Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 77.74
Liaison Ian McKeown
Submission Date March 4, 2022

STARS v2.2

Loyola Marymount University
PA-14: Wellness Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.75 / 1.00 Jessica Hernandez
Sustainability Coordinator
Facilities Management
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Part 1. Wellness program

Does the institution have a wellness program that makes counseling, referral, and wellbeing services available to all students?:
Yes

Does the institution have a wellness and/or employee assistance program that makes counseling, referral, and wellbeing services available to all academic staff?:
Yes

Does the institution have a wellness and/or employee assistance program that makes counseling, referral, and wellbeing services available to all non-academic staff?:
Yes

A brief description of the institution’s wellness and/or employee assistance program(s):
Student program(s):
https://studentaffairs.lmu.edu/wellness/

The Student Health Center and Student Psychological Services are open to current students in an effort to make life on campus a safe and healthy experience. In addition to these services, the Fitwell Center offers nutritional guidance and personal fitness assessment.
Student Health Services (SHS) strives to create a safe and healthy campus community for all by providing those services, opportunities, and experiences which support academic pursuits and personal development.

Student Health Services is a full service medical office and is accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC). Our health care team includes physicians, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, an x-ray technologist, and trained support staff.

Student Psychological Services (SPS) provides confidential individual and group therapy; walk-in consultations; emergency psychological services; and psycho-educational outreach programming. SPS also offers psychological consultation to students, faculty, staff, or parents who are concerned about a student. There is no charges for our services.

Fitness and Wellness Programs stretch, strengthen, tone, breathe and sweat. That’s the regimen you’ll go through as you increase your fitness level and improve your mental, physical and spiritual well-being.

Located on the first floor of the Burns Recreation Center, the FitWell Center is committed to providing health and wellness programming and education for the entire campus. Offerings include a variety of group exercise classes, personal training packages, nutrition consultations, massage therapy, fitness assessments and specialized wellness presentations

LMU Campus Awareness Resource Education Services (CARES) provides education to the campus community about resources, support and policies at the university regarding sexual and interpersonal misconduct and prevention. ‌


Staff/faculty program(s):
LMU is launching the MyWellness Rewards Program to support you and your family as you get healthy and stay healthy. This program offers many resources to support your healthy living journey. You'll find a variety of classes, workshops and programs to encourage and motivate work/life balance. Make sure to look for updates on the MyWellness Incentive Program, you can earn points to win big prizes! Click "Track Your Progress" on the home page to track your fitness and health activity.
https://studentaffairs.lmu.edu/wellness/campusrecreationandstudentfacilities/

LMU's Wellness Program understands that good health is more than the absence of major illness. Paralleling with Jesuit and Marymount traditions, the programs encompass 'wellness' as the view of one's self from a whole perspective and focuses on the inseparability of the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of an individual. A wide spectrum of holistic health, mind/body, fitness and wellness classes, workshops and programs are offered to LMU faculty and staff to encourage and support work/life balance.
https://admin.lmu.edu/hr/programsservices/wellness/

To help faculty/staff members deal with personal issues and concerns, LMU offers an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) at no cost. The EAP provides confidential service by experienced, licensed professional counselors who can help faculty/staff members and their household members deal with issues such as depression, marital and family issues and substance abuse. The program also includes services for work/life issues, such as legal and financial services, work/career conflict resources and child care/elder care resources. All full-time faculty/staff members and their household members are eligible for the EAP. EAP counselors are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The EAP is completely confidential.

Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage

All full-time faculty, full-time, regular and full-time term staff members are eligible to participate. Eligibility commences on the first of the month following the faculty/staff member's employment date.

Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage. The LMU benefits program allows its faculty and staff members to select his/her own personalized package by choosing from a variety of benefits. As part of its benefit offering, the University pays a portion of the cost of a faculty/staff member's health care plan.
https://admin.lmu.edu/hr/totalrewards/benefits/

Part 2. Smoke-free environments

Does the institution prohibit smoking within all occupied buildings owned or leased by the institution?:
Yes

Does the institution restrict outdoor smoking?:
Yes

Does the institution prohibit smoking and tobacco use across the entire campus?:
No

A copy of the institution's smoke-free policy:
The institution’s smoke-free policy:
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Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the institution’s wellness programs is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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