SPRING PLACE — Michele Fraser has a very personal reason for working to improve her health — last April she had a heart attack.
“I’m on a low cholesterol, low sodium diet now,” she said.
Employees could soon find it easier to participate in corporate wellness initiatives, thanks to a new MasterCard debit card from IntelliSpend. In a statement to reporters, IntelliSpend CEO Darryl Hutson announced that his company would make its MasterCard Wellness Prepaid Card available to corporate clients in the first quarter of 2011.
ConvergenceHealth announced today that they are expanding their industry leading wellness technology solutions through a merger with San Diego based WellVentures LLC. This merger combines in-depth resources in strategic wellness consulting and program design to dramatically improve participation, utilization and outcomes for our clients.
Corporate wellness programs are becoming a strategy to reduce employer health care costs without driving away employees, but experts say other benefits of these programs are more valuable in the long run.
St. Luke's Health System will present the Siouxland Chapter of Society for Human Resource Management's monthly program from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday in Room 1 at St. Luke's Regional Medical Center.
Although the Lee County School District has attracted some of their employees to participate in the Employee Wellness Program, which promotes and supports a healthy environment and lifestyle, they are seeking to engage more participation through a possible incentive program.
There are many different types of health conditions and illnesses, and their journeys to wellness are never quite the same. But one universal commonality is that once patients understand what kind of illness they have, they move into the mind-set of wanting to know how to best treat it, deal with it, and get back to "normal" life. The long course to diagnosis is suddenly over and the patient is left with the need to expedite their road to health.
Smart Communications Inc. has won an Excellence Award from Asia’s premier award-giving body on corporate social responsibility
(CSR) for its employee wellness program.“Live Smart: Healthy U, Wealthy U, Happy U” was among the 13 awardees chosen from 141 entries from 99 companies in 15 countries. The award under the Best Workplace Practices category was given at the recent 9th Asian CSR Awards held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
A new National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH) website on value-based purchasing features case studies and other content authored by the Care Continuum Alliance to help employers establish workplace health promotion programs.
In an effort to promote better health among students, faculty and staff, University President David Daniel and Senior Vice President for Business Affairs Calvin D. Jamison will help kick off the Live Healthy North Texas 100-day Challenge by leading a walk across campus Thursday, Jan. 20.