Case New Holland Wins Gold Well Workplace Award for Results-Oriented Health Management Program

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- HealthFitness client Case New Holland (CNH) has been recognized by the Wellness Council of America (WELCOA) as a winner of the Gold Well Workplace Award. The manufacturer of agricultural and construction equipment was recognized for achieving at the highest level across seven benchmarks for results-oriented health management programs.

CNH launched The Picture of Health wellness program in 2008 and it is available to approximately 8,000 U.S. employees in 14 states.  Leveraging a wellness champion network of 24 employees across the organization, the program  builds employee awareness of the value of better health, engages them in discovering their personal health risks, increases understanding of interventions and inspires action to change. Nearly 90 percent of the employee population has participated in at least one health management activity since the program began in 2008; in 2011, more than 70 percent of eligible employees earned an incentive for completing a three-step health risk awareness assessment and confidential health advisement process.

HealthFitness return on investment analysis of the program showed CNH saved $2.58 in health claims costs for every $1 spent on the program after the first two years. The percentage of employees in the high health risk category has declined in each year. 

"As a manufacturer with multiple locations, CNH has wisely launched a health management program that infused health risk awareness and health improvement into its company culture," said HealthFitness President and CEO Paul Lotharius. "CNH's wellness champions are workers on the manufacturing floor and other front-line leaders who have successfully helped employees embrace a culture of health. The program's positive outcomes show that investing in employee health produces healthier, more productive workers and can lower the health care cost trend."

HealthFitness partners with CNH to provide health risk assessments, biometric screening, EMPOWERED® Health Coaching services and health improvement activities. In addition, wellness champions design their own local initiatives to encourage better health management, ranging from healthy cooking demonstrations to biggest loser competitions to snowball bowling competitions.

Gold Well Workplaces are companies that have successfully built comprehensive worksite wellness initiatives and are demonstrating and documenting concrete outcomes. WELCOA developed the Well Workplace Awards initiative to advance an aggressive national worksite wellness agenda.

Read more about engaging employees in worksite population health programs. Download the newest HealthFitness issue brief, Infusing Health in Your Sphere of Influence, at http://www.hfit.com/briefs.cfm.

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