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038-066 Shortcuts_SU05 Carmel Magazine 4/24/13 3:37 PM Page 15 SHORTCUTS WELLNESS A Healthy Way to Spend the Day Dr. Craig Geiler envisioned thorough health exams for busy executives and visitors staying at nearby luxury hotels when he designed CHOMP's Monterey Program for Executive Health with Dr. Steven Packer. Clients receive blood tests, CT scans, fitness evaluations and more. group of local physicians have partnered with several luxury hotels battery of tests is performed. Vision, hearing, bone density, body composi- form The Monterey Program for Executive Health. The program's tagline is performed along with a CT scan of the chest and heart and an abdom- A and Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula (CHOMP) to is "World Class Medicine…World Class Destination," and offers a com- prehensive, full-day health screening boasting kid-glove treatment and per- sonalized service the envy of any spa. It's geared to busy executives and tion, thyroid and pulmonary function are analyzed. An electrocardiogram inal ultrasound. Dietary and fitness evaluations are performed by experts in those fields. At the end of the day, clients meet with Dr. Geiler or another physician others who desire a thoroughly detailed snapshot of the state of their to pore over a 32-page report outlining the results in great detail. And "Our focus is on making sure our clients feel comfortable," says Craig needs attention, there are specialists available for consultation," Geiler says. body's health. Geiler, M.D., a Monterey Internal Medicine physician who brainstormed because the screening takes place at the hospital, "if something is found that The program has so far been well received. "I simply could not be more the concept with CHOMP President and CEO Steven J. Packer, M.D. delighted that now on the Monterey Peninsula there is an opportunity for Beach Resorts, Monterey Plaza Hotel & Spa, Bernardus Lodge or Holman administers the most comprehensiveho program I have ever experienced." Out of town patients have a choice of fine accommodations: Pebble Ranch. On the morning of the screening, the client arrives to draw blood samples for analysis. After a healthy breakfast, he or she is whisked off to an area of the hospital specially set up for the service. There, a thorough 64 C ARMEL MAGAZINE•SPRING/SUMMER 2013 a complete health and wellness program," says one recent testee. "Dr. Geiler For more information about CHOMP's Executive Health Program or to schedule a screening, visit www.mpexecutivehealth.com. —Michael Chatfield