Meet the Bē Health & Well-Being® Navigator

Our Bē Health & Well-Being® navigator at Heartwood is Sarah Hanson. She  is the activator of all community health and well-being activities, training and consulting offered through the Bē Health program. The Bē Health navigator will keep you up to date with all the services available to you and your family and serve as your mentor and "coach" with the goal of leading residents to a healthier lifestyle. Sarah can also refer you to additional services unique to your health care needs. For example, if a resident is interested in nutritional counseling, the Bē Health navigator can arrange for a dietitian to come on site for a consultation. 

The Bē Health navigator is onsite at the new St. Joseph's/Candler Heartwood Campus located at 3866 Belfast Keller Road. (pictured above). To contact Sarah, you can email her at hansons@sjchs.org or call 912-675-0524.

About Sarah

Sarah Hanson is an experienced health and well-being educator with more than 15 years working in the industry. She recently left the City of Savannah where she served as the Health & Wellness Coordinator for more than 11 years to take on a new role as the Bē Health & Well-Being Navigator with St Joseph’s/Candler. She is skilled in disease management, occupational health and health and wellness coaching.

Sarah earned her Master's in Public Health from Armstrong Atlantic State University with a strong emphasis in resiliency and positive psychology. She has many tools to help increase resiliency and positivity toward increased success with lifestyle change. Sarah has received certifications from WellCoaches School of Coaching as a Certified Health and Wellness Coach (CHWC); National Commission for Health Education credentialing as a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES); YogaRenew as a certified Mindfulness Coach; and from Emory University Diabetes and Technical Center as a certified Lifestyle Coach for Diabetes Prevention. 

In addition, Sarah has completed a 95-hour Children's Yoga Training and is currently working on completion of a 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training. 

Sarah is passionate about health education and helping others reach their health goals. As a health educator and wellness coach, she believes in creating positive motivation through coaching conversation by focusing on participants’ individual strengths and internal resources to succeed in their goals. She has extensive experience in partnering, coaching and training individuals who are navigating their way with pre-existing conditions and multiple challenges to see opportunities where obstacles previously resided.

Sarah also “walks her talk” being a wellness coach and lives her life based on her values of faith, family, health, food and travel. She has a passion for running and has completed 14 ultra marathons, mostly in the mountains. Additionally, she enjoys obstacle course races, biking and yoga. For relaxation, she likes spending time with her family, yoga, reading and just being present.