Corporate Wellness Blog

The concern for employee health promotion is an increasing trend for American corporation. Why? the link between employee health promotion and the bottom line is clear and consistent.

Companys who integrate wellness in their overall objectives find they experience lowered absences, better morale, lowered health risks, and lowered healthcare costs.

The purpose of this guide to is to encourage and help you launch your own Wellness Program. When you already have a wellness program, but are not receiving the results you expected, perhaps some ideas and best practices in this toolkit will help you and your workers reap the benefits of a healthier workforce.

At least 50 percent of healthcare expenditures are lifestyle-related, and as a result, potentially preventable. Yet despite the $5,000 an typical corporation spends on healthcare per staff member each year, most corporations are spending less than 5 percent of that on medical testings and prevention.

The most robust meta-evaluation of Health Promotion Program studies shows something very exciting! It shows that Health Promotion Programs are not only effective at helping to reverse the rising spiral of health care costs, but these wellness programs are also becoming more effective.  The average cost-benefit ratio has increased from 1 – 3 for earlier wellness programs to 1 – 6 today.

Simply put, the typical reduction in health care costs, sick leave, disability costs, and workers’ compensation is more than 25 percent for well designed health promotion programs.

Corporate health promotion provides a long-term approach for helping keep employees well.  The single most vital thing you are able to do for your employees is to start a Health Promotion Program now.