
G-S Consulting understands that employee health is essential for a business’ success. By implementing workplace wellness programs, employers can promote healthy lifestyles to employees and their families. Workplace wellness can lower health care costs, increase productivity, decrease absenteeism and raise employee morale. Because employees spend many of their waking hours at work, the workplace is an ideal setting to address health and wellness issues.
A company that cares about its employees' health is often seen as a better place to work. Those companies save money by retaining workers who appreciate the benefit of a wellness program and they can attract new employees in a competitive market.
Examples of wellness programs include such things as:
- Wellness screenings;
- Health education classes;
- Internal policies that promote healthy behaviors; and
- Environmental changes that affect the health of employees.
We can help you to build a customized program specific to your employees’ needs and provide you with the tools needed to get your wellness program off the ground.
Using multiple resources, we create customized wellness materials designed to fit your industry, worksite, employee population, benefit design, and your goals and utilization patterns. You will be able to communicate your wellness campaign to employees by using your own employee website or materials we customize for you.
Implementing a wellness campaign for our mid-size to larger clients is more refined using our data mining tools. By mining the data, we are able to identify utilization patterns specific to your plan and tailor your campaign to those needs. Campaigns specific to claims data could include some of the following:
- Workplace safety
- Awareness with regard to specific diseases or conditions
- Lifestyle changes, such as smoking cessation or weight loss
Changing lifestyle and behaviors has the greatest impact on reducing future health costs for your company. An investment in your employees' health may lower health care costs or slow the cost increases. Employees with more health risk factors, including being overweight, smoking and having diabetes, cost more to insure than people with fewer risk factors. A wellness program can help employees with high risk factors make lifestyle changes to improve their quality of life and lower costs, while also helping employees with fewer risk factors remain healthy.