Article: New facility-certification program.(News)(Medical Fitness Association )(Brief article)

Article: Association Publishes Standards
Quad - State Business Journal;  May 1, 2006 ;     383 words ......involved in the debate over whether a medical fitness center should be for-profit or nonprofit...Gary Wing, executive director of the Medical Fitness Association in Richmond. She did not...things such as cardiac rehab." The Medical Fitness Association has developed standards...

Article: MFA To Host Medical Fitness Institute
Targeted News Service;  January 30, 2009 ;     101 words ......following news release: The Medical Fitness Association, an AHA affiliate, will host its first annual Medical Fitness Institute June 11-14 at Vanderbilt...related to successful operation of medical fitness centers and the development...

Article: Medical Fitness Centers Grow in Popularity
AP Online;  July 26, 2004 ;     524 words ......07-26-2004 The rising popularity of medical fitness centers is in line with the growth...Cary Wing with the Virginia-based Medical Fitness Association. "The consumer is becoming...center." There were more than 700 medical fitness centers in the United States, Canada...

Article: Medical fitness centers become increasingly popular
AP Worldstream;  July 25, 2004 ;     530 words ......Skokie, Illinois, joined a Chicago medical fitness center with health professionals...exercise. The rising popularity of medical fitness centers is in line with the growth...Cary Wing with the Virginia-based Medical Fitness Association. "The consumer is becoming...

Article: Emirate's oldest hospital to stop visa certification medicals.
Gulf News (United Arab Emirates);  January 6, 2009 ;     306 words ......will now shift to Al Muhaisna Medical Fitness Centre. Dubai: The emirate...hospital will stop offering medical fitness certification services this...providing expatriates with their medical fitness certification since the 1990s...

Article: Facilities Prepare For Medical Fitness Week
Targeted News Service;  March 3, 2009 ;     87 words ...The Health Forum issued the following news release: The Medical Fitness Association will sponsor its 5th Annual Medical Fitness Week April 20-26. Participating medical fitness centers and communities offer programming that focuses on...

Article: Residents confused over where to go for medical fitness tests.
Gulf News (United Arab Emirates);  October 22, 2008 ;     538 words ...Dubai: Ignorance about where to go for medical fitness certification, required for expatriates...caused delays. The UAE in July required medical fitness certification to be done only at certified...private centres can no longer conduct medical fitness certification. The decision has ...

Article: Fitness certificate issue will be solved soon, says Dubai official.
Arab News (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia);  August 18, 2008 ;     367 words ......civic body official clarified that the medical fitness certificates, issued by municipality-r...Services (DOHMS), comes into force. Medical fitness certificate is a must to get a new...visa in every three years. Currently, medical fitness certificates issued by municipality...

Article: The Hospital As Health Club; Medical centers offer supervised workouts for recovering patients and others concerned about exercise risks.
The Washington Post;  January 25, 2000 ;     700+ words ......pulmonary disease. Most come to these medical fitness centers--some in hospitals, others...million Americans have joined the 550 medical fitness centers around the country, according...others who've chosen to exercise at a medical fitness centers, says she appreciates that...

Article: Investigators at Maastricht University zero in on type 2 diabetes.(Report)
Health & Medicine Week;  May 26, 2008 ;     468 words ......resistance and endurance type exercise or medical fitness intervention programmes is generally...an individualised approach such as medical fitness intervention programmes is unknown...consisting of either brisk walking or a medical fitness programme in type 2 diabetes patients...

Article: Medical fitness centers changing focus
Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  January 19, 2005 ;     629 words ......hand-in-hand with the rising popularity of medical fitness centers in general. Although they...recently. In 2004, there were 715 medical fitness and wellness facilities in the United...from 550 in 2000, according to the Medical Fitness Association. "Wellness and fitness...

Article: New medical certification centre to open in January.
Gulf News (United Arab Emirates);  December 23, 2008 ;     404 words ...Dubai: A medical fitness certification centre that can...able to handle quiet a number of medical fitness examinations. We can process up...Maisa Al Bustani, director of the medical fitness department at Dohms, said the...

Article: Pittsburgh-Area Hospitals Boost Profits by Branching into Health Clubs.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  October 12, 2003 ;     700+ words ......building it no longer needed into a medical fitness center. When it opens in December...either recently opened or plan to open medical fitness centers, including Mon Valley Hospital...years ago opened the region's first medical fitness center, an $11.2 million, 70,000-square...

Article: New centres to test medical fitness of visa applicants.
Gulf News (United Arab Emirates);  December 31, 2008 ;     326 words ......announced that effective January 1, the medical fitness tests for residency visas will be...visas are now required to get their medical fitness certificates from these centres as...Dhabi (Haad) and will conduct the medical fitness tests as per the Central Law introduced...