How to Build a Wellness Program

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How to Build a Wellness Program
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How to Build a Wellness Program(That really
works)
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Getting Buy-in
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Where will employee health, health care, and
productivity be in 5 years?
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YOUR COMPANY DATA(health care cost data)
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YOUR COMPANY DATA(health care cost data)
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YOUR COMPANY DATA(pharmaceutical cost data)
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YOUR COMPANY DATA(absenteeism data)
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Your Company Data (percentages)
Red premiums, Yellow salaries, Green inflation
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YOUR COMPANY DATA(HRA data)
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Company specific data or national trend data
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• www.cdc.gov/brfss
• for local and regional health risk data

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Obesity Trends Among U.S. Adults2005
No Data lt10 1014
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Leading by Example
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Evidence That SupportsWorksite Health Promotion

• David Anderson, Ph.D. StayWell Health Management

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Return on Investment (ROI)
32 studies
14 studies
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Current Health and Productivity Expenditures

• medical benefits
• short and long term disability
• workers compensation
• disease management
• demand management
• absence management
• human resources

• employee relations
• staff recruitment and training
• employee assistance programs
• work/life
• organizational development
• health promotion

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How Do I Communicate with Employees?

• Multi-site locations
• Decentralized
• English as a second language
• No access to the web
• Spouses, significant others, and dependents

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Whats it going to cost?

• Good programs can cost 100-150 per employee per
  year
• What does your insurance company offer?
• What does your health care provider offer?
• Can it be done for free?

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What is The Wellness Program?
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anything that changes employee behavior

• Educate / create awareness
• Motivate
• Build skills
• Change the employees environment

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• Flyers
• Posters
• Email notifications
• Television/video programs
• Books

• Payroll stuffers
• Internet sites
• Magazines
• Lunch and learns
• Special speakers
• Newsletters

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Motivate

• Before/after stories in newsletters
• Incentives
• Extrinsic and intrinsic

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Impact of cash incentives
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What about HIPAA?

• Wellness program can discriminate based on health
  risk status provided.
• The amount is lt20 of health benefit
• Program must promote health
• Employees can try every year
• Provide an alternative way to get the award
• Disclose the award rules

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Motivate

• Before/after stories in newsletters
• Incentives
• Extrinsic and intrinsic
• Completion of HRAs
• Team competitions

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Build Skills (How do I do this?)

• How to overcome barriers
• How to strategies
• Goal setting, contracts
• Healthy substitutions
• Making healthy choices
• How to make healthy foods
• Finding inexpensive healthy foods

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Change the Environment

• Physical Environment
• Policy
• Culture

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Supportive Environments

• Physical environments
• Healthy food in cafeteria
• Healthy food in vending machines
• Farmers market
• Realistic work demands
• Opportunities to be physically active
• Walking paths
• Time to exercise
• Onsite shower or lockers

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• Smoke free air to breath at home
• Safe place to exercise
• Convenient access to healthy, inexpensive foods

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• Policies
• Medical coverage for preventive services
• Absenteeism policy that supports being healthy
• No smoking policies
• Flex time
• Time to be healthy
• Free from overly stressful work

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• Culture changes
• Take baby steps
• Get leadership on board
• Find the champions
• Integrate with other departments

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Integration throughout the company

• Form a wellness committee
• Work across departments
• Safety
• Medical
• EAP
• Facilities
• Benefits, HR etc

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How long will it take to get the program going?

• The planning process can take from 3-7 months
• Data collection, risk, health care costs,
  pharmaceuticals, behaviors
• Look at worksite health culture
• Understand the benefits package and how wellness
  fits in. What will the package look like with a
  wellness program?

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Whos going to do this?

• Time and resources requirements depends on number
  of employees, number of worksites, and scope of
  the program
• Internal staff, interns, or a new hire
• Vendors

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Is Big Brother watching?

• Secure, confidential data
• How hard should you push healthy behaviors?
• No food police or fitness freaks allowed

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• Whats the cost of doing nothing?

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