a company program offering benefits, activities, or training, to improve and promote employees' health and fitness. A wellness program can include wellness benefits such as fitness training, company sponsored athletics and sports teams, health education, and life improvement classes. It also includes prevention of mental health problems by stress management.
Recently, Business & Health conducted a fax survey on wellness programs. One response was from General Dynamics, the aerospace firm in San Diego, Calif. The respondent mentioned his organization's seemingly uniqe wellness program--unique in part because the company spends zero dollars to finance it. We felt this...
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Employers are looking to wellness as a way to engage employees by adding value to benefit programs at work. Employees are responding with sixty-eight percent of American workers participating in onsite health screenings in 2005(1). Answering an increasing demand for wellness from both audiences, the Principal...
Tangerine Wellness, the first incentive-based corporate wellness program aimed at reducing the cost of healthcare for employers, has announced an agreement with Wachovia Insurance Services, a full-service brokerage and employee benefits consulting firm for mid- and large-size employers, to market the Tangerine Wellness program to clients in Wisconsin, as well...
DES MOINES, Iowa -- The Principal Financial GroupR, a leader in consumer driven healthcare and the nation's premier provider of employee benefits, announces Principal Wellness Company, a member of the Principal Financial Group. Formerly known as Molloy Wellness Company, Principal Wellness Company specializes in onsite health and wellness screenings including...
A well developed and comprehensive business strategy is critical to ensuring that an organization's overarching objectives are achieved. Of equal importance is the development of a health management strategy to aid in the achievement health and wellness objectives, and performance benchmarks as they align with the business strategy. A health...
An "MS Wellness" program is underway at BackBuilders in Ewing Township, the outpatient physical therapy facility wholly-owned by St. Lawrence Rehabilitation Center.
Wellness programs and employee wellness incentives continue to gain in popularity in the wake of unrelenting spikes in medical costs for businesses and patients. Seventy-five percent of employers now offer a wellness program, according to the Hay Group, a Wellness programs and employee wellness incentives continue to gain in popularity...
The health and happiness of your employees has a direct impact on your company's financial health. Even for small businesses where health insurance isn't an issue - because none is offered - but where absenteeism and productivity are. The good news is that small businesses have an inherent advantage when...
Coors Brewing Co. has been operating an employee wellness center since July 1981. Because the purpose of the firm's early wellness program was solely to promote employee well-being and primary care prevention, no effort was made to link the program with CCoors Brewing Co. has been operating an employee wellness...
Gaithersburg, MD. -- Sodexho USA, the contract management company based here, recently rolled out a wellness program to Drexel University in Philadelphia, where it is the provider of foodservice for the campus.
* The Hyatt Regency Maui Resort & Spa partnered with the Maui Wellness Institute to offer a weekly program at the hotel's Spa Moana called Lokahi: Wellness in Paradise. Sessions include A Journey to the Fountain of Youth, How to Manage Weight Without Dieting, and Omni-Rejuvination and Guided Imagery. The...
Discount airline JetBlue Airways Corp. selected minority-owned Business Health Services Inc., of Baltimore, a provider of corporate wellness services, to develop a new Employee Assistance Program for the New York-based air carrier's 8,000 employees. The program includes crisis response and assistance with child care and elder care, legal and financial...
In a survey on wellness programs conducted by Deloitte Consulting LLP and The ERISA Industry Committee ERIC, nearly two-thirds of respondents reported using wellness programs to improve employee health, and another one-third are considering such programs. The survey, sent to ERIC members and Deloitte Consulting's survey database, found only 5...
On the basis of a survey of more than 500 major U.S. employers, Hewitt Associates reported that the number of companies using wellness and disease management programs increased from 73 percent in 2004 to 83 percent in 2005. Thirty percent of employers offer incentives to encourage employee participation in wellness...
WAYNE, Pa. -- Employees at SunGard are lining up for voluntary individual health screenings at a series of wellness fairs. The health screenings are part of SunGard's Wellness Works initiative, aimed at helping SunGard employees lead and maintain healthy lifestyles. The program encourages employees to raise their health awareness by...
incentaHEALTH announced that health care giant Kaiser Permanente Colorado is offering its employees incentaHEALTH's weight loss and wellness program for the fifth consecutive year.
You could call Gordon Ondrisek a "StayWell groupie." The senior engineer at DaimlerChrysler regularly attends StayWell seminars, watches health videos from the on-site library, and even acts as a StayWell delegate to spread the word on wellness among his co-workers.
The newly developed Ultimate Wellness ProgramTM UWP from Substantial Solutions will be featured at the annual Connex International Benefits Forum, dedicated to resolving the escalating and unaffordable cost of medical care for corporations, to be held on March 4-6, 2007 at Amelia Island Plantation, Florida.
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