Improving Your Employees' Health Will Improve Your Bottom Line
Protecting a company's largest investment
Personnel is often a company's largest investment. Since most employers pay the larger portion of their team members' health care costs, that investment can be quite substantial. Medical costs can be as much as half of corporate expenses. To keep costs in line, employers and their team members are joining forces to improve team member health.
How TriHealth is helping
Our Corporate Health division partners with more than 4,000 employers to customize programs that improve team member health and help rein in costs. Our partners have found that healthy team members are generally more productive and more satisfied with their jobs, have improved safety records, and file fewer medical claims.
An ounce of prevention
With chronic diseases on the rise in Greater Cincinnati, managing long-term health care costs starts with prevention. Medical data shows that people with a higher body mass index are more likely to develop costly and debilitating diseases such as heart disease and diabetes. a team member who exercises regularly and follows a diet high in fresh fruits and vegetables and low in fat exhibits a lower risk of these diseases.
Developing a wellness culture
Investing in a team member's health shows how much an organization cares. Wellness programs not only help the team member directly, they have a secondary benefit for their family members as well. However, wellness cannot be only a human resources initiative. Valuing health must be integral to an organization's culture for team members to adopt a personal commitment to wellness.
Getting started
Cincinnati businesses can build prevention-based cultures and healthier team members. Instituting workplace wellness programs such as health-risk assessments, tobacco cessation and nutrition eduction, and administering on-site flu vaccines for team members and their families is a great place to start. To improve productivity and life satisfaction, nurture physical and psychological health in your team members as well.