A health wellness program is broadly defined as any program of health promotion or disease prevention. My recent article entitled “Taxonomy of Health Wellness Programs – Part I” reviewed the classification of health wellness programs (hereinafter referred to as “Wellness Programs”) under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”). In this article, I am going to review an alternative way of classifying Wellness Programs that is contained in the “2018 Employer Guide: FINDING FIT: IMPLEMENTING WELLNESS PROGRAMS SUCCESSFULLY” (the “Guide”).
Wellness. Wellbeing. Whatever kind of program is implemented, employers both big and small have a profitable interest in keeping employees healthy and engaged both at work and at home, but may lack the insight on creating a successful package.
Workplace wellness programs have great power to create healthy employees, improve employee engagement, and can lead to better employer engagement. Today we will look at the highlights of a new guide on workplace wellness. We are also joined by Hector De La Torre, Executive Director of Transamerica Center for Health Studies® (TCHS) and Dr. Cristina Banks of the Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces (ICHW) to get some insight into wellness programs.
The Transamerica Center for Health Studies, in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces, has created a new resource to help employers determine what type of wellness program is best for them.
National nonprofit Transamerica Center for Health Studies® (TCHS) together with the Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces (ICHW) at UC Berkeley, announced today the release of Finding Fit: Implementing Workplace Wellness Programs Successfully, a helpful resource for organizations offering wellness programs for their employees.
