Health and Wellness Planning Guide

Getting Started - Secure management support

• Justifications for having a Health and Wellness
• Health Risk Assessments (HRAs)
• Help for high-risk population: smokers, obese staff members
• Early detection of diabetes, heart disease risk factors (high cholesterol, high blood pressure)

Health and Wellness Participation - Establish your audience
• Employees only, whole family, retirees?
• Community involvement? Theme?

Health and Wellness Time Line

• Establish a date and time Allow 4-6 months of planning time

Health and Wellness Planning
• Establish health-related screenings, tests, other activities you’ll offer Establish educational literature and other learning opportunities Health and Wellness will provide Include any “fun” activities, or food/beverage needs for the fair

Health and Wellness Location & Logistics

• Consider location big enough to accommodate the largest volume of employees at “peak time” periods
• Determine how booths/stations will be set up

Health and Wellness Vendors

• Target relevant health/safety-related community and corporate vendors to provide services, educational materials, incentives and giveaways

Health and Wellness Marketing

• Determine marketing tools to be used to inform staff members/members (posters, mailings, e-mail)
• Determine any incentives or giveaways that will be included in the fair or used to encourage participation in the fair

Health and Wellness Scheduling

• Coordinate timing and events with staff and/or volunteers

Health and Wellness Personnel

• Schedule appropriate experts Physician or similar health care personnel to provide patient consultation for review of blood draw lab results
• Nurse(s) to administer vaccinations
• Administrative/all-purpose individual to facilitate paper work, finger sticks and to provide general assistance
• Pharmacist or pharmacist assistant if appropriate Dietitian for nutritional counseling suggested personnel designated for health fairs

Footnotes

1 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation via Reuters Health E-Line.
2 Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, (9/11/03)
3 www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/press/archive/lower_cost.htm
4 “Is Stress Nibbling Away at Your Bottom Line?” By Stephen Alper, Nov. 15, 2002.
5 Health Promotion in the Workplace, Michael P. O’Donnell, page 415.
6 http://www.bmpcoe.org/bestpractices/internal/dayto/dayto_6.html