How One Broker Got Lower Insurance Rates Playing the Wellness Card This is a story about a real brokerage firm that made the decision to embrace wellness. It started with the question, "Why offer a wellness program?" and what happened as a…
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Here's a quick peek at the reasons why school wellness programs are a smart school strategy. There are 3.7 million people who work in schools. Schools are the single largest employer in the United States. Even the federal government only…
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 employees…
Outcomes-based wellness programs are effective. Do them wrong and you can destroy employee morale. Here is all you need to do them right.
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 wellness program into an engagement machine? Here's a few employee health and wellness program ideas and tips that may take your program to the next level. Do you know why only 11% of…
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…
What is a Health-Contingent Wellness Program? Health-contingent wellness programs is a wellness incentive program based on health risks. A health-contingent wellness program is one in which employees must A) meet a health standard or B) meet a reasonable alternative standard…
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…
Here are the best employee wellness program examples available anywhere. Use them to start a wellness program or make an existing one better.