When Wellness Becomes Fitness

CrossFit KMC is located at the Kirby Medical Center in Monticello, Illinois, and is one of the first CrossFit affiliates to open on a hospital campus. KMC CEO Steve Tenhouse and Director of Health and Wellness Services Josh Newton are using CrossFit to give the hospital a new focus: keeping people out of the hospital. “A lot of health care organizations are reactive and prescriptive in nature,” Newton says. KMC leaders wanted to change that. “We really sat down and tried to look to see where health care