AccentHealth is America's

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 largest point-of-care TV network created specifically for patients in medical waiting rooms. The AccentHealth program reaches 8.5 million viewers monthly in 11,500 waiting rooms nationwide.

Since 1995, AccentHealth has been providing health TV programming produced by CNN

CNN

Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...

. The monthly program is co-hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Sanjay Gupta

Sanjay Gupta is an American neurosurgeon and an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine and associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia....

, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent and Robin Meade, CNN’s Morning Express

Morning Express with Robin Meade

Morning Express with Robin Meade is a morning television news program that airs on the HLN television network in the United States.-About the show:...

 Anchor and features educational

Health education

Health education is the profession of educating people about health. Areas within this profession encompass environmental health, physical health, social health, emotional health, intellectual health, and spiritual health...

 health content on topics such as medical breakthroughs, seasonal health, heart health, parenting

Parenting

Parenting is the process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood...

, nutrition

Nutrition

Nutrition is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with a healthy diet....

, and fitness

Physical fitness

Physical fitness comprises two related concepts: general fitness , and specific fitness...

.

AccentHealth’s program and materials are designed to inform patients and provide entertainment. Through the support of sponsors, some of whom are pharmaceutical companies

Pharmacy

Pharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs...

, AccentHealth is able to provide this programming to physician

Physician

A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

's offices at no-cost.