Corporate Wellness

The cost of poor health to corporate America and what you can do about it.

Losses of $32 billion per year are related to premature illness associated with cardiovascular disease - high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes and obesity. Every year billions of dollars in productivity are lost as a result of employee sickness and disability. The average annual healthcare cost per person in the U.S. is more than $3,000. Preventable illness makes up approximately 70% of the total costs of illness.

Because many of these costs are directly linked to health habits, employers can take aggressive action toward containing costs by implementing corporate wellness programs.

Why your company should offer a Corporate Wellness Program:

• Reduced absenteeism
• Increased productivity
• Reduced medical claims
• Reduced Workers Compensation and rehabilitation costs
• Improve employee health practices and behavior
• Reduce employee turnover
• Retain and attract employees
• Reduce stress and anxiety
• Increase company morale
• Promote a better quality of life

Possible benefits of a Corporate Wellness Program:

• Possible decrease in Health Insurance Premium Costs
• Happier Employees
• Decrease in heart disease, lung disease, risk of diabetes
• Control high blood pressure and high cholesterol
• Control weight and reduce obesity risk
• Reduce depression and anxiety

For your company's purposes, an educated employee is a healthier, more productive and a more cost effective employee.

The health & fitness industries are growing at a rapid pace, yet according to the American Cancer Society over 1500 people are STILL dying every day of cancer and according to the American Heart Association approximately one million people are STILL dying of heart disease every year.

Taking vitamins, exercising and eating more fruits and vegetables is only part of the answer. But which vitamins would be best for you and which exercises would be best for you?

Whether you have 2 or 200,002 employees, healthy employees make a company profitable. When employees are out due to sickness or injury, they are not only non-productive, they are counter productive, because they drain profits. The same goes for those employees who come to work and do not work up to their capabilities due to sickness or injury. Depending on their sickness or injury, your medical costs will continue to rise and productivity will continue to decline causing further cuts in profits.

By implementing a simple and basic wellness program you should see productivity and morale go up and medical costs go down. Which all adds up to healthier and happier employees and greater net profits.

What is a Corporate Wellness Program?

In short it means: "The whole company is greater than the sum total of any one employee, but when one employee is not well and another and another and so on, not only is their productivity being compromised, the corporate bottom line is also being compromised." And rather than allowing each employee to shoulder the full responsibility for their own health, my program will assist them in achieving total, vibrant wellness by teaching them how to mobilize their in-born capacity for self healing.

Many companies have gyms and work out rooms for their employees. They may even provide seminars on how to lose weight, what foods to eat to improve their health and how to do various exercises, which is great, but not enough. Your employees must be educated on how to take advantage of their body's own natural ability to be healthy and maintain optimum health. Regardless of their current physical and mental condition.

Healthy employees can think more clearly, therefore, reducing mistakes and on the job accidents, which in turn can reduce Worker's Compensation claims. Healthy employees tend to work harder and have less tendency to call in sick due to illness or injury resulting in less frequent visits to the doctor/hospital and less dependence on prescription drugs, which can lower health insurance premiums.

Emphasis will be on the importance of pollution avoidance, clean air, pure water, whole foods, rest, exercise (both traditional and lymphatic), goal orientation, attitude, stress reduction techniques, and the program will also address the physical , spiritual , social and economic factors affecting over-all health and the proper use of whole food supplements (vitamin, nutritional, herbal...).

With a combination of group seminars and individual consultations, corporate wellness programs go beyond traditional and popular approaches to achieving better health.

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