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• LOWER HEALTH CARE COSTS
• REDUCE ABSENTEEISM
• HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY
• REDUCE USE OF HEALTH CARE BENEFITS
• REDUCE WORKERS'S COMPENSATION AND DISABILITY MANAGEMENT COSTS
• REDUCED INJURYS
• INCREASED MORALE AND LOYALTY

"I lost a hundred and fifty two pounds. I have more energy than before I started the Thin&Healthy Program, and I feel GREAT!! It's like having a brand new life again."   ~ Scott Thurston

"We're saving more money in families and employees reducing their risk than it costs to run the wellness program. It's a nominal cost when you look at how fast health care costs are rising."
Pamela Witting, Manager of Wellness and Disability Services, Steelcase

Worksite Wellness Works

Today, more than 81% of American's businesses with 50 or more employee’s have some form of worksite wellness program, the most popular being exercise, stop-smoking classes, back-care programs, and stress management. Most employers offer wellness programs simply because they think the benefit is worth the cost. Yet business leaders continue to ask themselves how to control huge annual increases in health insurance premiums and health care costs.

For many companies, medical costs can consume half of corporate profits. For some companies, it's more than half. Some employers look to cost-sharing, cost-shifting, managed-care plans, risk ratings, and cash-based rebates or incentives. But these methods merely shift costs. Only worksite health promotion stands out as the long-term answer for keeping employees well in the first place, avoiding reactive medical costs.

Worksite wellness is heath care reform that works. Results from America's finest companies summarized here, are reason enough to think about an investment in your most important assets – your employees – and the impact this investment can have on your bottom line. In one study, national assessments showed that sick leave dropped 33.4% as a direct result of a wellness program. Worker's Compensation dropped 31.7% as shown in the Browne study. In a study done by Aldana, $3.60 was returned for every dollar spent on wellness.

Providence General Hospital

Providence General Hospital, a member of the Wellness Councils of America, in Everett, Wash., saved an estimated $1.5 million or a cost-benefit ratio of 1 to 4.24 over the three years of an outcomes-based employee health benefits program called the Wellness Challenge. By offering financial incentives to employees who demonstrate responsibility for their:

• health benefits
• lower medical claims
• less absenteeism
• improved health habits

DuPont Co (Well Workplace Gold in Delaware)

• Each dollar invested in workplace health promotion yielded $1.42 over two years in lower absenteeism costs at DuPont Co.
• Absences from illness unrelated to the job among 45,000 blue-collar workers dropped 14% at 41 industrial sites where the health promotion program was offered, compared with a 5.8% decline at 19 sites where it was not.

The Travelers Corporation

• The Travelers Corporation claims a $3.40 return for every dollar invested in health promotion, yielding total corporate savings of $146 million in benefits costs. Sick leave was reduced 19% during the four-year study.
• In addition to improving the overall health of 36,000 employees and retirees by reducing poor health habits and increasing good ones, The Travelers realized cost savings by decreasing the number of unnecessary visits to a doctor and emergency rooms.
• In a similar but smaller study, members of a Travelers fitness center were absent from work significantly fewer days than nonmembers.