2023 Medical Fitness Facility & Professionals of the Year Awards
These awards celebrate and honor the best and the brightest in medical fitness center management. Awards, in a variety of categories, identify those organizations, facilities, programs and individuals that are deserving of recognition for their achievements.
Awards were presented during the 2023 MFA Annual Conference Awards Ceremony in Baltimore.
To nominate a person or organization for our 2024 awards, please click here.
Hank Boerner Pioneer Award
Carrie Solmundson, Executive Director, The Wellness Institute at Seven Oaks General Hospital
Marla Richmond Memorial Education Award
Debbie Bellenger, Founder/CEO of DB Fitness and Wellness Solutions, LLC
Individual Professional of the Year
Lynda Foley, Director, Medical Fitness at HealthFitness and Executive Director of Good Samaritan Health & Wellness Center
Industry Partner of the Year
Strategic Partner of the Year
Certified Facility of the Year Awards
Presented to:
Program Innovation Awards
“Cardiometabolic Risk Reduction Program”
The Wellness Institute at Seven Oaks General Hospital
“Improving Balance in the Senior Body”
CDPHP Fitness Connect at the Ciccotti Center
“Masters Swim”
Mount Carmel Fitness Center
“Wellness Wednesday”
Sam B. Cook Healthplex
Medical Fitness Week Winners
Medical Fitness Week is an annual event for MFA fitness facility members to engage with their members in fun competitions: Walk 10K and MOVE150. For more information about Medical Fitness Week, click here.
The 2023 Walk10K Winners
Total Number of Steps: 14,089,031
Emory Decatur Hospital Wellness Center in Decatur, GA
Highest Average Number of Steps: 88,136
Beacon Health & Fitness-Granger in Granger, IN
The 2023 MOVE150 Winners
Total Number of Moves: 70,943
ECU Health Wellness Center in Greensboro, NC
Highest Average Moves: 397
Beacon Health & Fitness-South Bend in South Bend, IN
MFA Rising Stars
The Regional Rising Star Awards program recognizes outstanding individual achievement and significant leadership within the medical fitness community. For more information, click here.
Drew Earls, Medical Program Leader
Sam B. Cook Healthplex
Casandra Flotte, Group Exercise Supervisor
Northwestern Medicine Delnor Health & Fitness Center in Geneva, IL
Lisa Hale, Fitness Manager
Aurora Wellness Center in Burlington, WI
Michelle Long, Wellness Navigator
Piedmont Wellness Center in Fayetteville, GA
Heather Panczyk, Fitness Program Coordinator
Beaumont Health Club in Rochester Hills, MI
