Indiana Chamber of Commerce

Indiana stories:

Success stories at 12 companies and organizations from INShape web site. Companies include: Advantage Health Solutions, Evansville State Hospital, Celadon, New Albany Housing Authority, Tippecanoe Community Health Clinic, Indiana Department of Education, Herff Jones, Press Ganey, Gibson Insurance Group, OFS (Styline), Moorehead Communications and Odyssey Group.

Studies from elsewhere:

Comprehensive wellness program, unique team approach allows Crayola to bring all colors to the table to improve employee health. Health Care. Ames Gross and Andrew Connor Employee Benefit News, June 15, 2007
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Nursing Homes: Long Term Care Management, November 2006, Vol. 55, Issue 11. A staff wellness plan increased the return on investment of health care insurance plans for Redstone Presbyterian SeniorCare.

The Road to Wellness Is Starting at the Office; Employers' Efforts to Push Preventive Care Begin to Show Both Health and Cost Benefits, M.P. McQueen. Wall Street Journal. (Eastern edition). New York, N.Y.: December 5, 2006. pg. D.1 “When Cadmus Communications Corp. began requiring employees to undergo a health-risk assessment to qualify for medical coverage, some workers feared their medical conditions could cost them their jobs. But Stephanie Metzger credits the mandatory testing with possibly saving her life.”
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An Approach to Disease Management
Pitney Bowes Experience. Jack Mahoney, MD, Corporate Medical Director. Stamford, CT. December 2006. PowerPoint presentation with cost savings data. 54 slides.

NASA Summary Report: Integrating Employee Health: A Model Program for NASA
6 page summary, Institute of Medicine, June 2005

American Cast Iron Pipe Co.: plan and results Birmingham, AL.  "Fighting Costs with Good Health". Modern Casting, Rebecca K Kelly, September 1, 2003.  Details of a successful plan. Cost savings statistics.

The Long-Term Impact of Johnson & Johnson’s Health & Wellness Program on Employee Health Risks. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Volume 44, Number 5, May 2002 p. 417 Ron Z. Goetzel, PhD et al.

Characteristics of Successful Wellness Programs
Powell PhD, Don R., Employee Benefits Journal, September 99, Vol. 24, Issue 3. Statistics on Steelcase and DuPont case studies of extra costs for employees with various risky behaviors. Data on most popular wellness programs. Components of a wellness program. Savings statistics from 13 studies, 1994-1997.

Lowering health care premiums by increasing staff wellness By: Hodge, Jim
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Bank One, General Motors, Progressive, Steelcase company studies, $15 each from Health Management Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

C. Everett Koop National Health Award Winners, 1994 to present.  Description, contact person and summary data, evaluation summary, evaluation documentation, critique. Awards made by The Health Project, Stanford University.  The Project “is a private-public organization formed to bring about critical attitudinal and behavioral changes in the American health care system, so that providers and consumers employ its vast resources with increasing knowledge and understanding.” Company web site 11-29-07

2007 Pepsi Bottling Group – Healthy Living

2005 Union Pacific Project Health Track

2004 UAW-GM LifeSteps Health Promotion Program

2002 FedEx Express - FedEx Express Health Risk Reduction and Cost Reduction Program, Hawaii Medical Service Association– HealthPass, Motorola - Global Wellness Initiatives

2001 Citibank—Health Management Program, Northeast Utilities—WellAware, Union Pacific Railroad—Project Health Track

1999 Steelcase (PDF)

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