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891 Delaware Avenue Is Future Home Of OWM Integrative Wellness

There's good news, and a light at the end of a long dark tunnel, for 891 Delaware Avenue – a building that has sat vacant for some time. Dr. Leonard Kaplan, President of OWM, recently paid $1.5 million for the 13,000-square-foot mansion and a nearly 6,000-square-foot carriage house. The goal is convert the compound into a home for OWM Integrative Wellness, which focuses on preventive medicine and wellness.

This is certainly welcome news for the Delaware Avenue mansion, which many people have been hoping for some sort of revival. The property had previously been slated for apartments (see here).

Once completed in late 2023, the wellness center will offer advanced anti-aging therapies, regenerative solutions for pain of spine and joints, mind-body healing and rejuvenation, comprehensive integrative cancer support therapy, intravenous infusion therapy, a medical aesthetics spa, as well as women's health and breast cancer prevention.

To date, there has never been anything quite like this in Buffalo, located on such an impressive campus. Yes, there are wellness programs and facilities throughout the region, many of which specialize in various healing arts and health sciences, but nothing that encompasses such a full-spectrum of holistic medical wellness offerings. At this center/retreat, clients will be able to to spend an entire day at the facility, which will also features a meditation room, sauna, juice bar, and eventually the rejuvenating benefits of cold plunge tanks and flotation beds. 

OWM is not new to this sort of wellness therapy. Since 2014, Dr. Kaplan has been working with clients to help treat them by stimulating the body's own healing process. The Center incorporates traditional, functional, integrative, and regenerative medicine, while incorporating natural disciplines of naturopathic medicine. This is what sets OWM apart, as well as Dr. Kaplan's certification in Integrative Cancer Therapy, which adds to his nearly 30 years of expertise in regenerative medicine, integrative medicine, and musculoskeletal ultra-sonography. The goal of the Integrative Cancer Therapy is to work with cancer patients to boost their body and mind, in conjunction with their traditional cancer treatment. The benefit will be seen in the patient's ability to better tolerate treatment-related side effects, and to reduce treatment delays and or interruptions.   

"We are really excited to have found this architectural treasure," said OWM Integrative Wellness president, Dr. Leonard Kaplan. "Architecturally, it is important to note that the original owner, Orin Foster, retained architect and builder Frank H. Chappell to construct the Mediterranean revival mansion with barely pointed arches. The mansion was completed in 1905 with rafter tails supporting widely overhanging eaves which pay tribute to Arts & Crafts style, also incorporated in the exterior roof line. The new owner intends to respect the integrity of the building façade which had undergone gut restoration under previous owners. The planned renovation will retain the entire envelope of the building."

OWM is currently located at 235 S. Elmwood Avenue, Suite 120, Buffalo, NY 14201, at the corner of Chippewa. The expanded services at 891 Delaware Avenue means that OWM will be able to accommodate a more significant number of WNY clients, as well as those from Southern Ontario who are seeking "results-oriented healthcare."

To learn more about OWM's innovative services, visit owmintegrativewellness.Com.

Fort Meade Armed Forces Wellness Center Transforms Military Wellness Through Inaugural Training

1 / 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Students of the Navigating Operational Wellness Training gather around a table at the Kuhn Hall Education and Resiliency Center test kitchen to learn how to make a healthy breakfast in the microwave on August 22,2023, at Fort Meade, Maryland. The weeklong program informed service members of the resources available to them on the installation. (Photo Credit: Jasmyne Ferber) VIEW ORIGINAL 2 / 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Students of the Navigating Operational Wellness Training program participate in an obstacle course on August 22,2023, at Fort Meade, Maryland. Students who completed the NOW program received certifications in exercise programming and height-and-weight taping. (Photo Credit: Jasmyne Ferber) VIEW ORIGINAL 3 / 3 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Participants of the Navigating Operational Wellness Training program listen to an interactive brief on maintaining proper nutrition on August 22, 2023, at Fort Meade, Maryland. Other topics included mental skills and leadership, sleep hygiene and stress management, behavioral health, financial readiness, global installation resource education, and Army Combat Fitness Test coaching and grading. (Photo Credit: Jasmyne Ferber) VIEW ORIGINAL

FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. – The Fort Meade Armed Forces Wellness Center hosted the first iteration of an integrative training program Aug. 21-25 that aimed to deliver holistic wellness education to service members in the National Capital Region.

The weeklong Navigating Operational Wellness Training Program informed service members of the resources available to them on the installation, how to identify risk within their organizations at a basic level, and how to connect their squad to necessary resources.

