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Toxic or Terrific? Six Startling Statistics On Why Your Company’s Culture Matters |
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8:45am |
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David Hunnicutt, Wellness Council of America |
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1:15pm |
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Jenn Lim, Delivering Happiness & Zappos |
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8 Innovations That Are Transforming Corporate Wellness Programs
11:30am | Intermediate |
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Rajiv Kumar, ShapeUp |
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Corporate wellness programs are rapidly changing with advances in technology and the transfer of consumer tools into the enterprise environment. This session will identify the major areas of innovation that are occurring in the wellness space, help you make sense of what’s going on, and learn how technology is solving some of the biggest challenges faced by wellness managers. |
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Against the Odds: Health Improvement Where Comfort Food Is King
10:00am | Fundamental |
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Dana Malstaff, Quantum Health Inc. |
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In Savannah, Georgia, southern comfort food and higher rates of diabetes and heart disease are prevalent; still, one of the area’s largest employers achieved remarkable health improvement results. This session will share detailed, long-term outcomes of their unique employee health improvement and diabetes management program. By conducting consumer research to understand the barriers to care, and leveraging adult learning styles, they created what employees wanted. As a result of their approach, this employer saw a 300% increase in participation in their diabetes program and overall claims savings of over 13% over 5 years. |
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Connect, Engage, and Change: What Every Company Should Know About Tobacco Cessation in the Workplace
10:00am | Intermediate |
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Yuki Yang, Alere Wellbeing |
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Learn about the unique challenges of nicotine addiction, the tools necessary to successfully overcome it, and best practices in creating a successful program that both reduces the cost of healthcare spending and creates engagement that leads to long term behavior change within a workforce. Participants will learn what nicotine addiction is and why a specialized program is necessary. In addition, attendees will learn how to design, launch, and implement a successful program which may include a premium differential, and best practices for engagement and long-term behavior change. |
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Fitness That Works: Simple Moves to Make Exercise Happen Between 9-5
10:00 & 11:30am | Fundamental |
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Sean Foy |
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The modern sedentary American workplace -or what has been referred to by some health experts as a “desk sentence”- is contributing more to the decline of our personal and corporate health and fitness than we ever imagined. Understanding that fit, healthy employees lead to fit, healthy companies—employers are desperately searching for effective solutions to “make fitness work.” The solution? What if you could offer a proven, turn-key program to help your employees move more throughout their work day? The answer starts with the Fitness That Works program, which focuses on seven “Simple Moves”. |
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Happy, Healthy, High Performing Employees: How to Increase Engagement in Your Wellness Program
10:00am | Advanced |
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Colleen Reilly, Nelnet Inc. |
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Traditional wellness approaches can bore, ignore and antagonize by focusing only on health costs. They fail to tap the potential of engaged, learning, high-performance employees. Why? Because they ignore the real-life cheeseburger-scarfing, long-commuting, stressed-hair-pulling human issues behind 75% of health costs. This session takes a refreshing well-being approach that’s 10 times better at predicting productivity than health-risk-only approaches and it is sustainable. Key takeaways from this session include: Learn how a Health & Productivity model can achieve higher engagement results as well as improved health risk factors; understand the importance of social networking and the role it plays within your worksite wellness program; discover how to put the Health & Productivity Model into practice through 3 case study examples focusing on weight management. |
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Influencing Health Decisions At Work
11:30am | Intermediate |
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Erin Ratelis, OptumHealth |
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Today, employers are focusing much of their behavior change efforts on the individual – building awareness, changing attitudes and getting their employees enrolled in wellness programs. However, insights from behavioral economics have taught us that people are pre-wired with cognitive biases that preclude them from taking health action. When it comes to changing complex health behaviors like over-eating and physical inactivity, we must search for new, practical interventions to directly and indirectly influence a person’s health decisions. Although employers have invested significant time and resources on influencing the person, they have yet to fully explore the many opportunities they have for influencing the physical work environment. We suggest that behavioral economics provides the key to some of these missed opportunities and present a new framework, which will enable employers to make healthy choices the path of least resistance at the workplace. |
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Interventions: One Size Does Not Fit All
2:30pm | Intermediate |
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Jessica Grossmeier, StayWell Health Management |
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Interventions are most effective when the right individuals are engaged in programs that are personalized, tailored, and focused on meeting participants where they are at on their health journey. Unfortunately, employers tend to take a one size fits all approach to getting individuals enrolled in programs. This presentation will draw from the published research on best practices and recently completed engagement research to inform employer approaches and expectations to effective engagement in programs. Objectives for this presentation will be to explain how organizational and population demographic differences inform expectations for health promotion program engagement and outcomes; differentiate between predictors of program enrollment, participation, and health improvement; and identify the most important best practices that can be applied for companies with specific age, health, and gender profiles. |
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Is Your Wellness Program Compliant: The Legal Environment of Worksite Wellness
2:30pm | Fundamental |
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Charles Stevens, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP |
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Do you cringe when you think of the complex legal minefield associated with wellness plans? Cringe no longer. This session will help you navigate the legal morass of wellness programs, clear up misconceptions, provide practical suggestions, and leave you feeling confident with the landscape of worksite wellness legalities so you can focus on generating results. The session will clarify legal issues wellness program coordinators face including the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Employee Retirement and Income Security Act, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act; plus, new laws on the horizon as well as the anticipated impact of health care reform. Hear hypothetical scenarios, learn to spot the legal issues, and understand best practices in addressing the law. |
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Population Health: Managing a Healthier Workforce
11:30am | Advanced |
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Kathy Menard-Rothe & Barbra Fagan, Froedtert Health |
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Key success factors for comprehensive wellness and population management programs include the ability to identify at-risk individuals, provide targeted interventions and evaluate outcomes. Froedtert Health will present examples of successful programming through onsite health coaching and the use of supportive data tools. The presentation will describe how these tools have been applied to help manage the health of their population. The presentation will also provide the audience with ideas on how they can use the concepts discussed to begin targeting interventions based on key metrics that are appropriate for their population. |
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Stress Less: Employees at Their Best!
2:30pm | Intermediate |
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Brooke Werneburg, Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center, Mayo Clinic |
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Do your employees struggle with maintaining their health because of overloaded lifestyles? Mayo Clinic’s employee wellness program will share a variety of approaches in stress management program design to fit the needs of several populations. Their comprehensive, outcome based program, Stress Less, has been shown to effectively reduce stress and improve quality of life. You will learn stress reduction strategies incorporating a multi-disciplinary approach including: positive thinking, gratitude, self-discovery and mental well-being. Join us in learning more about effective stress management programs and creative applications for your own organization. |
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Worksite Wellness and Onsite Primary Care: Natural Partners in Creating a Healthy Workforce
2:30pm | Intermediate |
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Raymond Zastrow, QuadMed |
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Onsite primary care, along with the patient-centered medical home model can provide the essential foundation for driving a culture of health and wellness within your organization. Learn how an onsite clinic can serve as the “hub” for worksite wellness. Discuss the role of technology and use of Telehealth to extend the clinic reach and serve as an additional channel for providing employees access to health and wellness resources. Review a case study that demonstrates the efficacy of a fully integrated health and wellness strategy driven from an onsite primary care platform. |