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Don't know where to start on your Corporate Wellness Program?
The Wellness Council of America (WELCOA) has free resources to get you started!
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Wellness - Why Participate?
Let me first "pat The Starr Group on the back." We were the recipient of the 2011 Corporate Wellness Award at the BizTimes Milwaukee Fittest Exec Celebration. This was not related to the size of the company; simply, it was the company with the best overall wellness program in Southeastern Wisconsin.
I share this for a couple of reasons:
I am very proud of the accomplishment.We do know a thing or two about implementing a wellness program.
The Starr Group is the only Preferred Partner Agency in Wisconsin with access to the single most powerful wellness program that exists. Specifically, US Health Center (USHC- not any relation to United Health Care) has rewarded only one agency with this coveted honor and that means significant savings to YOU! This is the reason the program is so powerful:
Components of a Successful Wellness Program
Wellness programs are growing in popularity. More employers promote good health behaviors and more insurance carriers offer wellness programs along with their health benefit packages, often at no extra cost.
Many employers start small with smoking cessation, walking programs, or simply posting information about health related topics. Other employers, including The Starr Group, have developed multi-faceted wellness programs. The Starr Group program includes fitness, health risk assessments, bio-metric screenings and education in addition to a company-wide wellness program vision statement.
How Wellness Programs Manage and Measure Risk
It is often "soft" dollars, or the costs that are difficult to measure, that impact a company's bottom line.
An effective wellness program contains tools to collect data and measure results, which will identify those "soft" dollars. When the total Corporate Risk Burden (CRB) is managed, companies have more control over healthcare costs.
The Starr Group partners with US HealthCenter to offer StarrWellness. Our program includes the tools to help measure and manage total Corporate Risk Burden (CRB).
Pre-disease Risk + Lifestyle Risk + Productivity = CRB
StarrWellness offers health risk assessments and bio-metric screenings that help identify pre-disease risks for conditions such as lung cancer, coronary heart disease, back problems, hypertension, stroke, depression and diabetes.