Healthy Employees Happy Employees District starts wellness initiative source: August 2006 issue of N

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Healthy Employees Happy EmployeesDistrict
starts wellness initiativesource August 2006
issue of North East Notes Employee Newsletter
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Wellness In North East (WIN)

• BACKGROUND
• Prior Year Benefit changes help mitigate
  increases in claim costs.
• This allowed no increase in health premiums or
  benefit changes for 2007-08.
• Mercer Survey of 1,557 companies expect Health
  Insurance costs to rise nearly 9 on average in
  2008. Most companies plan on benefits changes so
  that the actual increase is expected to be just
  6.7 for 2008.
• To help control future cost, NEISD Health Plan
  will continue to focus on Prevention and Wellness.

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Wellness In North East (WIN)

• BACKGROUND continued
• August 2006 the District started a wellness
  initiative for employees.
• A Wellness committee was established and met
  several times last year.
• Committee named the initiative Wellness in North
  East (WIN).
• One of the goals that came out of the committee
  was to gather, evaluate and provide data to
  determine baseline indicators to improve
  wellness.

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Wellness In North East (WIN)

• ACTION
• Employee Benefits collaborated with Health
  Services to put this Onsite Wellness RFP
  together.
• This fall the Influenza inoculation will be
  administered.
• In the spring the screenings that will be offered
  are Cholesterol (HDL,LDL and Triglycerides),
  Glucose, Blood Pressure, BMI (Body Mass Index),
  and HRA (Health Risk Assessment).
• The Cholesterol and Glucose will be done by
  Veni-puncture instead of a finger prick to
  provide more accurate and detailed results which
  the employee can provide to their physician.

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Wellness In North East (WIN)

• ACTION continued
• The vendor will provide a detailed report to the
  employee.
• Only summary data will be provided to the
  District.
• The vendor will schedule each event with each
  location during work hours.
• Vendor requires 50 participants per location.
  Some locations will be clustered based on
  participation.

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Wellness In North East (WIN)

• EXPECTED RESULTS
• Vendors estimate for a first time event, the
  participation rate would be 30 to 40.
• We will only pay for those employees that
  participate.
• Industry surveys have shown that every dollar
  spent on wellness will generate an equal if not
  more savings in our Health Plan in addition to
  the goodwill.
• Increase in employee and student attendance.