Wellness
Building Better Health

An employee wellness program can have many benefits for your employees, the most important being healthier, happier lives. By providing wellness programs you help employees to understand their current health status and how to lower their health risks. You also give them the access, opportunity and encouragement they need to actively participate in improving their health.

An employee wellness program can be beneficial for your company as well. Healthier employees tend to have a higher level of satisfaction and lower absenteeism resulting in increased productivity.

Developing the right wellness program and adapting it successfully to bring about the lifestyle changes necessary to improve health can be very challenging.

That's why many organizations turn to Advocate Health Care when they need wellness programs. Advocate has been helping individuals change their lifestyles, and improve and restore their health for decades.

We will partner with you to provide quality customized wellness programs that can really make a difference.

Assessment-based Planning
Advocate Health Care's wellness programs are unique in that we start by performing an in-depth evaluation of your organization's employees' health status so that the wellness program we create is truly customized for your employees. Based on our assessment of your employees' health, we'll identify health risks and needs, and help you develop wellness initiatives that target specific areas of concern.

Health Prevention Strategies
Advocate designs wellness programs that are built around solving your employees' key health problems and addressing their health needs. Programs are also developed with your organization's goals in mind, and can range from a singular health screening to a series of lectures, health fairs and more.

High Quality Services
And because good health is of primary importance, we are dedicated to working with you to provide a quality wellness program that is cost effective and within your budget.

Programs

• Health Risk Assessment
  A comprehensive health and lifestyle questionnaire evaluates employees' risks for developing certain health conditions. Based on individual employee answers and test results, each employee receives a confidential health risk assessment and your organization receives an aggregate health risk report.
• Screenings
  Numerous health screenings, such as blood pressure and cholesterol are provided by Advocate health professionals.
• Health Fairs
  Health fairs offering screenings, health risk assessments, informational exhibits and demonstrations expose employees to information on many health and wellness topics.
• Speaker's Bureau
  Educational lectures on key health issues are presented by Advocate physicians and other health care professionals. Topics range from nutrition and heart disease to stress management and first aid.
• Healthwise Handbook
  A self-care manual with more than 300 pages of health information, home treatment instruction and tips on when to see a medical professional.
• Smoking Cessation
  A multiple-session course focused on long-term behavior changes to permanently quit smoking.
• Weight Loss Programs
  Programs aimed at learning healthier lifestyle eating habits and achieving and maintaining weight loss.
• Massage Therapy
  Therapeutic massage sessions are used to combat and alleviate stress.
• Health Information Center
  A display board that each month features different health topics and quarterly personal health guides that can be taken home by employees.