cmonfils | May 10, 2012
| Pilot Program to Build Healthier Workforce, Save Taxpayer Money
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (April 30, 2012) – State Controller John Chiang, State Treasurer Bill Lockyer, the Department of Personnel Administration, the California Public Employees’ Retirement Systems (CalPERS) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1000, in partnership with Kaiser, The California Endowment and HealthCorps ®, today announced a pilot state government workplace wellness program that will show how investments in health both improve lives and save money. |
http://tcenews.calendow.org/pr/tce/state-officials-launch-health-232881.aspx
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cmonfils | May 10, 2012
NEW YORK — U.S. hospitals are ripping out wall-mounted toilets and replacing them with floor models to better support obese patients. The Federal Transit Administration wants buses to be tested for the impact of heavier riders on steering and braking. Cars are burning nearly a billion gallons of gasoline more a year than if passengers weighed what they did in 1960.
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cmonfils | May 10, 2012
In the effort to make workers healthier, employers and insurers have dangled carrots. They’ve threatened with sticks. Now, they are trying games.
A growing number of workplace programs are borrowing techniques from digital games in an effort to encourage regular exercise and foster healthy eating habits. The idea is that competitive drive—sparked by online leader boards, peer pressure, digital rewards and real-world prizes—can get people to improve their overall health.
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cmonfils | April 25, 2012
Amidst a backdrop of national health care reform and a sluggish economy, Illinois businesses continue to seek ways to control health care costs without shifting premium increases onto already overburdened employees.
Employee wellness programs are one strategy that has emerged in the last decade as a potentially positive way to improve employee wellness and productivity while keeping a lid on health care costs.
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cmonfils | April 24, 2012
EVANSTON, IL — April 17, 2012 — Economy/jobs still top the list of issues of greatest importance to Americans, but concern over health care ranks number two, followed by taxes, education, terrorism and energy. This is according to new Health Care 2012 research released by Krames StayWell in collaboration with Klein & Partners, providing an evaluation of consumer opinions and attitudes on a wide range of health care issues.
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cmonfils | April 24, 2012
James P. Moriarty, MSc, and colleagues of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., analyzed the incremental costs of smoking and obesity among Mayo Clinic employees and retirees who had continuous health insurance coverage between 2001 and 2007. They found that both obesity and smoking were associated with excess health care costs.
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cmonfils | April 24, 2012
Oxon Hill, Md.— A Chrysler Group LLC official said Monday the automaker is keeping its health care costs in check by emphasizing preventive care and wellness — and urging workers and spouses to get annual physicals.
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cmonfils | April 16, 2012
Most health benefit plans include some kind of wellness program. As costs rise, plan administrators hope that their wellness programs will help stem and reduce rising health plan costs. Plan administrators might harbor over-optimistic expectations of what a wellness initiative can deliver, however.
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cmonfils | April 11, 2012
ROSELAND, N.J., April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — A new ADP® survey shows that wellness programs are one of the best ways for employers to promote a healthy workforce, contain rising healthcare expenses, and generate productivity among their employees.
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cmonfils | April 5, 2012
Once a year, employees of the Swiss Village Retirement Community in Berne, Ind., have a checkup that will help determine how much they pay for health coverage. Those who don’t smoke, aren’t obese and whose blood pressure and cholesterol fall below specific levels get to shave as much as $2,000 off their annual health insurance deductible.
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cmonfils | April 3, 2012
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took a critical step to reinvigorate the fight against tobacco use by launching the government’s first-ever paid, nationwide media campaign to encourage smokers to quit – and to prevent children from starting.
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cmonfils | March 27, 2012
It’s too costly with too few results, they say. Advocates insist it’s too soon to draw any conclusions on effectiveness.
An ambitious program intended to help Minnesotans slim down, eat nutritious food and ditch unhealthy habits is losing momentum and financial support, and officials caution that a goal of saving nearly $1.9 billion in future health care costs is slipping out of reach.
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cmonfils | March 27, 2012
Organizations’ health and wellness offerings have expanded beyond traditional programs that focus primarily on physical health. Integrated well-being programs now include mental and emotional health, financial health, work/life effectiveness and stress reduction, according to WorldatWork’s 2012 survey report Total Rewards and Employee Well-Being.
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cmonfils | March 27, 2012
If your organization doesn’t have a wellness program in place yet, you may feel as if you’re behind the curve. Most employers have thought about implementing a wellness program, and many have been encouraged to do so by consultants who promise that a good wellness program will lower health care costs and increase productivity.
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cmonfils | March 26, 2012
Most U.S. companies plan to increase the dollar value of the incentives they offer employees to participate in health improvement programs in 2012, according to an employer survey conducted by Fidelity Investments and the not-for-profit National Business Group on Health.
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