Health & Wellness
Wellness programs are based on the belief that unhealthy lifestyles can be changed with the right support structure. Whether the issues involve smoking cessation, stress management, obesity and depression, etc. Targeted programs based on the latest advances in behavioral health research and technology are providing employers with increasingly effective and affordable methods for improving workforce health and productivity.
CBG will work with you to create a customized, cost-effective wellness program to complement your employee benefit program. The goal is to make the program a seamless component of the underlying plan while simultaneously fostering improved health and outcomes for your members. A few things to consider are as follows:
Why Invest in a Wellness Program?
- Chronic disease, which is largely preventable accounts for about 80% of the burden of disease / illness and 90% of all medical costs.
- Preventable illnesses and chronic disease accounts for eight of the nine leading causes of death.
- The United States spends more on health care than any other industrialized nation in the world and yet, in many respects, it’s citizens are not the healthiest.
- Medical care costs in the United States exceed 14% of the gross domestic product
Steps to Starting a Wellness Program
- Capture senior management support for the wellness program
- Build a wellness program team
- Assess the needs of your company and employees
- Create a wellness program vision, mission and outcomes
- Develop a comprehensive and strategic wellness program plan
- Choose wellness program actions
- Identify an incentive and reward strategy for the wellness program
- Communicate to employees about the wellness program
- Evaluate wellness program efforts and modify strategies
Critical Wellness Program Success Factors
- Top management support
- Maximize participation in the program
- Personalized & tailored programs
- Make it fun
- Evaluation & reporting
- Active account management & visibility
Incentives
- Plan Design
- Effective & Frequent Communications
Primary focus of a wellness program
- Improve health
- Create culture that supports health
- Assist employees in being consumers instead of users of the health care system
Key components of a wellness program
- Assessment, identification & early identification
- Demand management/information on demand
- Medical self-care education
- Health coaching
- Disease management
- Prenatal risk management
- Medical management integration
- Regular evaluation and reporting
Making it all work together
- Enhance workforce health and productivity and contribute to employer financial healt
- Complete integration to provide the most effective approach for managing potentially costly acute and chronic conditions
- Solutions to reduce costs, increase employee care and provide a better work environment