Corporate Wellness Programs Corporate wellness programs are critical to the fiscal fitness of organizations in the United States today. Corporate wellness programs vary in their methods, but the end goals are the same: decrease medical costs and increase employee productivity. Healthcare costs now consume over 50% of corporate profits and continue to increase at nearly 12% a year (Powell, 1999, p.15). This dramatic rise in costs has caused employers
ADVANTAGES According to Hareyah (2009), healthier employees will spend less time away from work; this can be the result of an effective wellness program. Sick employees who continue to present themselves at work can have a negative effect on employee morale. A company wellness program can improve the overall health and wellbeing of your employees. This can contribute to a decrease in presenteeism, and effectively increase employee morale. An ill employee can also cause other employees to fall
The Month by Month Wellness Guide to a Healthy 2008! Health No Comments » When the New Year kicks in, do you start thinking about all the healthy things you should have been doing, but didn t in the year that just ended? Then you re like most of us. Procrastination is the commonest crime most of us are guilty of when it comes to scheduling wellness checks and adopting healthy lifestyles. Here we ve created a month-wise checklist to make this coming New Year s wellness resolution more achievable
exercise. Along with not receiving their daily amounts of exercise, poor nutrition habits and strain due to work, your employees are facing major health problems like high cholesterol and hypertension. My co-workers and I believe having a worksite wellness program will help improve your employee’s health status and lower their need for medication, which can lead to lower fees your company has to pay. The prevalence of high cholesterol and hypertension are higher in individuals who have low physical
There is a heightened focus on maintaining good health and the many benefits that come as a result. Increasingly, more companies are opting to implement wellness programs to help support and facilitate their employees in achieving better health habits. Types of programs offered include smoking cessation, weight and stress management, and access to on-site resources like health fairs, seminars, and counseling with registered dietitians. Results of healthy employees also help the employer by reducing
INTRODUCTION Health and wellness in the workplace is crucial to business success. Increasingly, it is recognized that the workplace itself has a powerful affect on people’s health. When people are satisfied with their job, they are more productive and tend to be healthier. When employees feel that the environment at work is negative, they feel stressed. Stress has a large impact on employee mental and physical health, and in turn, on productivity. Companies that promote healthy lifestyle habits
I decided to go to the Wellness Center of Antioch College. I like this place because I am a very active person but this time I chose to give it a closer look.I walked to the Wellness Center and the building was not so impressive when I saw it.The place looked like a big,squared and old brick building. The building have some white windows that gave the installations a unique style.Before entering I saw a garden outside with little flowers of different colors that are attractive to the eyesight.
What is wellness? “Wellness is an active process of becoming aware of and making choices toward a healthy life. Wellness is also a process for change and growth” (Health Topic – What is wellness?). To have acceptable wellness you should have an equal amount of social, emotional/mental, and physical health. I, myself, believe that I have an okay wellness, I mean not like full wellness but just enough to pass I'll say. But how am I living in wellness? There are different ways of
Van Tat Instructor: Eric Colon-Cortes SEVEN DIMENSIONS OF WELLNESS Wellness is much more than merely physical health, exercise or nutrition. It is the full integration of states of physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, interpersonal, environmental and occupational wellness. Each of these seven dimensions act and interact in a way that contributes to our own quality of life. Disruption of any wellness can lead to the imbalance of the whole well being. Family life style has a big
K. Strategic Plan for Comprehensive Health/Wellness/Prevention in your Clinic 1. The Issue • Creating a comprehensive health/wellness/prevention program for patient population 50 years and older 2. The Assumptions • Unsolved a. Increases rehospitalization of patients, which impacts reimbursement rates. b. Creates opportunities for lawsuits and litigations arising from claims of alleged negligence. c. Creates dissatisfied clients with decrease rates of referrals. • Solved a. Decreases rates of