We’re getting unhappier at work
Posted on November 12, 2009 at 10:49 am
Southerners responding to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index last month indicated their work environments are worsening. The South’s score is now below the national average for the first time since March. View the full study here.
Hormone treatment center opens
Posted on October 9, 2009 at 10:17 amFive-year-old BodyLogicMD has opened its first Tennessee hormone replacement therapy clinic in Century City.
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The workplace is getting worse, but we’re handling it pretty well
Posted on October 8, 2009 at 7:32 am
One of the main data nuggets in this month’s Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index is a significant drop in the quality of the work environment. But it appears most Americans are dealing with the professional hardship pretty effectively, given that the index’s life evaluation component is rising nicely, especially in the South and Midwest.
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Taking wellness to restaurant workers
Posted on September 24, 2009 at 9:52 amChain Leader examines the challenges of expanding wellness and health management programs to the far-flung front-line workers of the restaurant industry, where turnover is high and vices pervasive. The piece, which mentions that Captain D’s plans to roll out a broad wellness plan, talks about the need for incentives, but also about pitching the plan more broadly to employees.
Anderson introduced the program cautiously, toning down the pervasiveness of smoking, obesity and substance abuse among industry workers. “The first thing you’d probably hear from our managers is, ‘Whew, I’m not sure I’m on the right side of that one,’” she says.
Instead, her initial presentation included data about the burden of such behaviors on the country’s health-care system. Anderson described how chronic diseases like hypertension and early-onset diabetes can be avoided by taking care of yourself. “I also talked about the costs associated with an employee population that is not well,” she recalls.
Got to admit it’s getting better
Posted on September 10, 2009 at 6:29 amA sizable jump in the number of people satisfied with their work environment lifted the August Well-Being Index compiled by Healthways and Gallup.
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Ardent picks wellness partner
Posted on September 1, 2009 at 6:32 amAnd it ain’t Middle Tennessee neighbor Healthways. Hospital operator Ardent Health Services has signed Ohio-based Bravo Wellness to a three-year deal that will give participating employees a discount on their health insurance premiums.
Bravo’s corporate wellness programs provide employers with an average annual savings of nearly 10 percent. While only three in 10 employees participate in traditional wellness programs, Bravo’s programs provide financial incentives that increase employee participation. Most Bravo clients experience an average of 92 percent participation.
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Stay healthy, get a raise
Posted on August 19, 2009 at 8:37 amWith a helping hand from one of Richard Branson’s ventures, First Horizon is giving its employees an incentive to shape up.
By wearing a GoZone pedometer and tracking daily activity, employees will accumulate points (HealthMiles) toward a reward based on their levels of activity. Moderate activity pays off — walking, playing with the kids, cycling. Participation is optional and requires employees to make a $2.50 contribution each payday, which is every two weeks, to the cost of the program.
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Aegis inks Calif. contract
Posted on August 3, 2009 at 4:30 pmNashville-based health care marketing firm has teamed with a Sonoma County hospital system to roll out wellness programs to area businesses.
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How Medicare can save trillions
Posted on July 30, 2009 at 8:05 amRepeat after me: “Reduced health risk progression, reduced health risk progression…”
Healthways’ research staff has crunched a bunch of numbers to tell us that if seniors enter Medicare in a healthier state — having been coached on wellness and disease management in the years before they become eligible — the government health care program could spend $1.4 trillion less over a decade.
“The government and health care industry have long believed there to be a substantial cost benefit from prevention, health promotion and chronic care management,” said Ben R. Leedle,
Healthways chief executive officer. “This research validates and quantifies that assumption and
could have significant implications for the reform debate, health benefit coverage and policy in
general.”
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Working off the weight
Posted on July 21, 2009 at 7:33 am
The folks at Brookdale Senior Living are a right bunch of Jareds, albeit without the endorsement deals: Over 12 weeks this spring, some 4,000 of the nursing home operator’s employees took part in a weight-loss challenge that resulted in the disappearance of more than 30,000 pounds.
