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5 Ways to Promote Corporate Wellness in the New Year
Corporate wellness programs tend to fade after a few months when they’re built around January enthusiasm instead of sustainable systems that support employees throughout the year.
At Extended Care Medical in Dothan, Alabama, we work with companies throughout Alabama and Florida to create wellness programs that address the real barriers preventing employees from taking care of their health.
1. Bring health screenings to your workplace
Getting to a doctor’s appointment during the workday means juggling schedules, taking time off, and hoping nothing urgent comes up. On-site health screenings remove all of that.
Workplace screenings typically include:
- Blood pressure checks
- Cholesterol testing
- Diabetes screenings
- Body mass index (BMI) measurements
- Vision and hearing tests
Someone who’s been avoiding getting their blood pressure checked for months might actually do it when the screening happens during their lunch break. These screenings identify health issues before they turn into bigger problems that need serious treatment.
2. Provide telehealth follow-up for employees who need treatment
Discovering high blood pressure during a workplace screening doesn’t help much if the employee never follows through with treatment.
Telehealth appointments let employees connect with our team on their schedule, get prescriptions sent to their pharmacy, and receive ongoing care without additional time away from work.
3. Treat mental health support as part of overall wellness
Stress and burnout affect productivity just like physical health problems, but wellness programs sometimes treat mental health as separate.
Make resources visible and accessible
Send information through email, posters, team meetings, and new employee orientation. Repeat it regularly to make sure your employees know these resources are available and encouraged to use.
Train managers to recognize warning signs of burnout
Supervisors see employees more often than HR does. Teaching managers to notice sudden performance drops or behavior changes helps catch problems earlier so they can direct employees to the appropriate resources.
4. Structure programs around group participation
People abandon individual wellness goals when nobody else is involved. Team-based programs create accountability that actually keeps employees participating.
For example, step challenges work better when they recognize consistent team participation instead of rewarding whoever walks the furthest, so employees support each other instead of competing.
5. Look at outcomes that connect to employee health
Your wellness program works if employee blood pressure improves, sick days drop, and people report lower stress levels. Those outcomes connect directly to productivity and healthcare costs.
Corporate wellness works when it's built into daily operations
Wellness programs fail when they run for a month, then disappear. The programs that work address why employees skip care in the first place.
Extended Care Medical develops wellness programs for companies with employees who work different schedules and manage complicated lives. Call our Dothan office today or schedule an appointment online to discuss corporate wellness services for your company.