The Inspired Workplace
It starts at the top. In the Conference Room the large table is flanked with stability ball chairs and a large water-cooler for the company issued personalized refillable water bottles frequently seen everywhere.
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Current Issue Artciles
Corporate Wellness
Marcia Reid: Bullying: What are the Myths Surrounding Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace?
Rose Gantner Ed.D.: Running a Wellness and Health Management Program? Where’s Your Certification?
Ria Duykers: Corporate Wellness & Executive Health Programs: What are the Benefits of Providing These Services?
Kathleen M. Gorman, MPH and Ross M. Miller, MD, MPH: Relative Influence of Modifiable Health Risks on Employer-Related Outcomes
Corporate Wellness Magazin: In this issue, we wanted to highlight one of our 2011 Corporate Wellness Leadership awardees for their innovative wellness initiatives.
Jennifer Turgiss : Healthy Workplaces: Leading Organizations Get Ready for June’s National Employee Wellness Month
Column
Kevin L. Shrake, FACHE: Healthcare Reform: Using Rebates to Turn Bills into Cash
Manish Nachnani: Social Media Health Revolution
Michael A. Schroeder: Group Captives: An Appealing Alternative
Sibyl C. Bogardus, JD: Bronze to Platinum Health Plans: What Will It Mean?
Dr. Gene Lindsey: ACOs: Healthcare’s Best Hope
Self Funding
Brian Black: Health and Wellness: Five Apps That Will Help You Lose Weight
Dennis Toohey: Controlling Benefit Cost and Spending By Creating Your Own Marketplace
Thomas E. Dreisinger, PhD, FACSM: Chronic Low Back and Neck Pain: An Epidemic Out of Control
Ronald J. Ozminkowski, Ph.D., and Seth Serxner, Ph.D./MPH: Program Reporting: Using the Right Process to Tell the Story
Voluntary Benefits
CJ Scarlet and Shirlita McFarland: Situational Coaching Offers Lasting Impact
Doug Ross: Long-Term Care Insurance: Helping Others by Helping Yourself
Dr. David Stoneback : Voluntary Benefits as an Employee Protection Strategy
By: Jonathan Spero, M.D.: Transforming a Traditional Occupational Health Center into a Total Employee Health Cost Containment Center
Editorial
Jonathan Edelheit, Editor in Chief: “Raising the Bar”
Feature
Take Control of Your Health™ Employers Helping Employees Make Good on New Year’s Resolutions
How did the practice of making New Year’s Resolutions start? It seems to have begun in pre-Christian times with moral changes such as being good to others.
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B.I.N.G.O…. and Safety Is It’s Name-O
How many of us in corporate America have grown tired of workers compensation claims? How many of us grow weary of the reasons why people become injured?
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Viking Range Uses Care Management Technology to Save on Health Costs
In November 2011, an employee at Greenwood, Mississippi-based kitchen appliance and cabinetry manufacturer Viking Range Corporation, who suffered from type-2 diabetes,
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Tennessee Overhauls Captive Insurance Law To Become National Leader
Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam signed a comprehensive overhaul of Tennessee's captive insurance law in June.
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Comparing the Caring.
I sat next to David’s bed in the AIDS hospice the last week of his life and told him that he was a beautiful man. “Thank you,”
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How Defined Contribution Health Benefits Help Employers Recruit and Retain Employees
It costs a typical employer the equivalent of 6-9 months in salary each time they have to replace a salaried employee
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Lost Work Time = Lost Revenue What are your employees legal and identity theft problems costing you and your company's bottom line?
Legal and identity theft services are now prized voluntary benefits. In the past four years, voluntary legal and identity theft plans have increased rapidly in worksites in the United States.
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Employer Assisted Care: Not Just for Children
In 1971, Arnold Hiatt, the then CEO of the Stride Rite Corporation, opened the first on-site childcare center, and revolutionized the way people balanced their work life with their home life.
