St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) has received the Pennsylvania Recreation and Park Society’s (PRPS) Community Champion Award for its community partnership programs that promote nature’s public health benefits.

The award was presented at PRPS’s annual banquet March 31.

The community award is given to recognize individuals, groups or partner organizations that have made an outstanding contribution through a commitment to a parks- and recreation-related program, event or initiative, and that has stimulated local, regional, state or national interest in parks and recreation goals and objectives.

SLUHN received the award in recognition of five of its community partnerships:

• Get Your Tail on the Trail

• Walk with a Doc

• Summer Feeding

• Nature-based Placemaking-Walk Works

• Free Farmer’s Market, Quakertown

“It is extremely rewarding to receive an award based on the partnership between our health network and the Pennsylvania Recreation and Park Society,” said Kathy Ramson, DNP, RN, St. Luke’s University Health Network Director Community Health Clinical Operations.

“This collaboration has promoted our ability to execute programs designed to meet the needs of our population as identified though our Community Health Needs Assessment,” Ramson said.

Walk With a Doc Spring and Summer series started on National Walking Day, April 6, at The Park at 4th, Quakertown.

The Get Your Tail on the Trail (www.tailonthetrail.org) 165-mile challenge, starts May 1.