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Small and Mid Sized Employers Can Benefit from Wellness Programs by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

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Posted Mon 25 Aug 2008 3:24pm Smaller companies have been slower to adopt wellness programs. Part of it might be the issue that to save money on health care costs, you have to spend money ; part... by small and midsized companies, a higher percentage of employees participate when compared to wellness programs. According to a study by Principal as reported in Business Read on »

Wellness Key to Small Business Insurance Plan by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted Sun 24 Aug 2008 9:57pm plans for them. This is also one feature of GOP Sen. John McCain's health care proposal . Well, a program in Iowa set up to let small employers join together to buy... hopes the wellness efforts head off a problem that plagued an earlier generation of association health plans. The problem was that employers with relatively healthy workers wound Read on »

A small victory in a larger war (well competition)… by slimminsam Posted Tue 26 Jan 2010 7:47am there who hate what the BL represents, but I have to think it does some good for many people. While I agree incubating healthy living in an environment without stresses can set up.... The imagination is awesome, and I truly believe in some small way, living in the world of reading allows me to melt away my stress and worries. It has helped me relax during tenuous times Read on »

UltraWellness Key #4: How these small molecules can keep your body from going haywire... by Mark Hyman, M.D. Medical Doctor

Posted Wed 17 Sep 2008 12:21am Welcome to Week Five of our journey to UltraWellness. This week I'll show you how the small molecules that help keep your body in balance may have gone haywire... feel. Why? We are living out of harmony with our natural biological rhythms. The cause: The small molecules that help keep your body in balance have gone haywire Read on »

Small Employees Should Tap Into Wellness Programs for Healthcare Cost Containment by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted Tue 26 Aug 2008 11:45am important benefits that offered by small employers in the battle to recruit and retain good workers. This even though health insurance rates rose by 10% on average, and small businesses struggle with the increased cost burden. Small businesses have not turned to wellness programs as a strategy to contain or curb healthcare cost increases Read on »

Wellness Lunch and Learns: An Innovative Way to Market Yourself and Promote Your Small Business by Serene Kitchen Posted Fri 21 May 2010 10:13am , schedules, coupons, and whatever other marketing brochures that you have to pass out. More on Wellness Small Business: Social Responsibility of Small Businesses Don’t Advertise Like... This past week I participated in a Yoga Lunch and Learn through one of my corporate clients here in Columbia. It took about two hours out of my day and just a little work Read on »

Small Business, Wellness, and HIPAA (cont'd.) by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted Mon 25 Aug 2008 4:06am A recent article from Fortune Small Business touts the benefits of employee wellness programs for small companies . It gets into the issues of whether giving employees incentives to participate in wellness plans--or penalties for failing to--is legal under HIPAA. We've written about this issue of HIPAA and wellness a lot on this blog, and it's one Read on »

Small Employers Can Benefit From Wellness Programs by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:30pm Traditionally, fewer small companies invest in wellness than large companies. About 65% of companies with 100-499 employees have wellness programs, versus 78% with more than 500 employees. But many small employees have found that wellness programs pay off. United Educators, a specialized insurance and risk management company based Read on »

Wellness Programs for Small Businesses by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted Fri 22 May 2009 4:26pm In its most recent issue, the American Journal of Health Promotion discusses the challenge of bringing employee wellness programs to small businesses. It's an important subject: The same issues affecting large corporations--rising health care costs, absenteeism, and reduced productivity--impact small businesses with even greater force. Small Read on »

Wellness Incentives for Small Businesses by Fiona G. Healthy Living Professional

Posted Tue 26 Aug 2008 11:45am Quickly, I like what they are doing in DesMoines in terms of incentives for small businesses who adopt wellness programs . To quote: "Wellness Incentives and Health Insurance Tax Credits for Small Business – The Partnership supports incentives for businesses to implement wellness and prevention programs for its employees. Wellness and prevention Read on »