Archive for October, 2008
Summer Wellness
Wellness During the Summer
Wellness is important year-round; however if your staff members haven’t gotten on the Wellness bandwagon, then now is the perfect time to get them there.
Summer is an ideal time of year to get back into shape and improve overall Wellness. The weather is beautiful, staff members can get outside and they are [...]
Worksite Health and Wellness Programs in a Down Economy
Worksite Health and Wellness Programs and Healthcare Costs
Worksite Health and Wellness Programs are more important now than ever. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, with the troubles in the economy it seems that the costs of organization provided medical care keep continuing to grow and it doesn’t seem like it is going [...]
Worksite Health and Wellness Programs Result in a Healthier Bottom-lines
Worksite Health and Wellness Programs are an intelligient investment, at least according to Lincoln industries in Nebraska. CNN reported on this 565 employee company their committed investment in their worker’s wellness.
Worksite Health and Wellness Programs are part of company Culture
The Worksite Health and Wellness Programs, according the story, has been in place for 16 years [...]
Advantages of Worksite Health and Wellness Programs
Worksite Health and Wellness Programs Becoming Increasingly Popular
Worksite Health and Wellness Programs are Becoming Increasingly popular outside the worksite, showing the ever-increasing importance of disease prevention and health risk management. Private insurance businesses, as well as state Medicaid and Medicare offices are working on ways to improve the health of the people they insure in [...]
Worksite Health and Wellness Programs: The Bottom-Line Enhancer
Worksite Health and Wellness Programs are proven to improve productivity and lower medical care costs. For a business, that makes a difference in the bottom-line. Today, more than 81 percent of America’s businesses with 50 or more workers have some form of Worksite Health and Wellness Program with the most popular being exercise, tobaccos cessation [...]
Worksite Health and Wellness Program Tends
Corporations are no longer able to trim extra savings out of their health insurance programs, and most companies have been cost shifting, asking workers to cover more of their medical care costs. Health insurance costs continue to climb (10 percent or more per year) at 2-3 times the general inflation rate. With nowhere else to [...]
Beginninging a Worksite Health and Wellness Program
Worksite Health and Wellness Programs begin and end with individual health. Individuals, after all, are able to make decisions about maintaining and / or improving their health and wellbeing. Employee Worksite Health and Wellness Programs must therefore provide the tools and resources needed to assist and motivate individuals to actively participate in the program.
Individual health [...]
Worksite Health and Wellness Programs for Small Businesses
Studies suggest that for every $1 invested in Worksite Health and Wellness Programs, a company saves $3 to $5 in health and safety costs. Corporations that invest in Worksite Health and Wellness Programs reap the financial incentives through savings on medical care costs, disability pay, rates of absenteeism, turnover and safety problems.
worksites have already proven [...]
Why Have a Worksite Health and Wellness Program?
There are a number of reasons why a Worksite Health and Wellness Program is beneficial.
1. Enhanced Morale – When the organizational culture begins to change as a result the Worksite Health and Wellness Program, you and your workers may actually begin to see and feel a new level of energy within the company. Ultimately, one [...]
Assessment of Worksite Health and Wellness Programs
It is important to measure the effectiveness of all Worksite Health and Wellness Programs. There are a number of very simple ways to measure Worksite Health and Wellness Programs:
How many attended the corporate health and Worksite Health and Wellness Program, and was there participation or a visible level of interest?
Use a short and simple pen [...]
