WellBiz

Healthier employees can have a positive impact on your company’s bottom line, whether it is through increased productivity or decreased insurance premiums. WellBiz is a pilot program from the Chamber that is helping to increase wellness in the workplace.

Designed to serve as a catalyst to advance workplace wellness among the members of the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce, WellBiz is an exciting new partnership between the Hospital Council’s Lucas County Healthy Communities Foundation, The Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce and Harris HealthTrends.

What is Workplace Wellness?

• Workplace wellness is a focus on health promotion at the worksite.
• Helps employees improve their health and reduce their health risks through healthy lifestyle changes.
• Successful workplace wellness programs reduce health care costs, while improving individual health and productivity.

A workplace wellness program includes a promotional campaign, baseline health assessment and targeted interventions via the Internet, phone, or in person.

WellBiz is a pilot project that will work with companies over a three year period to initiate wellness in the workplace. Several Chamber member companies applied and five companies were chosen. The winners for participation in the three year demonstration program are:

• Bollin Label Systems;
• Brooks Insurance Agency, Inc.;
• Fifth Third Bank;
• Roemer Insurance and Benefits;
• Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP.

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Hospital Council of Northwest Ohio’s Lucas County Healthy Communities Foundation

Since 1999, Lucas County members of the Hospital Council of Northwest Ohio—University of Toledo Medical Center, Mercy Health Partners, and St. Luke’s Hospital—have worked together through the Lucas County Healthy Communities Foundation to further community health improvement with a focus on measurable outcomes. Through the Foundation more than half a million dollars has been committed to a variety of community-based activities that have led to improved health and quality of life in Lucas County. The Hospital Council of Northwest Ohio is a member-driven organization that represents and advocates on behalf of its member hospitals and provides collaborative opportunities to enhance the health status of the citizens of northwest Ohio through programs such as the Lucas County Healthy Communities Foundation.

Harris HealthTrends

Harris HealthTrends, a Healthways Company, is a leading national provider of personalized health management services. Harris HealthTrends works with participants to help them improve their health and reduce their health risks by making healthy lifestyle changes. Successful health improvement reduces health care costs and absenteeism, while improving individual health and productivity. In addition to personalized health management services, Harris HealthTrends provides consulting services, program/data integration and onsite fitness/rehabilitation center management services for clients nationwide.