A successful wellness program is more than offering blood screenings or educational seminars . A successful wellness program should give comprehensive results to your employees and measurable changes to the company's bottom line. There are several common results that a successful wellness program should provide:
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Lower healthcare premiums/claim costs
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Reduced lost hours due to illness
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Identify employees at high risk
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Increased employee morale
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Motivate changes in employee's lifestyles
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Overall measurable saving and increased productivity to the company
To accomplish these desirable outcomes and have a successful wellness program it takes two simple variables. First, it takes the employer offering a real opportunity for employees to participate in a wellness program. A real opportunity is being able to not only assess risk factors of disease, but more importantly detecting life threatening disease that have progressed from the existing risk factors that are detected. Secondly, it takes results that will motivate the employee to make positive changes to their life style, thus, improving their productivity both personal and professional.
Cardio Scan by Stroke Detection Plus
The Cardio Scan Difference
The biggest challenge to traditional wellness programs has always been motivating the employee to implement life style changes that would lower their risk of chronic disease. Stroke Detection Plus has proven through on going employee wellness that the best motivator to change an employee's life style is to identify and show the employee that they are not only at risk but show them the early onset of the disease. Cardioscan is the only wellness program that offers diagnostic screening that can provide this evidence. We know through our vast experience that our four step process to disease prevention is the best system to avoid chronic Arterial disease.
Identification of disease
First, through our on-site screening we identify the presents of disease through ultrasound imaging. We take a series of pictures and measurements to determine the level of disease in the arteries and vessels.
Education
Second, we provide the employee information on the behaviors that increases their risk of chronic illness and on strategies to lower their risk of disease progression.
Individual follow-up consultation
Third, we provide individual follow-up consultation for those employee's found to be at high risk of chronic disease. This includes providing information on behavior modification, and ensuring that employee's understand their results and are following the recommendations of our radiologists.
Target analysis
The company will receive a comprehensive analysis of the risk factors that are most prevalent in their workforce. This allows the company to target future intervention programs that will lower their workforces risk of chronic disease. This in turn will lower future claims and premiums.
Why Cardio Scan?
In 1992, heart disease killed more Americans than did lung, colon, prostate and breast cancer combined,(1) accounting for more than 40 percent of the nation's deaths.(2) Most of those deaths followed long periods of disability and repeated hospitalization, driving the total cost of heart disease near the hundred-billion-dollar mark for medical care alone.(3) When the indirect cost of lost productivity due to disability is factored in, the price tag climbs to a staggering $137.7 billion.(2)
Just how much of this bill does business wind up footing? The answer: More than you think. Although heart disease rates are highest among retiree's and Medicare recipients, people between the ages of 45 and 65--some of the prime working years--are also hard hit. Forty-five percent of heart attacks and 15 percent of heart disease deaths are in people under age 65.(2)
Although two-thirds of heart attack victims fail to recover completely, 88 percent of those in the under-65 group are able to return to work.(2) Moreover, the number of workers with heart disease is likely to increase as the population ages and as treatment advances continue to prolong life. In the past three to five years alone, the number of people reported to be living with heart disease has doubled.(4) The high cost of cardio-arterial disease - Taking Employees' Health to Heart Business & Health, Dec, 1995
High blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, smoking, overweight and obesity, and physical inactivity are major risk factors for CVD. Making some significant but relatively easy changes in your lifestyle can control all of these risks.