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A Look Into MD Anderson Cancer Center's Wellness Program ~ An Employer Case Study

In 1976 Bill Baun was flat on his back, staring at a brick wall outside a hospital room.

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Why isn't the wellness industry collaborating?

It seems everyone knows and believes that wellness is the answer.

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One Size Wellness

Imagine you are head of Human Capital for a 100-person company.

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Think & Be Well

The purpose of this informative and engaging article is for you to feel better and have a new thoughtful experience around being well.

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Passive-aggressive Behavior Destroys Relationships

Much stress in life comes from interactions with colleagues, family, and friends who are less-than-direct.

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How to Drive Value Creation in the C-Suite

In the eyes of a CEO, businesses create jobs, innovate, manufacture and provide the services that drive economic growth.

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2705 Reasons to Change the Culture of Your Company

The question today is not whether healthier employees are more productive and spend less on health care.

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Using Data to Set Goals Employees Want to Achieve

What do your employees want to know or accomplish? Their answers to a simple interest survey can be the catalyst for effective wellness communication.

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Put me in Coach!

You have decided that now is the time to really get healthy. You are going to change your eating habits, start a fitness routine,

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Smile Well

When you get up in the morning to get ready for work, does your smile make you feel better?

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The Increasing use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Health Reasons

There has been a substantial increase in the use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) use among American adults since 1990

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Health Reform Prompts Employers to get Creative with Wellness

The epic debate on health care raised plenty of controversy and confusion

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Choosing the Right Incentive Program

In today's economy, everyone is searching for ways to reduce costs without reducing services. It's the "do more with less"� philosophy,

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Manage Turnover, Not Just Wellness

While the cost of turnover is usually recognized, it is not always considered as a critical element of wellness strategy.

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Health and Wellness Programs: Progress and Forward Motion

There is exciting news in the world of health and wellness programs. The federal government is paying close attention to the benefits that stem from a healthier workforce.

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Employers to help Workforce in Achieving New Year's Resolutions

When you read the headline to this article I bet you thought the New Years Resolution we would be discussing is losing weight and becoming healthy.

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How to Increase Your ROI on Preventive Services, Just in Time for Healthcare Reform

The healthcare reform legislation enacted this past spring, known as the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,

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What Does Your Perfect Wellness Program Look Like?

Is there one perfect wellness program that works for every company, every time? No, there is not. However,

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Your Employees Will Be Global Healthcare Consumers - Are You Prepared to Communicate with Them?

A "perfect storm" of trends occurred about 10 years ago in the music industry, and it changed the landscape of that business forever.

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Replacement Insanity

Insanity comes in all kinds of packages and degrees. We have all witnessed vanity insanity when an aging middle aged man comes to a board meeting with a bad dye job and doesn't think anyone will notice.

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Spread the Word: Productive Gossip as a Skill

Is gossip among humans equivalent to grooming between primates?

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The Value Proposition of a Medical Advocate Program

I want to inform you about a fantastic service that I have become a big fan of.

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Benchmarking Wellness Programs: How Does Your Program Measure Up?

Benchmarking is a widely used business term describing research that compares one company's business processes

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Beyond the Questionnaire: Using the Health Assessment as a Tool for Behavior Change

Typically, the first interaction individuals have with a health or wellness program is when they take the initial health assessment.

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Make the Most of Your New Year

Have you created any New Year's resolutions yet? Do you usually accomplish them? If not, consider setting goals,

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Workplace Wellness In Motion

Motion is life and life is motion. Business in motion creates profits. Stagnant businesses lose money. Employees in motion create thriving companies.

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Well, well, well!

The big buzzword today in corporate HR circles is Wellness. Employers who use the adage "A healthy worker is a happy worker"�

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Defining the Problem and the Impact of Workplace Bullying

This is the first article in a series addressing workplace bullying. The article below defines the problem and its consequences.

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The Stress of Being Stressed Out

Steven Slater's incident of air rage that made national news this past summer has triggered an onslaught of support from many who see in Slater's situation the realization of their own "

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Is it Your Job to Make People Happy?

Most of the time I'm brought into companies to deal with all things which affect performance and ails the human mind: anxiety, depression, neurosis, obsessions, paranoia, delusions.

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Wellness: The Newest Voluntary Benefit?

Two vital and innovative trends in the workplace "" wellness and voluntary benefits "" have great potential to merge into one of the most exciting and powerful new benefits for employees:

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Development Stages in Corporate Wellness Programs

It isn't quite the case that: "If you've seen one corporate wellness program, you've seen one corporate wellness program, but it's close.

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Assessment Tools Power Culture of Wellness and Population Health

It's easy for employers to pick low-hanging fruit from the proverbial money-saving tree by implementing cost shifting strategies and doing whatever they can to reduce vendor costs.

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Executive Health a Top Priority for Stock Holders

Executive health and wellness programs are becoming increasingly popular throughout corporate America.

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8 Truths to Boost Your Wellness Communication

Offering health-related programs that align with corporate strategies and employee goals is smart, but those programs should be considered the icing.

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Open Enrollment + Health Reform = Consumer Confusion

This fall's Open Enrollment season "" the time when you can make annual changes to your health benefits plan

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GO HAPPY... It Brings Motivation and Productivity into Companies

The statistics are rolling in and the research says "yes"�.. According to Sonja Lyubomirsky in her book called The How of Happiness,"�

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The Value Proposition of Worksite Clinics

In short Insurance Companies and TPA's are in the risk business and administration...Work Site Clinic manager's are in the provider business

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Ensuring that Payers Get the Best Treatment from Healthcare Technology

When healthcare reform became law early this year, insurers realized the need to increase efficiencies to reduce costs had become stronger than ever.

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Cut Health Care Costs by Establishing a "Culture of Health"

As every CEO and company owner knows, health care costs have skyrocketed over the past several years.

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Beyond Insurance: Significant Wellness Discounts for Your Employees

To improve employee health and overall well-being, you are most likely reviewing the costs, features and benefits of new wellness programs.

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Moving the Wellness Needle, Compressing the Trend Curve

Critics of the new federal healthcare reform (HCR) provisions assert that the law is

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Nutrition: The Ideal Foundation for Employee Wellness

When it comes to the health of your employees, diet and nutrition offer an ideal foundation for your organization's wellness efforts, as they can pay the

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Can Reform Changes In Wellness Programs Impact Growing Obesity Problems Long Term?

It is now estimated that about two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese and the prevalence has increased 61% in the last decade.

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How to Make Behavior Change Last

One in five of American adults smoke.  Half of the smoking population tries and fails

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The 411 on Flu in the Workplace

Influenza is a very serious, but preventable illness that claims the lives of tens of thousands of people each year.

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Successfully Engaging Employees in Wellness Programs

Health and wellness professionals consistently report that motivating individuals to participate in a workplace wellness program is the biggest challenge they face.

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2010 Participant List Released for National Corporate Wellness Conference

I am very excited to announce we have released the most updated list as of September 7th for the upcoming National Corporate Wellness Conference and the Employer Healthcare Congress,

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Mindfulness Stress Management: Get Off Autopilot and Kick the Past Out of the Present

Doesn't it bug you when you habitually react defensively to your critical boss, a dominating parent or whomever? You swear you won't let her get under your skin then, bam! It happens again.

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