Exercise is Medicine Greenville

What Exercise is Medicine Greenville does

Exercise is Medicine Greenville (EIMG) is a non-profit healthcare-community partnership program founded in 2016 that delivers a 12-week physician-referred exercise and lifestyle intervention for adults with chronic health conditions such as hypertension, obesity, hyperlipidemia, and hypercholesterolemia. Founded by Dr. Jennifer L. Trilk at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, the program is a four-way coalition between Prisma Health (the largest not-for-profit health system in South Carolina), the YMCA of Greenville, USC School of Medicine Greenville, and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), and is positioned as the first-in-the-nation partnership coupling medical-school research with clinical referrals and community delivery. Patients must be referred by one of 35+ participating Prisma Health practices; once onboarded, they attend twice-weekly exercise routines, behavior-change coaching, and wellness assessments at seven YMCA locations across the Upstate South Carolina region.

Name

Exercise is Medicine Greenville

Legal name

Exercise is Medicine Greenville

Website

https://eimgreenville.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Health & Lifestyle Medicine Programs

NAICS

Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers (71394), Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists (62134), Sports and Recreation Instruction (61162)

SIC

Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090), Services-Membership Sports & Recreation Clubs (7997)

akta.pro primary industry

Chronic Condition Lifestyle Coaching (Non-Clinical) (HSADAGAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Rehabilitation Return-to-Exercise Training (Non-Clinical) (HSADAAAK), Sports Medicine, Athletic Training & Rehabilitation Services (EDALAIAH)

Keywords

• Chronic disease management
• Exercise prescription programs
• Lifestyle medicine services
• Physician-referred fitness
• Community health programs

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Program Enrollment Fees: The 12-week comprehensive medically-based intervention program charges $299 per participant, which includes full access to YMCA facilities for the duration of the program. Financial assistance is available through YMCA scholarship funds for participants with demonstrated financial need.

Pricing tiers

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Core offering

Exercise is Medicine Greenville delivers a comprehensive 12-week medically-based exercise and lifestyle intervention program for adults experiencing at-risk chronic health conditions such as hypertension, obesity, hyperlipidemia, or hypercholesterolemia. Participants are referred by Prisma Health healthcare providers and onboarded at YMCA facilities, where EIMG-credentialed fitness professionals deliver individualized exercise plans, behavioral and emotional support, and lifestyle coaching. The program costs $299 and includes full access to YMCA facilities for the duration of the 12-week intervention, with financial assistance available through YMCA scholarship funds.

Product overview

Exercise is Medicine Greenville is a single unified healthcare-community partnership program that integrates physician-referred patients into a structured 12-week exercise and lifestyle intervention. The core EIMG program connects patients diagnosed with chronic conditions to specially-trained exercise professionals at YMCA locations through a physician referral system. The program includes a Professional Portal with training resources and an EIMG Pro Training Webinar Series for credentialing exercise professionals. The program uses Epic EMR integration to track physical activity as a vital sign and enable coordinated care between healthcare providers and fitness professionals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Exercise is Medicine Greenville (EIMG) Core 12-Week Program A comprehensive 12-week medically based exercise and lifestyle program for adults experiencing at-risk chronic health conditions such as hypertension, obesity, hyperlipidemia, or hypercholesterolemia. Participants are referred by participating Prisma Health practices and onboarded at YMCA facilities by an EIMG Program Coordinator, where they receive an individualized exercise plan, behavioral and emotional support, and engagement with an EIMG-credentialed exercise professional. Includes full facility access for the 12-week duration and is offered with financial assistance via YMCA scholarship funds for demonstrated need.

