All over America there are businesses just like
yours that are unable to provide comprehensive health care benefits
to its employees due to the high cost of premiums. With the
Total Health Systems Corporate Health & Wellness Program
you can provide health care benefits to all of your employees
and their families with little or no increased cost to you the
employer.
The Total Health Systems Corporate Health &Wellness
Program implements state of the art techniques that will
enhance productivity through reducing stress, decreasing downtime
caused by RSI (repetitive stress injuries), improving work place
safety, and promoting overall health and fitness.
Our program has two levels of service to suit the individual
needs of a growing company:
 The
Corporate Gold Program is designed to provide you and your
employees with insights on health, wellness and ergonomics.
This allows you to take proactive steps toward the prevention
of injury and the maintenance of an active quality life. Services
include:
Worker's compensation evaluation / same day appointments
for on-site injury
Yearly health physicals
An initial musculoskeletal health evaluation and appropriate
diagnostic studies are available for all employees
Nutritional analysis and follow-up, and supplement recommendations
Quarterly Workshops:
-Stretching Programs
-Health and Injury Prevention
-Nutritional workshops
Additional Benefits:
-Health screening fairs (blood pressure, digital postural
evaluation, body fat testing, bone density screening, etc.)
-Ergonomic Workstation Analysis
-Employee health survey / analysis
 The
Corporate Platinum Program is designed for businesses that
want to provide on-site care for their employees in addition
to our other corporate benefits. This increases participation
and as a result improves the company's bottom line. This saves
you and your employee's valuable time by allowing them to be
treated at work.
Benefits of On-site Chiropractic Care:
-All the benefits of the Gold Program
-On the Job Injury Analysis
-Recurring Injury Prevention
Independent studies show that injured employees are back on
the job in half the time and at half the cost with on-site care.
Statistics of innovative companies utilizing this approach
have shown dramatic decreases in employee injuries, workdays
lost, absenteeism and employees turnover.
We will also perform any of these services, including
workshops and screenings, on an a la carte basis for your convenience
as well.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN TO YOUR BOTTOM LINE?
- A Substantial Improvement in Productivity
- Greater net income to the company - "Companies that
remain uninvolved will be left behind."
As businesses struggle to reverse the trend of rising health
care costs, wellness and exercise programs are becoming essential
to their economic livelihood. By implementing wellness programs,
companies can not only aid in decreasing their insurance and
compensation costs, but also reap the reward of healthier employees.
Today's organizations believe that their support of positive
health habits is an important contribution to the overall culture
of their business.
Currently, health care costs are rising at an alarming rate,
representing an ever-increasing portion of the gross national
product, (GNP). Businesses, both large and small, ultimately
pay a significant percentage of the medical costs of corporate
America. More than half of these costs are attributed to illnesses
that are preventable. Clearly, there's a need for corporations
to help their employees establish a healthy lifestyle.
"Healthier employees have a positive
impact on a company's bottom line. As this publication demonstrates,
they have lower health care costs and turnover rates, improved
productivity, better morale, fewer medical claims, reduced absenteeism,
etc. The result is a win/win situation for individual health
and company gain."
- John McCarthy, Executive Director, IHRSA
In the well-documented Steelcase Corporation
study, the company saved over 50% in health care claims - a
total of more than $14 million - over a ten-year period.
- Medical Health and Fitness, 1996
For those who took part in the wellness program
at the Dallas Police Department, absenteeism decreased by 29%.
- Business Quarterly, winter 1996
At LSG/Sky Chefs, employees logged an average
1,000 injuries per year and 18,000 lost workdays in the late
1980s due primarily to back strain on the job. A 1991 launching
of a safe lifting and safety awareness program called "Care"
resulted in a decline of lost workdays to just 8,500 in 1993.
- Fortune, October 1993
In the two-year run Healthy Workers Project
(HWP), a resulting reduction was reported in the prevalence
of sick days by 16% to 22%, respectively, with the use of implemented
wellness programs.
- Journal of Occupational Medicine, November 1993
Although not easy to measure as a reduction in healthcare costs,
employee productivity can have a considerable impact on an organization
and its profitability. Corporate wellness programs tend to improve
overall morale, as participating employees feel better both
about themselves and their companies. Such programs lead to
a more energetic, positive, and productive workplace, thus strengthening
a company and helping to position it for success. Healthy employees
work better and, in turn, provide gains for the company / organization.
Wellness and health promotion programs should be evaluated
on their success in lowering health risks and improving poor
health behaviors as well as improving an individual's well
being. Employees with high risks (i.e. smoking, obesity, alcohol
use, etc. cost more than low-risk employees did in terms of
medical claims. Physically active employees at $391 less expensive
than inactive workers.
- American Journal of Health Promotion, July 1992
"Healthy companies meet the pressing
demand for new products and services by fostering creativity
and collaborative work. Healthy companies more capably maintain
customer relationships because employees earn and experience
communications, intimate support and real empathy with customers.
Because people are choosing firms more for the culture they
have created than for the pay package they are providing, healthy
companies attract and recruit the best and the brightest."
- Julie Meeks, CEO Haelan Group, Business & Health, February
1999
A POSITIVE RETURN ON YOUR INVESTMENT
Because of financial concerns, companies often struggle with
the decision to invest in a fitness or wellness program for
their employees. No decision -maker would deny "one has
to spend money to make money. Once the initial investment is
made, the program will immediately start paying for itself -
provided that it's properly promoted and maintained - and, eventually,
realize concrete savings for the company. Healthy employees
make healthy companies, which are likely to bring in healthy
profits and that, in itself, is a positive return on investment.
