S P E C I A L A D V E R T I S I N G F E AT U R E
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WELLNESS GROUP]
Helping local businesses strike the right balance with worksite wellness
ARE YOU CONCERNED with how to balance employee health and well-being while making an impact on the bottom line in today’s challenging climate? Most of the employers we work with agree that their employees are the most important part of the organization. Employee well-being directly affects productivity, disposition and quality of work. We know that company leaders have some serious pain points to deal with: rising health care costs, decreased productivity, increased absenteeism, highly medicated employees and high turnover to name a few. How do companies strike the right balance between employee well-being and running a successful business with a healthy bottom line? SB Wellness Group has been helping clients do just that over the past 21 years, and we know that there are a few ingredients that have to be present for success. With our high-touch personalized programming and small army of dedicated and talented professionals, SB Wellness Group is winning in wellness. THE INGREDIENTS The ingredients that are helping our clients succeed with worksite well-being 28
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programs? According to owner Shelly Beall, consistent, well-designed, well-implemented programming is crucial to getting results. “We have helped revitalize entire groups of people in the workforce through our onsite wellness coaches and comprehensive programs,” says Beall. “From start to finish, we have a formula that is working for us. However, it is never a cookie cutter program. Each group we work with is unique, and we love the challenge of finding out what is going to work specifically for that group. We are able to do this by being highly engaged with the groups we work with.” Regular face-to-face health coaching and health status check-ups are the heartbeat of SB’s programs and successes. We are able to show employers through aggregate reporting how employees are improving. A report might show how many employees stopped smoking in the program period, how many lost 5% or more of their weight, how many got off medications or started taking them correctly, and the associated cost savings for each of these things to the company. “Our employees respond very well to the professional and knowledgeable staff of SB Wellness,” says Debra Taylor, PHR, AVP
Human Resources at LWCC. “Through our partnership with SB Wellness, we are able to provide valuable wellness education to our employees and health screenings that help detect health concerns before they become more costly problems.” Programs that support, encourage and engage employees in taking control of their health will make the biggest impact on things like productivity, absenteeism and health care cost control. SB Wellness Group has something special when it comes to providing these services to employers. “It’s all about relationships,” says Beall. “Health is too personal not to work on building trust and accountability into the relationship—on the company and individual level. We treat every company as if it were our own and all of the employees in each company as if they were family members. This philosophy lends itself to a level of empathy and understanding that can be missing in other programs.” HOW DOES THIS LOOK IN ACTION? Obesity is one of the issues that cost a company, mainly in health care costs, lost productivity and high-level absenteeism. whatsnewinhealthcare.com