Noelle Austin-Jones, director of Fort Meade AFWC, took inspiration from the Fort Belvoir AFWC course, which was developed last year. Austin-Jones said a significant reason for wanting to have the program here was the challenge of reaching service members embedded within secure organizations and letting them know the resiliency resources that are available to them.

"These service members in the training are the ones that will have eyes and ears on the people that need this connection with these resiliency resources," Austin-Jones said. "By putting them through the training, it creates a wellness ambassador embedded within their unit."

Subject matter experts from Kimbrough Ambulatory Care Center; National Capital Region Ready and Resilient Performance Center; Fort Meade Morale, Welfare and Recreation; Fort Meade Army Substance Abuse Program; Religious Support Service; and Financial Education Program Managers provided interactive briefs throughout the training. Topics included nutrition and performance fueling, mental skills and leadership, sleep hygiene and stress management, behavioral health, financial readiness, global installation resource education, and Army Combat Fitness Test coaching and grading.

One of the trainings included a hands-on cooking demonstration where participants learned how to make a quick and easy breakfast in the microwave. Leah Roberts, a dietitian at Kimbrough who led the demonstration in collaboration with the Fort Meade Alliance, said her goal was to uncomplicate healthy eating, get back to the basics and improve unit readiness.

"We focused heavily on base-centric assets to include the Kuhn Hall teaching kitchen, Freedom Inn Dining Facility, and the Commissary," Roberts said. "This allowed participants to be actively engaged in the steps one could take right here at Fort Meade to shop, prepare or acquire healthy food."

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Anthony Pio, a Mass Communications Foundations instructor at the Defense Information School, participated in the program so he could share the knowledge he learned with the health and holistic fitness council recently established at DINFOS.

"I think it's pivotal for service members to be well-rounded in their fitness," Pio said. "The base resources are going to be extremely useful ... Knowing that we [wellness ambassadors] can bring them [Marine students] and teach them 'here's how you can make healthy food in a barracks room, here's how you can go and better yourself as a service member and a junior service member,' and be able to walk them to the resources that they're going to have throughout their entire Marine Corps career."

Students who completed the course received certifications in exercise programming and height-and-weight taping.

Army Staff Sgt. Benjamin Bechtel, a Master Fitness Trainer with 742nd Bravo Company, participated in this program because he believed it was a good way to expand his knowledge base and better support his Soldiers in their fitness goals.

"As an MFT, [exercise programming and height-and-weight taping] are on the top of my list in my role," Bechtel said. "This is a way I can check myself to make sure I am on top of my game and that I can inform my noncommissioned officers to get them up to the right level and make sure we're passing this on to our Soldiers so they are aware of where they are standing and help them improve."

The next iteration of the training is scheduled for December. Austin-Jones said individuals interested in participating can contact the Fort Meade AFWC at 301-677-2006.

Annual Holistic Wellness Fair Returns To Aiken In A New Location

The Holistic Wellness Fair is coming back to Aiken on Sept. 23 at the Aiken Senior Life Services.

This will be the first year the festival has been hosted at the Aiken Senior Life Services building. It will run from 9 a.M. To 3 p.M. And admission is free.

The fair will include vendors from a variety of places from message therapists to reiki and energy work. This year will also be the first time food trucks will be featured.

"This year we'll have chiropractic, massage, acupuncture, Reiki and energy work, some sound therapy," Melissa Kitchings said. "...Homemade cleaning products and soaps, candles, jewelry, all kinds of stuff honestly."

More people are interested in learning about alternative health techniques, which has raised the demand for festivals like the Holistic Wellness Fair, Kitchings said.

"There just seems to be a good demand for it," she said. "More and more people are starting to want to have alternatives to traditional medical care, not that we ever want to discourage people going there, but we just want to provide some complementary services, and people seem to be very interested in those."

The fair was first started in 2017 as a way to raise awareness about holistic health, Kitchings said.

"We had a lot of people asking us who would provide those kinds of services," she said. "And we knew who they were, but nobody else did, so we wanted to kind of bring that awareness to the community."

This year's event is sponsored ABECA Naturals, Your CBD Store Aiken, Rising Wellness Center, Cleansy, Gerideau's Massage and Bodywork, Herbal Solutions, Soulshine Yoga & Wellness, That's My Nurse and Sol Himalayan Salt Cave & Spa.

The fair will be at 1310 E. Pine Log Road in Aiken on Saturday. For more information on the Holistic Wellness Fair, visit holisticwellnessfair.Org, visit them on Facebook or Instagram at @HolisticWellnessFair.

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