Within two years of beginning a wellness
program, the Kearney Orthopedic and Fracture Clinic in Kearney,
Nebraska, began to see financial gains through a slowing rate
of increase in its insurance rates.
- Nation's Business, February 1997
An analysis of the FitWorks health program
in place at Pacific Bell, showed that in various years the program
returned from $2.20 to $3 in savings for each dollar spent,
resulting in annual savings of over $5 million.
- Business & Health, February 1999
At 1994 random sample of North Colorado Medical
Center employees who set goals for being active in their own
health care was compared to a similar size group of non-goal
setters. Those who participated spent $40 dollars less for every
dollar spent on health care claims when compared to the non-goal
setters.
- AAOHN Journal, September 1996
The Coors Brewing Company estimated an average return of
$6.15 for every dollar invested in its wellness program. Their
total health care costs decreased 6.4% in 1993, compared with
a national average increase of 8.9%
- Financial executive, March/April 1995
Participants in a corporate fitness program
at Steelcase, Inc., had medical claims costs that were 55% lower
over a six-year period than those who were non-participants.
- Nation's Business, February 1997
Overall health care costs dropped by approximately 10% over
a five-year period for Pitney Bowes starting in 1994, when they
first offered their wellness program.
- Human Resource Executive, May 4, 1999
REDUCED EMPLOYEE TURNOVER
Healthy Employees are happy employees. And those
who are happy workers almost always turn out to be faithful, long-term
employees. So the healthier and happier the work force, the less
a company has to spend on hiring and training new personnel. The
basis for creating a healthy work force, of course, is a well-conceived
and well-promoted corporate wellness program.
At both a British Columbia Hydro Plant and the Toronto Life Assurance
Company, lower turnover rates occurred among those employees who
participated in their companies' health programs.
- Business Quarterly, winter 1996
"A company's overall health management
strategy should include initiatives that help individuals better
manage their own healthcare and disease."
Camille Haltom, Practice Leader, Hewitt Associates, Modern
Healthcare, October 14, 1996
University of Michigan Health Management Research Center
findings validates the relationship between increasing Wellness
Scores {using Health Risk Appraisal date} and decreasing medical
costs.
- 20-Year Cost Benefit Analysis and Review, UM-HMRC, 1999
REDUCE COSTS AND MEDICAL CLAIMS
The most obvious benefit of a corporate wellness program is
that it allows companies to reduce their overall health care
costs, in part by reducing the total number of medical claims
that they have to field each year. The U.S. Surgeon General
reports that 75% of all illnesses can be attributed to lifestyle-related
cause, and that 53% of America's population are "inactive."
What both businesses and the population-at-large need, of course,
is fitness. Thousands of studies confirm that regular dietary
education and exercise has a protective effect against a wide
variety of illnesses and diseases. It only stands to reason
that the more a business can employees avoid illness and disease
and manage their own health, the more it can manage its own
health care costs each year.
In a recent study at First Chicago NBD, employees with a
high body mass index (BMI) were shown to be more likely to have
other health risks than those without a high BMI. Mean health
care costs for the BMI at-risk population was $6,822 as compared
to $4,496 for the not-at-risk population.
- Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, September
1998
Tenneco compared the medical care utilization
rates for its exercising employees to its non-exercisers. Participants
had lower non-hospital costs and fewer sick hours.
- American Journal of Health Promotion, September/October
1993
Barber Foods, a Maine-based company, has
been incorporating exercise breaks into the employee workday
for the past three years. To this they attribute a 25% decrease
in the number of claims and on-the-job injuries.
- Occupational Health & Safety August 1996
"Although the effects of smoking cessation and changes
in dietary habits have been the focus of a number of the larger
worksite studies that focused on multiple risk factors, physical
activity may serve as an important means of facilitating behavior
change in both dietary and smoking behaviors."
- Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, July
1999
We have found that 60% -- well over half
of Americans - are not regularly active. Worse yet, 25% of Americans
are not active at all. We need to turn (these trends) around
quickly, for the health of our citizens and our country. Businesses
need to learn from what has worked in the past and promote worksite
fitness an easy option for workers."
- Donna Shalala, US Secretary of Health and Human Services,
July 1996
In an analysis of work-site fitness programs
of several companies, a cost/benefit ration of $1.07 to $5.58
was achieved.
- Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, March 1992
Comparing retention rates before and after
the opening of Tenneco's fitness center, there was lower turnover
among exercisers, particularly in the case of women.
- American Journal of Health Promotion, Sept. /Oct. 1993
The results of a University of Kentucky Wellness
Program focused on the health care costs associated with regular
physical activity. One result of the study revealed that employees
involved in the program who were classified as non-exercisers
tended to have higher {health care} costs than did exercisers
($266 vs. $207)
- American Journal of Health Behavior, 1999
Companies all over the country are implementing similar programs
and are enjoying savings of tens of thousands of dollars annually
in workers compensation and healthcare costs. At the same time
they are also realizing higher profits due to greater productivity
and lower employee turnover than ever before.
With The Total Health Systems Corporate Health
& Wellness Program you can offer your employees the peace
of mind for which they have been searching. With rising healthcare
costs for all employees, this program is a way to give back to
your employees while improving your bottom line. These unsurpassed
benefits will encourage and promote health and safety, which will
ultimately make them happier and more efficient workers.
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