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Phil Balogh
Had Phil Balogh, director of Nutrition Services and Environmental Services for Silverton Hospital Network, not entered WellspringHeart he figures he would have been entering an operating room at some point in his future. He had developed type 2 diabetes and was on medications for his high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol.

"I could see the direction my health was going probably meant I was headed for heart surgery or worse," he says. That physical state must seem like a long time ago to Balogh, who is now off his medications and is 52 pounds lighter.

"The weight loss is just a visual measure of how I am doing," he says. "The real gain has been in how much better and stronger I feel, and how much lower my health risk is today."