Health & Wellness Briefs

Norcross-based UHS-Pruitt will develop an upscale six-story, 120-bed nursing facility on 1.15 acres at 1753 Peachtree Street. e site is located less than half a mile south of Piedmont Hospital and the Shepherd Center.

BLAST900, a lifestyle based workout facility featuring interval-based classes, nutrition specialists, and personal tness assessments, will open at Skyhouse, 100 6th St., in Midtown next month. is will be the fourth location to open in Georgia with other locations in Athens, Buckhead and Dunwoody.

e American Cancer Society recently hosted its Centennial Birthday Celebration at e Ritz-Carlton, Buckhead (pictured at le ). e event, raised more than $540,000.

Senior services charity Senior Connections has received a $20,000 technology grant from e Wa e House Foundation. e grant will upgrade critical Meals On Wheels routing hardware and so ware components. Senior Connections prepares and delivers more than 700,000 meals annually to low-income seniors in the 10-county Atlanta and middle Georgia area. More than 400 volunteers help deliver the meals throughout the year.

Moss Robertson and his daughter Katie Sanders, part of one of Atlanta’s oldest and most prominent local business families, are planning to opening eight locations of Exercise Coach, which o ers guided tness programs for men and women. As part of the Boomershine family of auto dealers since 1929, this new venture into tness will begin in February with the opening of the rst Exercise Coach at 458 East Paces Ferry Road in Buckhead. A second location will open in John’s Creek. Additional locations are planned for Sandy Springs, Vinings, Brookhaven and Druid Hills, Alpharetta, Cumming and Dunwoody over the next four years.

Emory University School of Medicine, in collaboration with the Marcus Stroke & Neuroscience Center, will be part of a network of 25 regional coordinating centers from across the nation supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to revolutionize stroke clinical research by addressing new discoveries in prevention, treatment and recovery. e NIH Stroke Trials Network, or NIH StrokeNet, has teams of researchers representing every medical specialty needed for stroke care. According to NIH, the new system is intended to streamline stroke research by centralizing approval and review, lessening time and costs of clinical trials, and assembling a comprehensive data sharing system.