Corporate Wellness Programs

 

 

Why is Worksite Wellness Important?

 

Worksite Wellness programs work.  Bottom line. Evidence shows that healthy employees miss fewer days of work, are more productive, and have lower healthcare costs (DHHS, 2002).  A wellness program can also add to employee benefits packages, encouraging employees to stay, reducing turnover, and improving worksite morale.

 

What is a Worksite Wellness Program?

 

The goals of our worksite wellness programs are to make the workplace environment healthier, to improve the health of individual employees, to reduce healthcare costs, and to increase employee value.

Healthy Investments offers a variety of customized programs to fit the specific needs of your business.  Whether you are a large company or a small business, we can make it work for you. 

They key components to our worksite wellness programs are to encourage employees to:

   1)   Be more physically active

   2)   Eat more nutritious foods

   3)   Live a tobacco free lifestyle

   4)   Reduce the effects of stress

   5)   Improve overall sense of wellness

Not only do our programs provide the resources for employees to live healthier lifestyles, but Healthy Investments will also work with your business to assess high priority needs and to monitor employee progress.

Healthy Investments will create a plan that works for your company. Our programs range from short-term consulting to get your program up and running, to long-term partnerships where we have a daily, weekly, or monthly presence in your office.

 

Here are some examples of what Healthy Investments can provide:


 

Healthcare Costs

 

Escalating healthcare costs are an area of great concern for individuals, families, and companies.   Chronic, largely preventable, diseases (such as diabetes heart disease, and some cancers) account for 75%-80& of all healthcare costs. 

A healthy employee has fewer health risks.  They spend less money on medical care due to chronic illnesses and serious health events than unhealthy employees.  In the long run, this leads to a reduction in healthcare costs for your company. 

Workplace wellness should also work hand-in-hand with your health benefits plan to create the best results. Workplace wellness is becoming a sustained business strategy that is literally tied to the fabric of the existing health benefits plan (WELCOA).  Assessing these connections and determining the most productive way to merge these area of your business is something Healthy Investments can do for you.

 

Human Capital/Employee Value

 

We know worksite wellness programs reduce healthcare costs for those employees who participate.  However, even more immediate and possibly, more important, to your business is the fact that unhealthy employees develop health issues that interfere with their ability to perform at a high level in the workplace (Welcoa, Lynch, 2002). 

Businesses know that human capital, the value of your employees, is a key component to a successful workplace.  Large and small companies work to increase human capital by offering workshops, professional development, and training programs.  If companies can “invest” in the human capital in other ways, the results can be even more expansive. 

By investing in workplace wellness programs, a business can have employees that are more functional at work.  They are absent less often, experience fewer illnesses and injuries, and return to the job quicker after an injury (welcoa, Lynch).  Employees who take part in worksite wellness programs are more satisfied with their job and are more likely to stay at the company longer as well. 

You can’t get much more to the “core” of business than that.

 

 

 

For more information about Healthy Investments contact:

 

Laurie Smith, owner/Exercise Physiologist

parlin@healthyinvestments-inc.com

614-361-4422