The health and chronic disease prevention centers of America are now America's worksites. There's not a single group in America that does more to promote health and improve the health behaviors of our population than worksites. This presents a challenge…
Want to know how to transform your employee wellness program into an engagement machine? Here's a few employee wellness program ideas and tips that may take your program to the next level. Do you know why only 11% of Californians…
Health coach companies work with wellness programs. Of all the activities that happen within a wellness program, health coaching is the most expensive. Any time employees spend considerable time one-on-one with a health professional there will be a cost. Since it…
Before discussing how to develop a health-contingent wellness program, a little background is needed. Why do workplace wellness programs even exist? The primary reason that workplace wellness program exist is to improve employee health and reduce employee-related expenses, especially healthcare…
To be effective, when you start health contingent wellness programs, you should do two things well. First, the program should help improve the health of all employees, especially those with elevated health risks. Second, the program should help the healthy…
Each year the C. Everett Koop Health Project identifies the nation's most effective wellness program and presents it with the Koop Award. This year the Koop Award for the nations best wellness programs has been awarded to Boise School District and…
What is Health and Wellness Software? Wellness programs can use web-based tools to help organize and administer a wellness program. These web-based computer systems are considered health and wellness software. Historically a corporate wellness program had been nothing more than a…
Employee wellness programs can use a variety of strategies to help improve employee health. Here are 50 employee wellness program examples for physical activity, nutrition, and tobacco cessation that have been used by hundreds of worksites. Not every example may…
Wearable devices have the potential to undo much of the good created by corporate health programs over the past few decades. It is a highly concerning trend. Every day our WellSteps sales experts are asked how employers can use wearable…
So you want a wellness job as a corporate wellness coordinator. How do you find such a wellness job? Wouldn’t it be great if somebody would just publish directions to make it easier for you to get a corporate wellness…