Get the Most out of your Workplace Wellness Program

By American Heart Association

Does your worksite offer a wellness program? If so, is your program comprehensive and based on best practices? Whether your company already has a program or you’re just getting started, the American Heart Association’s Workplace Health Solutions can help your program maximize its potential!

The American Heart Association partners with local San Diego companies to help make the most of your wellness program with the nation’s first continuous quality improvement program for workplace health. Workplace Health Solutions is completely free of charge and is being offered to help the American Heart Association improve the health of all San Diegans.

Workplace Health Solutions offers a complete suite of evidence-based tools to help you and your employees get the most out of your workplace health program. The American Heart Association’s continuous quality improvement program will help you assess the comprehensiveness of your programs and supporting workplace environment, consult expert resources on strategies for improvement, implement programs that engage employees and track progress toward ideal heart health and recognize your achievement through awards.
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To learn more, visit heart.org/workplacehealth or contact your local American Heart Association office at (858) 410-3821 or nancy.maldonado@heart.org

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Why it Matters

• 90% of employers do not measure their wellness program’s ROI. (1)
• Only 6.9% of worksites have a truly comprehensive health promotion program. (2)
• 77% of employers see lack of engagement as the biggest obstacle to successful workplace health programs. (3) 
• 55% of employees believe it’s important to see CEO set the example in personal health. (4)

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Sources

1. PriceWaterhouseCoopers, “Health and Well-being Touchstone Survey Results,” June 2014
2. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, “National Worksite Health Promotion,” 2004
3. Towers Watson/National Business Group on Health, “Staying@Work Survey Report,” 2013/2014
4. Nielsen, “The Benefits of Workplace Health Programs,” 2014