Worksite Wellness Programs Work

Worksite wellness programs are ready and available to fit your business and get your business fit.

 

 

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1. Worksite Wellness Programs Can Use Your Insurance Plan 

Most insurance companies have a preventive health benefit for their members. You should tap into this source for information about wellness funding.

There are benefit offers for each member, spouses and dependents, $200-500 dollars can be used for age and gender appropriate cancer screenings such as, Pap smears, PSA and mammograms.

These worksite wellness benefits can also include routine immunizations and annual physical exams. Because they are a benefit they cost your employees very little, most don’t even require office co-pays.

 2. Worksite Wellness Programs Create Benefits

This extra money is your new health wellness budget.  Start communicating with your employees about your new worksite wellness incentive plan.

Employees that participate in a variety of your wellness activities can actually get $100-200 back at the end of the year.

Some worksites like to split this new cost between the employee and the employer. This extra money is your wellness budget.

3. Worksite Wellness Programs Policies And Environmental Changes

You can create a healthy environment and implement worksite wellness policies that impact a wide variety of health behaviors and habits.

The Checklist to Change:

(at the “tools” link at) www.wellsteps.com

This site will help you pick a few things your worksite can do to create a worksite culture that promotes rather than discourages healthy living.

4. Using Right Worksite Wellness Program Messaging

Market the message about your business. Communication will impact how successful your wellness programs can be. Use the right communication messages. Worksite wellness programs have a dual outcome. They can transform lives by improving health and they can impact a worksite’s bottom line. Create a worksite wellness culture.

5. Worksite Wellness Programs Have Free Community Resources

These organizations can provide some great programming you can use.

• County health departments
• Chambers of commerce
• Health care providers

You can use them to help put together a health fair, sign up worksite softball teams or other sporting teams.

Find speakers who will come to your site and teach employees about different health topics.

 

Here’s To Your Worksite Wellness Programs Being Successful

Every ROI calculation is made up of the investment (cost) and the return (the financial benefit). To get a good return on investment you need either a low investment or a big return.

Highlighting low-cost efforts is much more appealing when the economy is struggling or management isn’t ready to adequately fund a wellness effort.

http://www.welcoa.org/freeresources/pdf/top_5_strategies.pdf

For the full comprehensive Wellness Council Of America Special Report Simply “click” on the link above.