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National City Employees Get Healthy With Wellness Program
Last month, National City, Calif., announced several of its employees have begun reaping markedly positive benefits from a wellness program the city’s Wellness Committee instituted in 2012. The committee and program, Wellness Program: Employees on the Move, was created by several city employees and has thus far had 74 participants. Wellness Committee chair Walter Amedee announced the results of the program’s first two years during a presentation to city council members Feb. 4.
“Several years ago we were seeing a lot of decreases in our health screenings,” Amedee said. “Every conversation we had in our benefits committee we always came to ‘why don’t we start a wellness program?’”
“We wanted to educate our employees and find out what employees were interested in. We wanted to get employees to be more physically active and thinking about nutrition.”
After sounding employees on their interests, the committee focused on three factors that put an individual at high risk for many health problems: poor nutrition, low physical activity and a high body mass index. Participation in the program also entailed complying with preventative screenings. The committee then instituted monthly meetings at which employees could request support with pain, exercise, stress and weight management, and the committee began publishing a newsletter.
Furthermore, the committee began holding stress-management, health-education, financial-fitness, and diabetes- and breast cancer-awareness classes, to name a few. And it renovated National City’s City Hall gym for $25,000 so employees would have access to exercise facilities.
According to Amedee, as a result of the program, the city’s health-insurance provider did not increase employees’ premiums in 2013.
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