Our Services
We offer a tailored and effective health and wellness program that increases the health of your workforce decreases absenteeism, and allows your company to offer a more consistent product or service. But this does not happen by accident, an effective program is the key to achieving and maximizing the benefits of these programs.
If your organization is seeking to strengthen health and wellness programs, you need to rethink, redesign, and modify health promotion systems to take advantage of modern healthcare conventions, which include revising healthcare services, education, literacy, and goals. These revisions should enhance the chances of healthy outcomes for current employees and bolster your organization’s reputation when targeting and recruiting new employees.
Wellness For The Workplace has developed The H.E.A.L.S. Wellness Method. It has been designed to help forward-thinking organizations key into this modification ahead of the competition. The H.E.A.L.S. Wellness Method is a health promotion framework that utilizes Registered Nurses to guide and educate organizations on identifying, customizing, and implementing cost-effective wellness programs.
Health Promotion
Health promotion programs and services are most effective if the employee uses them. Still, even more importantly, employees should be allowed to voice their opinion about these programs their organization wants to implement and if they believe they can benefit personally.
Some ways organizations can allow workers to voice their opinions can include:
- Surveys
- Newsletters
- Apps
- Promotional Emails
- Company Intranet
- Employee Townhalls
Education
Health education entails various skills taught to clients that accelerate voluntary actions conducive to improving health and health outcomes (for example,
blood glucose or blood pressure monitoring, flossing, etc.) The main goal of health education is to decrease the gap between best health practices and what is actually practised by the client/patient. With effective and aggressive health education, it becomes easier to achieve positive health outcomes for individuals, populations, and workplaces.
Assessment
Three types of assessments should occur when implementing an organization’s wellness programs.
The type of assessments are:
- Organizational: An assessment for which programs and services are appropriate based on the company's employee population. Many organizations mistakenly assume that if another organization has had success with a particular program or service, it will work for them, also. Because each company has a unique employee base, needs will vary, and programs and services should be modified to account for those differences.
- Individual/Self-Assessment: This is the foundation of self-care, which involves one's ability to engage in self-awareness and self-regulation as tools to develop a balance between physical, psychological, and spiritual needs. A thorough understanding of self care is vital to minimizing professional burnout and facilitating coping with work-related stress. Because of the benefits of self-care, it should be promoted and recognized as an essential holistic wellness tool.
- Health Risk Assessment (HRA): Typically completed by a Registered Nurse with a background in care management. Because true health involves resolving physical, mental, and psychosocial problems, completing an HRA that does not consider all these areas is inappropriate, is not holistic, and is antithetical to good health and achieving positive health outcomes.
Literacy
Health literacy is the ability to understand medical terminology, health information, and healthcare data to make informed medical decisions. The quality of an
individual’s health literacy significantly determines whether they are healthy, maintain health, or have a healthy lifestyle.
Limited health literacy can affect people of any race, ethnicity, age, income, education level, profession, or geographic location.
Two determinations must be made regarding health literacy:
- Individual Health Literacy - See above.
- Organizational Health Literacy - How companies adequately provide their employees with access to health information and healthcare data. Companies should make every effort to ensure health information is readily available so employees have enough quality information to determine if participation in health and wellness programs or services is appropriate.
Solutions
Now that your organization has obtained the information outlined above, what do you do about it? How do you use this information to increase your organization’s health
while reaping the benefits of improved customer service and profitability?
Solutions to these identified problems can take many forms, and all are not necessarily related to healthcare. Still, they all will be responsible for improving the health and well-being of your employees, such as flexible work schedules, on-site childcare, massages, etc. There are still many others that may also benefit your organization’s unique employee population.
To determine which solutions are best for your organization, you need an expert to guide you through your options, and that is what Wellness for the Workplace was explicitly designed to do.
