Kettering Workers' Care
Wellness Programs
Wellness Works, and the University of Michigan (UM) are leading the way in research of workplace wellness. The following principles from their research and Kettering Workers' Care wellness programs will help you lead your employees to live a longer, healthier, and happier life.
A comprehensive health risk appraisal (HRA) is needed to determine high risk factors before you can implement an effective worksite wellness program. The HRA identifies health needs for the company, establishes benchmarks for showing change, and allows you to connect employee health needs with specific opportunities for improvement and change.
The more risks a person has the higher the healthcare claims. Use the number of health risks to stratify risk in your organization.
Absenteeism shows the same relationship to risks as medical costs - the more risks a person has, the higher the number of "work lost" days claimed.
If the number of health risks goes down, so do costs. As risks go up, so does health care costs. To manage costs, manage risks.
Risk combinations and the number of risks present are the major predictors of total healthcare costs.
Costs go up twice as fast with an increase in risks than they go down with lowered risks. Thus, low-risk maintenance (health promotion and prevention) is an important strategy and offers more potential for cost savings and positive return on investment (ROI) than risk reduction and disease management.
The HRA overall wellness scores for individuals and company-wide are good benchmarks for measuring changes in healthcare costs as well as changes in health status.
Cost containment is closely related to participation in your wellness program. If you are serious about healthcare cost containment and improving health in the workplace, design your program to attract at least 80% of your workforce. Also plan to include as many spouses and dependents as possible for maximum impact.
Pam Koester Wellness Coordinator
2023 Springboro West
Dayton, Ohio 45439
(937) 297-3480
A comprehensive wellness program designed to decrease healthcare costs stratifies risks for all employees in a company and provides:
- Low-risk maintenance (keep healthy people healthy)
- Risk interventions for those with risk factors
- Disease Management to minimize complications of chronic health conditions
- Focuses on the whole person
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Kettering Workers' Care South
333 Conover Drive
Franklin, OH 45005
Phone: (937) 746-8795
Fax: (937) 746-7062
Kettering Workers' Care Central
2023 Springboro West
Dayton, OH 45439
Phone: (937) 293-7770
Fax: (937) 293-9982
Kettering Workers' Care North
8701 Old Troy Pike
Huber Heights, OH 45424
Phone: (937) 237-6231
Fax: (937) 237-6221
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