Employee & Corporate Wellness Programs
What if a corporate wellness program could decrease your health care costs by 17%?
This is the kind of success Cornell Health and Nutrition is seeing with our employee wellness programs in Chicago. Do we offer simple solutions? No. But prevention is possible with a practical, tailored corporate wellness program designed by Natalie Cornell.
Consider this: Chronic diseases cost US employers $1.3 trillion a year in lost productivity and treatment costs. Several of these conditions – hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, and sometimes stroke – can be avoided by preventing or reducing obesity. In fact, 30% of the increase in your health care spending over the last 10 years is due to the fact that employees’ obesity has doubled since 1987.
Cornell Health and Nutrition specializes in providing customized corporate nutrition programs for small to mid-sized companies (or those who are self-insured). Our employee wellness programs are designed to reduce health care costs over the long term by helping to prevent obesity and chronic conditions. For larger companies, we provide nutritional consulting services that work together with your existing corporate wellness program to make your employees more successful in living healthier lives
Why Cornell Programs Work
The biggest gap in most employee wellness programs is in the "how" part. How should an employee with a family history of Type 2 diabetes shop and cook differently? How can employees make healthy choices while on the road, or while entertaining clients many nights a week? How can your employees fit exercise into a demanding work week?
Most of the corporate nutrition programs available today rely on the following components:
- Flu shots
- An employee assistance program that someone can call if they have a specific medical problem
- Dietary advice that is very general in nature
At Cornell Health and Nutrition, we do things differently. We come to your office(s) and work directly and privately, if necessary, with your employees. Your employees get to know us and trust us – allowing us to become their advocates and enablers to making wholesale changes in their lives. Your employees are also accountable to us for making changes. We help the changes stick and become new habits.
Contact Cornell Health and Nutrition today to discuss what we can do for your company.