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Financial and Legal Wellness Bolsters Employee Productivity & Loyalty
For employees, the state of the economy and the state of their
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Critical Illness Insurance
Based on statistics, we are more likely to survive cancer, heart attack, and stroke today due to advances in medical technology.
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2011 Leadership Awards
The Voluntary Benefits Association (VBA), in conjunction with the Voluntary Benefits Magazine (VBM),
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Going Beyond Eye-Popping Entertainment: 3D Technology Can Lead to Early Detection of Vision Problems
Today, 3D technology is everywhere. From movie theaters and televisions, to gaming systems and mobile devices, our exposure to 3D technology is becoming commonplace.
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The Importance of Quality Dental Insurance
Dental health refers to all aspects of health and functioning of our mouth, especially the teeth and gums.
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4 Ways Brokers are Overcoming Commission Cuts with Ancillary Benefits
Brokers do a lot more than just sell. They explain critical differences, explore benefit plans and insurance options, and find solutions for employees and employers.
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5 Compelling Reasons Why to Start Now
Companies that work hard to set themselves apart often attract and retain top talent by offering voluntary benefits such as health and wellness programs.
Read moreCorporate Wellness
Eat For Energy
Are you battling to bounce out of bed bright eyed and bushy tailed? Looking for more get-up-and-go to make it through 2012? Many of us may fall into the trap of not eating at all for long stretches of the day, breaking for high sugar, high fat snacks and then ending off with a really large supper.
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The New Bankruptcy
It is no secret that many people have contemplated bankruptcy due to the financial strain they are facing.
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Improving Health Plan Cost and MLR Attainment with eProcurement Why eProcurement for Health Plans?
eProcurement: A uniform and centrally controlled paperless, web-based enterprise process that tightly integrates procurement, accounts payable and accounting.
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Simplify Your Life to Reduce Your Stress
There's nothing simple about the typical American life. We work too hard, treat time like an enemy, amass too much stuff, and sit around too much watching TV while eating too much bad food.
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Surviving the STRESS of Downsizing
In a rapidly changing economy, corporations may have to reduce the size of the full-time workforce.
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The Year of Acceptance… Eating Well for Health & Happiness
Being healthy starts from within, which for most of us, self acceptance is hard to find. We can easily console our friends and family when a crisis hits.
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New Apps Improve Employee Wellness
Numerous studies show that improving employee wellness decreases employer healthcare costs. In addition, research directly correlates employee benefits with overall employee satisfaction.
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Creating a Culture of Wellness with Employee Outreach and Social Media
As more and more companies start to implement wellness programs to address the continued rise in health care costs and the need for healthier employees.
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10 Reasons Why Your Wellness Program Lacks Participation
This is the first installment of a 4 part series on a model for designing and managing a wellness program that gets measurable results.
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A Revolutionary Approach to Corporate Wellness
Getting older: It is an inevitable“disease” that plagues us all at some point, and for your executives,age can become their biggest competitor and your company’s biggest threat.
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Medical Self-Care: We Can’t Afford to Ignore It Workplace Wellness not meeting its potential
A comprehensive workplace wellness program can positively impact the wealth of businesses and nearly 60 percent have embraced this concept with aspirations to avoid the economic strain of the current health care crisis.
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Energy Boosters
We’ve all observed children playing. We watch for a second and then say, “Gee, I wish I had their energy.”
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Why New Year’s Should Be A Time for Corporate Wellness Resolutions
Around the country, motivation to train is never higher than on January 2nd. On-site company gyms are packed,
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American Crisis - Health of our Nation's Truck Drivers
In America, nearly 1 of every 15 people in the workforce is employed in the trucking industry, including over 7 million truck drivers on our roads.
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Love Assurance: Employee Satisfaction and Workplace Wellness
Since the 1970’s, our nation’s companies have been instituting wellness programs following concepts that Asian companies have been using successfully.
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