UnitedHealthcare Recognizes Employers for Successful Worksite Wellness Programs
July 28 2015 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
UnitedHealthcare has announced the winners of its “Well
Deserved” award, an annual honor given to employers that have
implemented innovative, industry-leading worksite wellness programs
that helped improve their employees’ health and well-being.
Award winners offered a variety of innovative wellness
initiatives such as bilingual nurse liaisons, free yoga classes,
weight loss challenges, incentives such as gift cards and premium
reductions, and onsite flu shots and mammography screenings.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
worksite wellness programs “can improve employee satisfaction,
reduce stress, decrease absenteeism and increase productivity.”
UnitedHealthcare data reveal that worksite wellness programs may
result in lower medical costs and better primary and preventive
health care decisions for employees who participate.
“UnitedHealthcare congratulates these companies for encouraging
a culture of health at their workplaces and helping their employees
live healthier lives,” said Carol Calvin, RN, MS, CPQH,
UnitedHealthcare’s national director of health strategies. “A
healthier and more engaged workforce can lead to better health, as
well as increased employee satisfaction and productivity.”
A recent employer survey conducted by the National Business
Group on Health and Fidelity Investments revealed that 79 percent
of employers surveyed will offer incentives in 2015, compared with
63 percent in 2010. About 95 percent of employers plan to expand or
maintain investment in health improvement programs.
This is UnitedHealthcare’s seventh year of recognizing employer
customers with Well Deserved awards for their outstanding health
and wellness programs, working with an external broker review panel
to review and judge all applicants.
Among the Well Deserved award winners are American Greetings,
based in Cleveland, and Graebel Companies, based in Aurora, Colo.
Both employers have won the “Well Deserved” award twice and were
presented with a Golden Apple award to honor this multiyear
distinction.
First-time Well Deserved award winners include:
- American Hotel Register Company –
Vernon Hills, Ill.
- Bellin Health – Green Bay, Wis.
- Holland & Hart LLP – Denver,
Colo.
- OCLC – Dublin, Ohio
- Medline – Mundelein, Ill.
- MGIC Investment Corp. – Milwaukee,
Wis.
- Orbital ATK – Dulles, Va.
- School District of Waukesha – Waukesha,
Wis.
- SIRVA – Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.
Honorable Mention recipients include:
- Bricker & Eckler LLP – Columbus,
Ohio
- Cuyahoga County – Cleveland, Ohio
- Garden City Group, LLC – Lake Success,
N.Y.
- J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc., –
Neenah, Wis.
- Sadoff & Rudoy Industries – Fond Du
Lac, Wis.
- The Advisory Board Company –
Washington, D.C.
- The Florida League of Cities –
Fla.
- Westfield Group – Westfield Center,
Ohio
About
UnitedHealthcareUnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping
people nationwide live healthier lives by simplifying the health
care experience, meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and
sustaining trusted relationships with care providers. The company
offers the full spectrum of health benefit programs for
individuals, employers, military service members, retirees and
their families, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and
contracts directly with more than 850,000 physicians and care
professionals, and 6,000 hospitals and other care facilities
nationwide. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and
well-being company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare at
uhc.com or follow @myUHC on Twitter.
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UnitedHealthcareWill Holman,
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