Advantages of Wellness Programs

The concern for employee health promotion is an increasing trend for American business. Why? the link between employee health promotion and the bottom line is clear and consistent.

Employers who integrate wellness in their overall objectives find they experience reduced absences, better employee morale, reduced health risks, and reduced healthcare costs.

The purpose of articles and posts on the website to is to encourage and help you launch your own Wellness Program. If you already have a wellness program, but are not receiving the results you expected, perhaps some ideas and best practices found on this website will help you and your staff members reap the benefits of a healthier and happier workforce.

At least 50% of healthcare expenditures are lifestyle-related, and as a result, potentially preventable. Yet despite the $5,000 an typical corporation spends on healthcare per employee each year, most corporations are spending less than 5% of that on biometric testings and prevention.

The most robust meta-evaluation of Wellness Program related research studies shows something very exciting! It shows that Wellness Programs are not only effective at helping to reverse the rising spiral of healthcare costs, but these health promotion programs are also becoming more effective.  The typical cost-benefit ratio has increased from 1 to 3 for earlier health promotion programs to 1 to 6 today.

Simply put, the typical reduction in healthcare costs, sick leave, disability costs, and workers’ compensation is more than 25 percent for well designed health promotion programs.  Company wellness provides a long-term approach for helping keep workers well.  The single most essential thing you are able to do for your workers is to begin a Wellness Program now.

We hope that by exploring this website and reading the many articles posted here that you’ll be better suited to start, maintain, improve and/or evaluate a wellness program.  If you ever have questions then we hope you’ll take a minute and contact us.  We’re happy to answer questions and even write articles that address the questions, concerns and/or comments we receive from our readers.