnancies program, which is available only to your covered spouse/partner. Covered children can participate in health coaching with Bobbi Nickel and Cigna Health Advocates.

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