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Hot NOW! on Elliston Pl. Oh, and cool too
Posted on July 10, 2009 at 10:58 amFor those whose arteries have been aching for a clogging while the Krispy Kreme on Elliston has been hobbled by renovations we have good news:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (July 10, 2009) – Krispy Kreme’s Elliston Place location has been selling doughnuts from a tent outside the store, while the inside undergoes a remodel. But today, Friday, July 10, the newly remodeled Elliston Place location will reopen its doors, giving the community doughnut shop a face lift, as well as the new refreshing Kool Kreme® soft serve menu.
Krispy Kreme’s new Kool Kreme is a sensational new line of mouth-watering soft serve products, complete with a premium toppings bar. Available in Very Vanilla, Deep Chocolate and Swirl, Kool Kreme menu also offers traditional cones, shakes and Krispy Kreme’s specialty doughnut sundaes, all paired with a toppings bar that includes classic hot fudge, seasonal fruit, Butterfinger® candy, Oreo® cookie pieces and Reese’s® peanut butter cups.
Doughnut sundaes are ideal for fans who just can’t leave Krispy Kreme without the taste of one of the company’s Original Glazed® doughnuts. Doughnut sundaes are traditionally served with Very Vanilla Kool Kreme atop a hot Original Glazed® doughnut and smothered with a deliciously thick, rich chocolate sauce.
Elliston Place will be showing off the newly remodeled store by hosting a Kool Kreme Hour on Friday, July 17. Free Kool Kreme cones will be offered to all customers between 1 to 3 p.m. There will also be a drawing for customers to win a Kool Kreme party for up to six people. The winning party will get their choice of either a free doughnut sundae, available in Original Glazed®, Strawberry Cake and Chocolate Cake, or an Arctic Avalanche™ which combines Kool Kreme with various candy mix-ins.
You heard that right: Doughnut Sundaes. Now who’s for an EKG?
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Way to be more ‘well’
Posted on July 9, 2009 at 1:36 pmApparently, according to the June well-being index released by Healthways and Gallup Inc., we’re doing better
After tracking significant setbacks in well-being through the financial crisis of 2008-2009, the June Well-Being Report shows America may be on the road to recovery. Overall well-being reached 66.8, its second highest level since the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index™ (WBI) began in January 2008. The Life Evaluation Index (LEI), one of the six sub-indices composing the WBI, stabilized after dramatic gains over the past few months, ending at 47.8, a new high for the LEI beating the previous high from May 2009 of 47.5.
Full index found here.
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Just off the podium
Posted on July 1, 2009 at 9:31 am
New state-by-state rankings of obesity rates have been published today by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Tennessee ranked as the fourth-most obese state in the country behind Mississippi, Alabama and West Virginia.
And while the nation has long been bracing for a surge in Medicare as the boomers start turning 65, the new report makes clear that fat, not just age, will fuel much of those bills. In every state, the rate of obesity is higher among 55- to 64-year-olds – the oldest boomers – than among today’s 65-and-beyond.
As in previous years, Colorado is the only state with an obesity rate below 20 percent.
SEE ALSO: Our recent print-edition story on how human behavior will factor into health care reform efforts.
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Keeping the people healthy
Posted on June 25, 2009 at 10:27 amHealthways was one of 63 companies nationwide to be honored by the National Business Group on Health for promoting healthy lifestyles among its employees and their families.
Fitting that a company making a push into providing wellness for clients would, itself, have strong wellness programs in place for its own appointments.
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That’s when I fell for… the middle of the pack
Posted on May 26, 2009 at 12:36 pmHurray for the median!
The American College of Sports Medicine has rated Nashville as the 26th fittest city — of the 50 most populated — in the country.
The AFI data report reflects a composite of preventive health behaviors, levels of chronic disease conditions, health care access, as well as community resources and policies that support physical activity. In addition to a data report, AFI is a program designed to help communities identify opportunities to improve the health of their residents and expand community assets to better support active, healthy lifestyles.
The sad part about the rankings is not so much that Washington, D.C. is the top-ranked city, which a quick stroll through Capitol Hill will belie, but more that we came in just behind sausage-swilling Chicago.
Apparently Bob Swerski and the rest of the Superfans live outside the city limits. Here’s the full release.
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