Employee Wellness Coordinators Win With New Health Enhancement Systems YouTube Channel

June 14, 2011 - PRLog -- Health Enhancement Systems (www.hesonline.com) announces a YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/HealthEnhancementSys#p/a/u/0/hP-D0KvPxBU) with several lively 2-minute video clips featuring their innovative employee wellness programs.

Health Enhancement Systems designs products with today’s busy wellness coordinators in mind. All of their fun, engaging evidence-based wellness campaigns promote employee well-being and can reduce employer healthcare costs. They’re easy to implement and monitor, saving wellness coordinators valuable time and energy. Each program comes with a comprehensive guide — specific ideas to support successful implementation, keep participants engaged, and evaluate results. With the new YouTube channel, coordinators can easily preview a sampling of the company’s effective health improvement solutions.

Employers face an ongoing battle to provide workers with affordable health insurance — while costs continue to rise. The 2011 Employer Health Insurance Costs and Compensation report (www.kff.org/insurance/snapshot/Employer-Health-Insurance-Costs-and-Worker-Compensation.cfm) from the Kaiser Family Foundation found average employer costs for health insurance per employee rose nearly 110% between 1999 and 2010.

At the same time, the prevalence of obesity, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and other big cost drivers continues to increase at alarming rates. Employer-sponsored disease management programs are popular, but according to the Partnership for Prevention (www.prevent.org), investing in preventive health practices is more cost-effective than focusing resources solely on the small percentage of employees and dependents with high-cost claims.

Helping employees adopt targeted, sustainable, measurable healthy behaviors can keep them from moving into higher-risk categories. Research shows strategic corporate wellness programming:

•   Reduces employer healthcare expenditures
•   Boosts productivity
•   Promotes a culture of health — an environment that offers benefits for the company, workers, customers, and the overall economy.

Each Health Enhancement Systems wellness campaign features easy-to-navigate websites with engaging graphics, interactive tools, and fun themes that keep employees inspired — and coming back for more. The products focus on adopting simple, everyday behaviors that make a huge difference in long-term health — activities like walking, eating more produce, cutting back on screen time, practicing active relaxation, and building energy/resilience levels.

The new YouTube channel by Health Enhancement Systems features these programs so far:

HealthTrails (http://www.youtube.com/user/HealthEnhancementSys#p/a/u/2/...) is a flexible corporate wellness program; organizations customize a campaign to match their employee health priorities — from physical activity, nutrition, and stress management to sleep and social connections. With simple tracking tools and compelling virtual trails, participants are motivated to practice healthy habits.

Feel Like a Million (http://www.youtube.com/user/HealthEnhancementSys#p/u/3/B4...) uses a retro game show theme to engage workers in simple energy-boosting, stress-reducing activities every day for better health and productivity.

Colorful Choices (http://www.youtube.com/user/HealthEnhancementSys#p/u/1/hu...) makes good nutrition simple — there’s no calorie counting, no weighing or measuring, and no fat gram tabulating. Employees are inspired to eat a colorful variety of produce every day with a drag-and-drop “blender” tool to track their progress — boosting their intake of antioxidants, phytochemicals, and other protective nutrients.


“Employers need wellness programs that are effective, easy to use, convenient, and don’t take a lot of time to implement and manage,” notes Dean Witherspoon, CEO and founder of Health Enhancement Systems. “Our new YouTube channel gives wellness coordinators an entertaining, informative way to preview some of our most popular products — all designed to inspire sustainable action, promote well-being for even hard-to-reach employees, and take a substantial bite out of employer healthcare costs.”

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Health Enhancement Systems creates employee wellness programs for organizations in North America and throughout the world. More than 20 effective, engaging HES wellness campaigns have been adopted by over a thousand organizations — serving hundreds of thousands of participants successfully.

For more information about Health Enhancement Systems, visit (www.HealthEnhancementSystems.com) or call 800.326.2317.