Transcript WORKWELL MISSOURI Improving productivity Managing your bottom line Presented by: Margie Meyer Manager, WorkWell Missouri [email protected] 573.884.8711 WorkWell Missouri.

WORKWELL MISSOURI
Improving productivity
Managing your bottom line
Presented by: Margie Meyer
Manager, WorkWell Missouri
[email protected]
573.884.8711
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MU Extension
MU Extension educates people to make their lives better
114 counties + St. Louis
4-H Youth Development
Nutrition and Health
Continuing Education
Agriculture and Natural Resources
Community Development
Business Development
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Healthy Lifestyle Initiative
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An initiative designed to be a partnership with communities
at the local level to achieve impact by improving the health of
Missouri communities
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Vision
Create communities that support the availability of healthy, affordable,
locally-produced food and safe, accessible physical activity
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Healthy Lifestyle Initiative Focus
Work with communities to create an environment that
“makes the healthy choice the easy choice”
Changing the community environment
 Fostering coalitions and networks
 Influencing policy and changing organizational practices
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Why a community driven approach?
Creates ownership by community residents
 Increases the chance for success
 Allows communities to tap their assets and use them with
efficiency and direction
 Creates numerous opportunities to partner, collaborate,
expand, and enrich initiatives
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Why target environment and policy changes?
Targeting the larger community environment is emerging as
the only practical way to address this issue on a large scale
 In order for individual behaviors to be sustained, they must be
able to be carried out in an environment that supports healthy
choices
 Increases the chance for success
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Pilot sites
Dent County
 Ralls County
 Boone County
 Lafayette County
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What is Worksite Wellness?
Worksite wellness refers to the education, activities, environmental and
policy changes that a worksite may do to promote healthy lifestyles
to employees and their families.
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Work Site Vision
Create a roadmap to encourage a healthier workforce that is
productive and competitive
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WorkWell Missouri Toolkit
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Why have a worksite wellness program?
How to get started
Assessing your worksite
Programming for your worksite
Making decisions – where to focus your efforts
Evaluating your program: Is it doing any good?
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Resources – Design your workforce program
Low resources
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Support physical activity breaks during the day
Send healthy food messages to employees
Medium resources
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Provide outdoor exercise areas like fields and trails for employee use
Offer local fruits and vegetables at the worksite
High resources
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Provide an on-site exercise facility
Provide incentives for participation in nutrition and/or weight management
activities
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Cape Girardeau WorkWell Model
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Cape Girardeau Health committee spent 6 months planning a
worksite wellness training for business owners
Recruited: Exercise Physiologists
Recruited: Wellness Directors from two local hospitals
“WorkWell initiative is a step by step training aimed at providing an individualized
approach to not only understanding what a wellness program is, but just how a few
people at your place of business can start the process”. Tim Arbeiter, Cape Chamber
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Safeway’s Story
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Safeway CEO believes utilizing market-based solutions can reduce
our nation’s health-care bill by 40%.
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The key to achieving these savings is health-care plans that reward
healthy behavior.
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As a self-insured employer, Safeway designed a plan in 2005 and
made improvements each year.
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During this four-year period, they kept their per capita health-care
costs flat. . .
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While most American companies’ costs increased 38% over the
same four years.
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Safeway borrowed from the well-tested automobile insurance model
that translated into premium differences among drivers.
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Safeway utilized a provision in the 1996 Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act that permits employers to differentiate premiums
based on behaviors.
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Safeway’s Healthy Measures program is building a culture of health and
fitness focused on:
Tobacco usage
Blood pressure
Healthy weight
Cholesterol levels
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Results
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Safeway’s obesity and smoking rates are 70% of the national
average.
Safeway’s health-care costs have been held constant.
Health premiums were reduced $780 for individuals and $1,560 for
families if they pass all four tests.
76% of non-union employees asked for more financial incentives to
reward healthy behaviors.
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What can you do as a Chamber?
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You can replicate Cape’s success
You can take ownership of worksite wellness in your community
You can coach businesses in your area
You can use the getting started materials
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Health starts where we work
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Meditate at lunch
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Partners
WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF
HEALTH SERVICES
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