Corporate Wellness: Strategies for Health and Fitness Success
Explore the importance of corporate wellness and the impact of nutrition on health and fitness. Discover strategies to engage employees in disease prevention programs and target high-risk groups for follow-up visits. Learn about the success of medical nutrition therapy and the types of conditions addressed, along with steps to grow participation in wellness initiatives.
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Good Nutrition for Health & Fitness Carol Lapin, MS, RD
Presentation Agenda Why corporate wellness matters Overview of participation in programs offered Summary of numbers seen for medical nutrition therapy and the types of medical conditions Assessing success of third year mission and strategies Fourth year mission and strategies Steps to grow participation in year 4 2
Why Corporate Wellness Matters 1. Reduces elevated health risk 2. Reduces health care cost 3. Improves productivity 4. Decreases both absenteeism and presenteeism 5. Builds and helps sustain high employee morale *Studies indicate the most successful weight loss programs are face-to- face individual or classroom sessions meeting at least 14 times over a 6- month period. 3
Corporate nutrition/wellness program summary 2019 181 First time appointments 91 Lifestyle Class Participants 20 Follow-up appointments 2 Health Screenings 2 Cooking demonstrations 2 Safety moment presentations 1 Benefits Fair 4
Client demographics Average age seeking nutrition/wellness services: 49 Percentage male: 46% Percentage female: 54% Percentage with comorbidities: 71% 5
Medical nutrition therapy/wellness general categories and number of clients seen Reason for MNT visit Number of Clients Seen Body fat reduction 142 Abnormal lipids 164 Elevated and hypertensive blood pressure 86 Pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes 48 Type 1 diabetes 2 Other Categories 62 Details provided in handout 6
MY MISSION: engage more employees in programing for disease prevention & target high risk groups for follow-up visits Current Strategies: Re-engage all clients who received nutrition consultations* Prioritize High Risk Groups Follow-up classes for all those previously enrolled* Continue to use health and benefit fairs to recruit participants Continue to present nutrition/wellness information at Safety Moments 7
I will continue to employ strategies that have proven effective, including: Continuing to offer brown bag presentations twice yearly Offering cooking demonstrations annually Presenting at safety moments and promoting wellness programming Walking programs every 2 weeks at the conclusion of follow-up classes 8
New strategies Promote health coaching services, as well as nutrition counseling Provide expert content for benefits website Nutrition and wellness articles Ask the Nutrition Expert Facts Sheets customized for employee interest Cooking Tips and Recipes Webinars Telehealth services for out of state employees 9
4 Steps to grow participation 1. Promote nutrition/wellness programs directly to employees by e- blast 2. Promote programing with banners on first page of company website 3. Recruit a wellness champion in each department to promote programing 4. Find alternate channels for promotions (i.e. wellness bulletin board in each department)
