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| What if you could tackle rising health care costs and still have your employees jump out of bed to get to work in the morning? See Wellness for Law Firms below to get valuable information on the benefits of wellness programs
(whether you are a law firm or not)!
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| 18th Annual Art & Science of Health Promotion Conference |
| Recess Owner Tanya Barham Discusses The Fun Factor: Maximizing ROI |
The American Journal of Health Promotion presents
the 18th Annual Art & Science of Health Promotion Conference
Maximizing ROI in Health Promotion: Improving Health, Reducing Costs
Core Conference: March 5-8, 2008
Intensive Training Seminars: March 3-4 and March 8, 2008
San Diego Convention Center | San Diego, CA
The Fun Factor: Maximize ROI by making effective, science-based programs fun.
Do topics like "Controlling Diabetes Risk" inspire you to think positively about your life and health? No? Recess' surveys of corporate employees show they want wellness programs that are fun and easy to understand. Meanwhile, employers
want to reduce costs associated with poor health.
Are the two mutually exclusive? Of course not.
In order for people to adopt lifelong, healthy change they must see that change as rewarding and do-able within the practical constraints of their daily lives. In order for health promotion to see results, an organization must use
evidence-based methods, performance metrics, and incentives. Come to this session to learn how to manage wellness programs that effectively create ROI using: metrics, health risk monitoring, benefits analysis, and employee surveys, but
that also support organizational strategy by designing, marketing, and implementing programs that participants see as fun.
Tanya presents on March 6 at 2:00-3:15.
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| Looking for Ways to Boost Employee Wellness? |
| Combat Winter Illness! |
With the winter months comes increased employee absences due to illness. Want to help your co-workers avoid colds, flus and other bugs?
Try a 50 class package by Recess!
Choose from yoga, pilates and Tai Chi to cardio and group training.
Package includes:
- 50 group fitness classes a year in any discipline we offer.
- Choosing your own days and times with simple online booking.
- 60 day year end "Don't use it? Don't lose it." grace period.
- "Recess Approved Fun Workplace" seal on your recruitment site.
We've done classes between cubes, in hallways, and lobbies. No corporate gym needed.
Give the gift of health to your employess for only $340 a month!
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Unless you've been living in a cave for the past couple of years, you are probably painfully aware of how damaging the impact of health care costs are on your firm's bottom line.
CAN WELLNESS PROGRAMS REALLY HELP?
SHPS estimates that the financial impacts of behavioral health programs such as wellness and disease management can decrease the average health trend by 30% more than health plan redesign, consumer advocacy or benefits administration
combined. Wellness programs have been shown time and time again to be effective at reducing costs; however, the wide range in outcomes suggests that proper implementation is key to sustaining results. That is to say, the most effective
wellness programs reduce costs by doing two things:
1. Ensure that high and medium risk employees show measurable reductions in the number and severity of their health risks and that low risk employees stay at a low level of risk.
2. Ensure that a majority of the workforce is actively participating in a comprehensive and ongoing worksite wellness program geared at reducing a variety of health risks (smoking, diet and inactivity, alcohol, stress).
The difference between the most comprehensive and aggressively managed health and wellness programs and the least aggressive programs is significant as much as $1,500 per employee per year. As firms grow, the impact this makes on the
bottom line could be the difference between having enough wiggle room to fuel growth and stagnation.
COMPARISON SHOP
Whether you use an in-house expert or an outside consultant, the most critical component of your wellness program takes place before you spend a dime. Stakeholders from all levels of your firm should sit down and discuss the program's
goals.
Are you most interested in reducing health care costs? If so then what are your firm's strategic health risk factors? Are you hoping to use wellness as a way to woo and retain talent? Then how do you plan to measure the perceived benefit?
No organization has an unlimited budget to devote. Thinking about all of the ways you want wellness to work for you will go a long way in taking the next step toward evaluating what kind of programs will give you the most bang for your
buck.
When something as simple as walking three hours a week at 2–2.9 miles per hour cuts the risk of dying from breast cancer in half, how can you not choose to help employees get serious about transforming their health? Focusing on what
counts, that is, making healthy choices seem fun, easy and do-able, will make a world of difference for your firm and the lives of the people who work there.
The above excerpts were taken from an article written by Tanya Barham that appeared in The Bridge, November 2007 issue.
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