Staff Wellness: Best Practices and Best Results

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• Staff Wellness Best Practices and Best Results

Kurt Rix - Manager, Health Education September
17, 2009
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health status
80
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Any Guesses?

• What of doctors visits are stress related?
• 75 80
• What are the drivers/causes?
• Anxiety, depression, gastrointestinal problems,
  musculoskeletal problems, etc.

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Productivity and Job Performance (2008)
Positive Correlation Between Job Performance and
Worksite Health Wellness Participation Rates
BCBSRI found that its highest performing
employees as measured by the BCBSRI employee
performance evaluation methodology were also the
most engaged in worksite health wellness
activities.
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Productivity Improvement Across YearsA Case
Study

• 3 years of engagement
• Significantly decreased of risk factors
• Significantly less productivity loss
• Cumulative savings of 333 per member
• Economic return 51

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Any Guesses?

• The U.S. healthcare system spends on average
  3,000 for treatment of illness for all citizens.
• How much do you think is spent on prevention?
• 1.21

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MuniBlue

• MuniBlue Advisor Assigned
• Advisor serves as a single point-of-contact
• Advisors help assess needs, develop strategies,
  and coordinate services
• Advisor embedded into municipal culture.
• Supports use of the HealthCare system, provides
  tools such as BCBSRI online trackers, PHAs,
  Health Education videos, etc.
• Topics - Stress/Weight Management, Wellness
  Stop-Bys, Self Care, and more
• Its a value-add!

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Any Guesses?

• How many teaspoons of sugar are there in a
  typical 12oz. Can of regular soda?
• 10-12 teaspoons
• 1 can per day 32 pounds per year!

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What can you do?

• By October 2012, ALL staff in RI schools will
  have access to wellness programs incorporating
  nutrition and physical activity education. To
  get started remember
• That Success starts at the top!!!
• To Support a culture of wellness
• To Ask for and attend wellness programs
• To Serve as a role model

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Favorite Wellness Quote

• Dr. Dee Eddington University of Michigan
  (Health Management Research Center)
• Take care of the people, and the return on
  investment will take care of itself.