Why should your company consider a wellness program?
By offering a wellness program or transforming the work environment into to one that promotes health, employers can take important steps to dramatically reduce health care costs and prevent unnecessary illness - making employees healthier and more productive. Some of the immediate benefits would include:
*Increased morale and loyalty
*Higher productivity
*Improved creativity
*Reduced absenteeism
*Reduced use of health care benefits
*Reduced workers compensation / disability
*Reduced Injuries
*Lower health care costs
Transforming
corporate culture
By making small changes in the work environment to include:
*Color Therapy
*Light Therapy
*On-site chair massages
*Holistic Health Assessments
*Nutritional Counseling
*Weight Loss Programs
By offering these services to employees, employers can significantly increase productivity, profitability, retention and most importantly, healthy, happy workers. I have received many success calls from employers who have used any one of these services.
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The Wellness Councils of America report that businesses with 50 or more employees have some form of health promotion program. Many companies find that medical costs can use up half of corporate profits because of unhealthy workers.
The Bottom Line :
Wellness programs stand out as the long-range answer for keeping employees well. Wellness in the workplace is healthcare reform that works.
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Every dollar invested in prevention could return substantial savings in medical treatment. By transforming the actual workplace environment into one having a positive effect on health and adopting a wellness program and offering lifestyle seminars, a company can take a leadership role in
maximizing the health and well being of every employee. Not only is this good for employees, but it can have a dramatic impact on a company's bottom line.
"Today, adults spend 60% of their waking hours at work! This makes the workplace and ideal opportunity for companies to take the initiative to promote health and wellness among it's employees. Successful companies depend on efficiency, productivity, and cost effectiveness. A healthy workforce is essential to the continued growth and prosperity, of any business," according to Dr. Lewis-Senior, a doctor that transforms workplace environments into environments that promote health and also provides wellness programs and lifestyle seminars based on the needs of a company.
Why should you choose Corporate Wellness?
- Health care costs and health insurance premiums continue to rise.
- Today, 78% of Americans describe their jobs as stressful. What is the price a company pays for stress in the workplace?
Consider this:
*Unnecessary absenteeism - (an estimate 1 million workers are absent every day due to stress).
*Increased accidents - (60% - 80% of accidents on the job are stress-related).
*Higher management costs - (40% of job turnover is due to stress).
*Reduced productivity
*Increased medical costs
As these findings clearly indicate, stress can have a devastating impact and exact a very real toll on any business when left unchecked.
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Employees are attempting to cope with continual increases by adopting disease management, case management and wellness programs, and some have redesigned plans to promote consumer-driven behavior. A large part of these health care costs can be directly linked to employee health habits and the workplace environment. It is possible for employers to contain and even reduce health care and insurance premium costs through the establishment of regular wellness programs, lifestyle seminars, and changes in the workplace environment into one providing a positive effect on the health of the employee.
Prevention vs. Treatment:
The most expensive way to handle health care is to do nothing or very little until a problem appears and then rely solely on treatment. Unfortunately, with most medical related problems, that is precisely what most people do. The least expensive way to handle health care is to maintain and insure good healthier by simply switching the focus to prevention. To use a simple analogy, it's like changing the oil in your car. We all know that changing the oil on a regular basis (prevention) is a lot cheaper than having to change the engine (treatment). Latest statistics show that 80% of diseases and illnesses in North America are preventable, accounting for eight of the nine leading causes of death (around 980,000 per year). The causes behind many of these deaths are preventable factors - such as sedentary habits, poor nutrition, and poor lifestyle choices.
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