Corporate Wellness Blog

The backbone of wellness programming at the worksite is medical testing. It is the first major activity a corporation should do when first beginning a wellness program.

Biometric screening is often used combined with the administration of a HRA .

The most effective way to screen is to utilize a health specialist trained in wellness screening techniques and counseling to privately and individually assess participants.

This wellness professional takes a brief health history and measures blood pressure (BP) and cholesterol. With computerized cholesterol desktop analyzers, results are acquired in about four minutes.

Immediate feedback, consultation, and educational materials are provided. for those identified at-risk, follow-up appointments can be scheduled at this time.  The whole process takes about twenty minutes per individual.

The screening also provides an immediate opportunity to register participants in various health promotion programs based on their interests and identified health risks.

Biometric screening can be done each year and used to monitoring health risks within the workplace.

A biometric testing program needs to provide multiple opportunities for participation.  The service must be provided for all the various shifts of a business.  The screening program must be conducted in highly visible areas so the process could be observed.

Reluctant employees often like to be able to see what the wellness program is about before they participate. When wellness screeners are not busy, they should perform outreach going to areas where employees gather and attempt to recruit employees.

When well-planned and promoted, medical screening can attract participation rates of 60 percent to 100 percent. These high participation rates have a positive impact on upper management producing support for further health promotion programming.