Quantifiable outcome

• 210 patients completed program (>60% graduation rate)
• +3 more outcomes

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Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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No

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Integration1 record

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Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Prisma HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016Prisma Health is the key healthcare delivery partner providing physician referrals, medical oversight, and integration with the Epic EMR system. As a public not-for-profit academic healthcare delivery system, Prisma Health commits to medical excellence through clinical care, education and research. The organization is the state's largest not-for-profit healthcare system with 19 hospitals and 300+ ambulatory sites.
• YMCA of GreenvillecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016The YMCA of Greenville provides the community-based facilities and fitness professionals for program delivery. The Y is a cause-driven organization focused on youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility, serving over 70,000 people annually. YMCA locations across the Upstate provide exercise facilities and financial assistance through scholarship funds.
• University of South Carolina School of Medicine GreenvillecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016USC School of Medicine Greenville provides research leadership, medical education integration, and program direction. The medical school was the first in the U.S. to incorporate more than 80 hours of lifestyle medicine training over four years. Dr. Jennifer Trilk serves as Principal Investigator and founded EIMG.
• Foothills Area YMCAminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016Foothills Area YMCA serves as a regional program delivery site for EIMG, chartered to serve Oconee County as well as Clemson and Central communities.
• American College of Sports MedicinecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2007ACSM launched the global Exercise is Medicine initiative in 2007 and provides the evidence-based framework, professional credentials, and ongoing research support for EIMG. ACSM is the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world with more than 50,000 members and certified professionals worldwide.
• WalgreensminorOthersWalgreens Pharmacy donated blood pressure monitors to help the YMCA of Greenville acquire the needed equipment for the EIMG program.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• AdventHealth Whole Health: AdventHealth's Whole Health program is a system-wide lifestyle medicine initiative embedded in a multi-state hospital network — comparable to EIMG's model of integrating lifestyle medicine into clinical care, but at much greater scale and with broader service offerings.
• Cleveland Clinic Lifestyle Medicine: Cleveland Clinic operates an enterprise-scale lifestyle medicine service line within a large academic health system — comparable in delivering physician-prescribed lifestyle interventions for chronic disease, but with vastly broader resources, geographic reach, and integrated specialty care.

Direct peers

• Pritikin Longevity Center: Pritikin operates residential and outpatient medically supervised lifestyle programs focused on exercise, nutrition, and behavioral change for adults with hypertension, obesity, and cardiovascular disease — closely aligned with EIMG's chronic condition cohort and intervention design.
• INTERVENT International: INTERVENT delivers physician-referred, lifestyle-change and chronic disease management programs with shared savings arrangements with payers and employers — directly comparable to EIMG's clinic-to-community referral model and chronic disease focus.
• Ornish Lifestyle Medicine (Sharecare): Dr. Dean Ornish's evidence-based lifestyle medicine program is Medicare-covered for reversing heart disease and targets the same chronic disease population through structured exercise, nutrition, stress management, and behavioral support — directly comparable in clinical intensity and outcome ambition.
• YMCA of the USA Diabetes Prevention Program: The YMCA's CDC-recognized Diabetes Prevention Program uses a similar community-delivery, lifestyle-coaching model for at-risk adults. Both rely on YMCA facility infrastructure, structured12+ week curricula, and partnerships with referring clinicians for chronic disease prevention.
• Exercise is Medicine (ACSM Global Initiative): ACSM's global Exercise is Medicine initiative is the parent framework that spawned EIMG. Both share the clinic-to-community model of physician-prescribed physical activity and lifestyle coaching for chronic disease, with EIMG as the flagship Greenville implementation.
• Cooper Institute / Cooper Aerobics: The Cooper Institute is a long-established preventive medicine research and program organization delivering clinically integrated exercise and lifestyle interventions for chronic disease — directly comparable to EIMG's academic-clinical-community coalition approach.
• Complete Health Improvement Program (CHIP): CHIP is a community-delivered lifestyle intervention program for adults with chronic disease risk factors; its structured curriculum, outcomes focus, and clinician-led referrals make it a directly comparable model to EIMG's 12-week intervention.

Others

• American College of Lifestyle Medicine: ACLM is the professional society advancing lifestyle medicine as a clinical specialty — not a direct competitor but a thematically aligned enabler providing physician certification, education, and policy advocacy relevant to EIMG's chronic condition coaching model.

Market position

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Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

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