How Corporations Can Benefit
Health N Wellness Solutions will have direct and measurable benefits to your company’s bottom line profits. In a time when recruiting and retaining qualified productive employees is becoming increasingly difficult, the establishment of a health and wellness program indicates to the employee you care about their current and future health and well-being and are willing to invest in them as an individual.
Employees who embrace this program and begin to incorporate the health enhancing actions recommended will naturally help to support every member of their family. This lowers risk of exposure to health claims by family members and lost time from work due to your employees needing to help an ill family member.
Measurable Results
- A reduction of future health insurance costs based on your group’s current rating
- A reduction in employee absences due to illness
- Increased employee productivity
- Employee awareness & responsibility in sharing lowering health care costs
- Preservation of employee health insurance benefits
- This program is the next logical step to take in addition to safety or injury prevention systems you currently utilize. Just as safety and injury prevention can slow and control your cost of workers compensation insurance, a program of this type has significant impact on the cost of your health care benefits.
- Statistics indicate that as your work force continues to age; 7 out of 10 of your employees will end up being diagnosed with cardiovascular disease, cancer or diabetes. Loss of productivity and the cost of treatment will become a major burden on everyone involved. Many of your younger employees already exhibit the early stages of these disease processes, such as elevated blood pressure, high cholesterol, poorly regulated blood sugar, obesity, or regular use of prescription medication and poor physical conditioning.
Here are two letters of “measurable results” from satisfied corporations noting the Health N Wellness Solutions program really works:
Consider These Facts
- The three foremost behaviors leaving people prone to developing chronic illness as listed in The Journal of the American Medical Association are tobacco use, poor diets and lack of exercise. All of these are preventable. All employees know that smoking is not healthy. But there’s so much confusion about what is proper diet, what is proper exercise, and ways to help you incorporate these into lifestyles to get maximum results with a minimum of effort.
- The cost of medical care for people with chronic illness accounts for 74% of the nation’s multi-trillion dollar medical cost. The dollar cost in the future is going to be immensely higher.
- The estimated direct and indirect costs for diabetes are over $132 billion per year. Statistics by the CDC shows that many of your employees may already have undiagnosed diabetes, are at high risk of developing diabetes, or already have diabetes and are costing your health plan thousand of dollars per year. With a well-established health and wellness program diabetes can be prevented and well managed with minimal cost in both dollars and lost productivity by personnel.
- In 2001, approximately $300 billion was spent on all cardiovascular diseases. Over $129 billion of lost productivity was due to cardiovascular disease.
- The direct costs associated with physical inactivity alone was nearly $76 billion dollars in the year 2000.
How Employees Benefit
Each employee and their family members will benefit by obtaining better health and by doing so incur savings of hundreds, if not thousands of dollars when remaining healthy. By not having to pay higher deductibles and higher co-payments associated with doctors visits, and possibly hospital stays, health and wellness programs are a win/win solution to rising health care costs.
Measurable Results
- A feeling of increased vitality, energy and well-being
- The ability to work in a much more focused and productive manner
- The understanding that their employer cares about them as an individual and their family
- Improved appearance and self assurance resulting in higher work performances
Health N Wellness Solutions provides a winning program for all involved. It helps the employer save money, increase profits, control health care costs, retain valuable current employees, recruit health conscious and progressive new employees and increase productivity throughout the company. It helps the employee by ensuring their health, helping them become more productive in both their professional and private lives, saves them money on health care expenses, and assures them a healthy, productive and bright future.
Can a Health and Wellness Program Really Work for Us?
Read the Case Studies:
The following statistics are real; however, no names are listed to protect the privacy of the participants.
36 year old female:
Patient was initially diagnosed in February of 2007 as diabetic due to her participation in her company sponsored wellness plan. Prior to this screening sponsored by her employer she had no idea that she had diabetes. In February 2007 her blood sugar level was 145 ( below 100 is considered ideal) and by April of 2008 her blood sugar was 98.
In February 2007 her weight was 195 lbs. In April of 2008 her weight was down to 176 lbs.
She also demonstrated improved cholesterol and blood lipid balance.
Patient followed diet and exercise recommendations and also took recommended nutritional supplements.
Patient continues to show improvement and is working on further weight reduction and stabilization of blood sugar.
46 year old male:
In October of 2003, his blood sugar was 106 ( below 100 is considered ideal) and by December 2005, his blood sugar was 87.
The patient’s weight in November 2003 was 319 lbs. and by January 2006 his weight was 221 lbs.; a loss of 98 lbs.
His body fat percentage went from 63% to 51%.
His cholesterol/HDL Ratio in October 2003 was 5.3 (below 3.1 is considered ideal) and in December 2005 his ratio was 4.3. This is a significant improvement.
His C Reactive Protein in October of 2003 was 30.7. Elevated CRP is considered a major risk towards the development of cardiovascular disease. Below 3.0 is considered ideal. In December of 2005 his CRP level was reduced down to 5.6.
Overall – with decreased weight, decrease body fat mass, and improved Cholesterol/HDL Ratio, improved blood sugar regulation and marked decrease in CRP, her cardiovascular risk is significantly reduced.
45 year old female:
In September of 2006 this patient’s weight was 139 lbs. By March 2008 her weight was down to 118 lbs. Her body fat mass went from 38% down to a very healthy 29%.
Review of her blood work analysis revealed the tendency towards reactive hypoglycemia (also known as low blood sugar). She is now showing significant improvement as demonstrated by the weight loss and improved body composition in addition to increased energy throughout the day.
This patient was also severely anemic in September 2007. In July 2008, a re-evaluation of her blood work revealed normal red blood cell health.
By following diet recommendations, exercise recommendations and the utilization of nutritional supplements based on her specific needs, she is now experiencing dramatic improvements in overall health and continues to improve.
46 year old male:
In November 2003 his weight was 177 lbs. and his body fat mass was 39%. In November 2004, his weight went down to 158 lbs. and body fat mass was 33%.
His CRP-C Reactive Protein was measured at 6.26 in October 2003. Below 3.0 is considered ideal. In October 2004 it was measured at 2.36.
His HDL (good cholesterol) was 62 in October 2003. In October 2004 it was up to 72. That represents a 13.8% improvement.
Weight-loss combined with improved body fat mass, reduction in CRP and improved HDL represents a significant improvement in reduction of this man’s cardiovascular risk as well as reduced risk to the development of diabetes.
44 year old female:
In October 2003, her weight was 177 lbs., her body fat mass was 39%. In September 2006, her weight was 161 lbs. and her body fat mass was 33%.
In October 2003, her CRP was 13.0. Ideal for CRP is below 3.0. In October 2004, her CRP 2.68.
In October 2003, her HDL (good cholesterol) was measured at 43. Above 55 is considered ideal. In October 2004 HDL was up to 64.
Once again, patient education and demonstration of this patient’s risk factors motivated her to improve her diet, increase her exercise level and utilize nutritional supplements based on her individual and unique needs and as a result significantly reduced her risk of disease.
