How Long until Employee Health and Wellness Pay off?

Health and Wellness programs generally do not reap immediate long term sustainable ROI.

The initial phases involve measuring baselines and developing a culture of wellness within the company among it management and employees. Yes, a few high risk individuals may be immediately identified. Changing behaviors is a gradual and consistent process at most of us realize, but we often forget these common sense realities when it comes controlling health care costs.

All the employees need to be involved in the health and wellness initiatives. Proper incentives are the cornerstone of making positive strides in a strong and cohesive health strategy. If you do not get most if not all the employees to participate, you are going to have a much more difficult time controlling costs, increasing productivity and other positive outcomes. Just like operational areas such as finance and marketing, you would not except only half of your objective.

Corporate Health - Where to Start?

I speak and meet with many companies and clients that are in the process of developing and health and wellness strategy. They often don't know where to start. They often start with health and preventative screenings. Without a strategy, these screenings don't reach the potential benefits.

The health screenings, which typically include Biometrics such as cholesterol and blood pressure screenings, as designed to help identify those at-risk for health conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and related conditions. The challenge is always to get those at-risk to participate. In a voluntary screening program, the majority of the participants are the health conscious percentage of the population rather than those at-risk.

In order to get the at-risk employees to participate, the health benefit strategy needs to address incentives to participate. The health care cost trends will be positively impacted by preventative health screenings and education before these at-risk before high utilizers of health care services. Our objective is to prevent the at-risk population from becoming high utilizing. The part of the population that is already in an unhealthy status can be managed. The most impact is achieved by preventing these health conditions before they occur rather than managing them once they are in that status. With proper health screenings, health education and development of a corporate health strategy, genuine savings will eventually materialize within several years of consistent company and management support.

Flu shots: Schedule your company flu shots now

Subject: Time is running out and so are available vaccination dates

I have good news and bad news. The good news is a record number of corporations have scheduled their fall employee flu vaccination event. The bad news is we’re running out of available dates. Oct. 30th is the last day we’ll be able to take reservations and by then choices will be extremely limited! Click here and schedule your corporate event now while there’s a choice of available dates.

Alan Kohll, President
Vaccination Services of America
Health Fairs of America
www.vsamerica.com
www.healthfairsamerica.com
888-434-4358
Flu Shots Nationwide

Flu Shots Nationwide

It’s that time of year again. Time to sign up your company for your annual employee flu vaccination event. Because so many companies have already signed up, available dates are being snapped up. I’m encouraging you to act now and not put it off. Oct. 30th is likely the last day we’ll be able to accept event registration. Don’t wait until the date(s) you want are taken? Click here and sing up now!

Alan Kohll, President
Vaccination Services of America
Health Fairs of America
www.vsamerica.com
www.healthfairsamerica.com
888-434-4358

Health and Benefit Strategy Consulting

Health Fairs of America has partnered with the Wellness Council of the Midlands (WELCOM). The most successful wellness council in the U.S. consisting of over 140 Omaha area companies representing well over 25% of the workforce.

This partnership provides additional expertise from member companies along with a road map for achieving a well workplace to increase productivity, improve employee health, help control increases in health care costs.

Alan Kohll
Health Fairs of America
Corporate Health Consulting Services
Health Fairs and Health Screenings Nationwide
888-434-4358 x 102
www.healthfairsamerica.com