Healthiest State Employee Wellness Program Benefits
- You can integrate the
Healthiest State Employee wellness program into your daily operations today.
- The Healthiest State
Employee Wellness Program is already built and ready to implement but it can
also be customized and utilized with other wellness programming and activities.
- We will provide you with
the necessary tools (including personalized health assessment tools,
comprehensive online tracking tools, financial education and health resource
tools) to engage and educate your employees to help them make better health care
decisions. We will provide you with the necessary information and
communication materials to “get the message out” to your employees. This
along with additional resources, a step by step guide, the ability to host
internal challenges and reporting on employee utilization complete the package.
- It is FREE!
- You can involve employee
dependents in the Healthiest State Employee Wellness Program as well!
- The Washington Health
Foundation is a statewide non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that runs the
Healthiest State in the Nation Campaign. As a non-profit, WHF provides a
non-biased, trusted platform for its Healthiest State Employee Wellness Program.
- Participate in a statewide
health improvement effort: the Healthiest State in the Nation Campaign!
Your organization is not alone in the struggle to offer a competitive benefits
package to employees and attempt to control health care expenditures. The
Washington Health Foundation and its Healthiest State Campaign are unifying
organizations, individuals and leaders across our state to address these
concerns. The Healthiest State Campaign is creating a new culture of health in
Washington State. We believe it will take both collective responsibility in
creating healthy systems and individual responsibility in engaging in healthy
habits to make Washington the Healthiest State in the Nation. By participating
in this Campaign, you and your employees can be part of this cultural shift.
- You have access to numerous
employer benefits:
- The Employer Resource Guide is at your disposal to help you implement the Healthiest State Employee Wellness program.
- Your program is hosted and supported by the Washington Health
Foundation and Elements Health Plan staff. Contact us for assistance
at 206-438-6110.
- Contact us (206-438-6110 or HealthiestState@whf.org) for a FREE
yearly report on your employee utilization and health statistics.
- A benefits package. Looking to realign your health care
benefits? Elements Health Plans, the Healthiest State Employee
Wellness Program presenting partner, can help identify issues
affecting your health care costs and the health of your plan
participant population. Elements can also help identify trends to
help you make the best health benefit decisions for your employees.
Elements offers employers a proven way to get control of raising
health care costs while at the same time providing an improved
employee health benefits package. Visit our “Elements Health Plan
Information” page. (link to “Elements Health Plan Info” page below)
- The Healthiest State Employee Wellness Program offers multiple types of
motivation to get your employees involved!
- Fun & Friendly Competition: Your employees can compete against
each other and watch it all on our scoreboards at
www.HealthiestState.org. You can
set up teams and host an internal challenge
(Click here to see an example on our
scoreboard).
- Additionally, your organization can compete against
other organizations throughout the year and during our
challenges. Compete in—and win—the Healthiest Business
Challenge!
- Built-in Incentives: We offer great incentives to individuals
and organizations. In the past, the Healthiest State Campaign has
given away a Washington resort stay each week of our six-week long
Governor’s Health Bowl (September 18-November 1). We have awarded
Healthiest Business Challenge winners with a healthy breakfast for
100 employees. We have awarded individuals gift certificates, bikes,
gear and more.
- Goal setting: Each employee has his/her own unique home page
that not only welcomes each individual by name but keeps a record of
all of his/her health tracking activity. Each tracker is
individualized. You can set up employee teams and view how employees
are doing from your organizational page.
- Family, Friend and Community Integration: In addition to
offering a fun, team-based workplace competition, the Healthiest
State Campaign allows individuals to affiliate with other
organizations and schools that they are connected to (e.g., a
child’s school or an Alma Matter). Additionally, your employees can
set up “Champion teams” with family and friends so that the healthy
behaviors you are promoting at work can be integrated into personal
time. In fact, you might even think of creating a family and friends
team under your organization
- Employee Tools/Resources
- Health Resources
- Health Risk Assessments (SaluGenecists/Dr. Pizzorno): Provides you with an
in-depth analysis to give your employees the baseline information to help them
make informed choices about their lifestyle, current health issues, medications,
lab test results and diet.
- Mayo Clinic: This site helps your employees find
information fast on hundreds of diseases and conditions, offers information on
symptoms, and tells your employees how to handle many medical emergencies.
- Health Conditions:
According to the US Surgeon General over 75% of all health insurance claims are
lifestyle related. The more information and education we are presented
with helps us make informed and healthy lifestyle decisions. The
following are some of the chronic health conditions affecting many employees—and
driving company insurance claims. The Health Conditions tool provides essential
information on prevention of and treatment for a variety of conditions.
- Alcoholism; Allergies; Asthma; Breast Cancer; Depression; Diabetes;
Hypertension; Overweight; Smoking Cessation; and Stress.
- World’s Healthiest Foods: A non-profit information site with nutrition
information, healthy recipes and lots of great food and cooking tips.
- Financial
Health information: Offers a rich array of information in a step-by-step formula
that provides tools and all the forms your employees will need to gain more
control of their current and future finances.
- Preventive Care Screening
Schedule: A complete guide to the preventive care screens and immunizations that
your employees and their families need.
- Health Trackers
- Physical Activity Tracker: A daily and/or weekly way to
keep track of an individual’s activity. Five miles a day, or
10,000 steps, is the recommended amount of physical activity
and many activities count: walking from a bus to the office,
weight lifting, gardening, dancing, exercise and more. A
conversion chart helps employees convert steps, minutes or
specific activities into miles.
- Nutrition Tracker: Created in conjunction with
Registered Dieticians at the Washington State Dairy Council
using the USDA food pyramid. Employees can set goals each
week, such as portion control, eating breakfast or getting
enough vegetables.
- Sleep Tracker: Employees can use the sleep calculator to
assess how much they should sleep each night—and they can
log their progress toward meeting the recommended amount.
- Water Trackers: The water quiz helps individuals find
the Institute of Medicine’s recommendations, and set a
personal goal for daily water intake—and track their
progress.
- Weight Tracker: Whether an individual is trying to loose
weight, gain weight or maintain, he or she can manage
progress on our weight tracker.
- Dental Health Tracker: Recent research shows that good
dental health greatly affects overall health. This
tracker was created in conjunction with the Washington State
Dental Service Foundation, and allows employees to answer
questions dental health habits each week.
- Tobacco Cessation Tracker: This tracker encourages
employees to work with a health care provider and/or a
health educator to set a quit date and get prepared for it.
Once they are quit, they can stay quit by tracking their
cessation efforts! Use this tracker in conjunction with
information on the benefits and medications that your
organization provides. Additionally, provide information
about FREE tobacco cessation call centers (1-800-QUIT-NOW
etc). See our Wellness Resources page for more information
about tobacco cessation support services.
- New Years Resolution: A weekly question to assess how an
individual is progressing towards his or her yearly goal.
- Health Q & A: Employees can take a weekly quiz to learn more about health and
different aspects of our lives that affect our health.
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