HEALTH AND WELLNESS INITIATIVES
A healthy lifestyle impacts every part of your life, including your work environment. Statscan reports that stress-related absences cost Canadian employers about $3.5 billion each year and that health care expenditures are nearly 50% greater for workers who report high levels of stress. The Blevins Insurance Group offers Health and Wellness Initiatives that:
- Improve general health and well-being
- Improve morale
- Improve productivity
- Increase employee retention
- Decrease absenteeism
- Decrease injuries
A Sanofi-aventis Health Care Survey in 2009 demonstrated that employers who offer Health and Wellness Programs have:
- more satisfied employees - 82% versus 77%
- health benefits plans that are rated as excellent or very good by 65% of their employees
- a greater percentage of employees - 66% versus 57% - who feel a sense of responsibility to help their employer control plan costs
Health and Wellness Initiatives may be comprised of many components:
We can keep your employees informed, educated, and motivated with Bi-monthly Newsletters. Focused on employee health and well-being, the newsletters can address issues including stress management, active living, health eating, smoking, addiction issues, and weight control.
Executive Health is a preventative service that offers a personalized approach to medicine. A specialized Executive Health physician will conduct a variety of medical tests and evaluate potential lifestyle risks.
A Dietician/Nutritionist will address the impact that food plays in our health and well-being - weight loss, weight gain, reducing high blood pressure, lowering cholesterol levels, regulating diabetes, preventing osteoporosis, improving our immune systems, increasing energy, reducing stress, healthy eating on the go, and accommodating shift work.
Massage has been documented as one of the oldest healing arts in the world and the benefits of massage therapies are wide ranging. Massage Therapy Clinics offer physical and emotional benefits - reduce stress and promote relaxation, help to relieve pain and stiffness, increase mobility, and rehabilitation from injuries.
Flu Shot Clinics will help to keep your workforce protected from the annual onslaught of the flu.
Diabetes Employer Programs can encompass preventative care - diabetes screening, regular blood sugar checks, nutritional information and health and drug benefits to cover testing supplies, glucose monitoring devices and supplies to keep blood sugar levels within an acceptable range.
Health Watch focuses on emotional health - anxiety, stress, depression, and burnout which result in absenteeism, disability, and increased health care costs.
We can measure the effectiveness of your Health and Wellness Initiatives with the Health Scorecard.
The social and economic benefits of Health and Wellness Initiatives are far reaching. Keeping employees healthy and happy makes good sense and is good for business.
Contact the Blevins Team for more information.
