The Best Wellness Portal Should Be Able To: 1. Conduct a confidential Personal Health Assessment 2. Educate (videos, books, webinars, biometric results) 3. Track program participation and activity 4. Make engagement easy with a mobile app 5. Track and administer incentives…
Boise School District Receives C. Everett Koop National Health Award as the Best Wellness Program in America WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- There is wide variability in the quality of workplace wellness efforts and not every health promotion program…
How to do Biometric Testing and Wellness Screening My neighbor knows that I am pretty good at fixing things. A while back, he asked me to look at his car that was spewing white smoke. He wanted to know if I…
Can Wellness Programs Improve Productivity? Poor employee productivity can be defined as physically being at work but not working. This type of poor productivity is called presenteeism. It is estimated that the cost associated with presenteeism due to poor employee…
Here's a quick peek at the reasons why school wellness programs are a smart school strategy: 1. Absenteeism Costs Schools More Than It Costs Other Worksites 2. Schools Need to Watch Their Finances More Closely Than Other Worksites 3. School…
To have any effect on the bottom line, employee health and wellness programs need to be able to improve employee health behaviors. Without improvements in nutrition, physical activity, controlling stress, and other health behaviors, most of the chronic diseases…
How Do You Choose the Right Biometric Screening Company? WellSteps does comprehensive wellness programming but we do not conduct biometric screenings. For the past 10 years we have helped our clients find and work with companies that do conduct screenings. This…
During the past few months the WellSteps team has created the most comprehensive list of workplace wellness programs ever produced. This is the complete list of companies that offer comprehensive wellness solutions. Health coaching companies, biometric screening vendors, corporate fitness…
In an effort to better control health care costs, brokers and consultants are advising groups to start wellness programs. They preach the message of wellness as a successful cost containment strategy. Though brokers talk about wellness, they rarely participate in wellness.…
How to Get Maximum Wellness Program Participation Without wellness program participation from employees it's impossible to have successful wellness outcomes. An indicator of a successful program is really good wellness program participation. This success can help justify the cost…
