Demand for Employee Wellness Programs Drives Growth, Office Move for Health Enhancement Systems

May 9, 2011 - PRLog -- Health Enhancement Systems (www.hesonline.com), which offers a collection of targeted employee wellness solutions to promote lasting behavior change, is rolling out several new and innovative programs this year. The company is moving to new office space to allow for continued expansion as it works to meet the growing demand for effective employee health promotion resources.

According to the National Business Group on Health (www.businessgrouphealth.org/), modifiable behaviors — such as lack of physical activity, poor nutrition, and uncontrolled stress — are responsible for substantial employer costs resulting from illness, injury, and reduced productivity. Yet targeted, sustainable, and measurable healthy habits can help by reducing risk levels. Strategic corporate wellness programming lowers healthcare expenses, raises productivity, and promotes a corporate culture of health — an environment that offers benefits for both the employer and workers.

For example, HealthTrails (http://www.healthtrails.com) gives corporate wellness coordinators the flexibility to choose health behaviors to focus on — fitness, nutrition, stress management, weight control, or whatever priorities their organization determines. This recently launched campaign uses virtual trails, with vivid photographs and fascinating descriptions of destinations around the world, to inspire participants.

Dependent healthcare costs also are soaring. Children and teens account for 14.7% of a large employer’s typical healthcare expenses ― not including the productivity loss for working parents of sick and injured children, according to the National Business Group on Health (www.businessgrouphealth.org).

All In (www.allinfamilyhealth.com) is a family wellness program with an energizing mountain hike theme. Families improve health in 3 core areas — Move More, Eat for Energy, and Connect — by practicing new behaviors and supporting each other on the way to the summit. Inviting family members to participate in wellness initiatives makes behavior change easier and more sustainable for workers.  All In offers a unique way for employees and their families to work together to achieve lasting health.

A longtime employer favorite, Walktober (www.walktober.com) will relaunch this fall with a fresh look and new features that inspire participants to integrate fitness walking in their everyday routine. The color tour takes employees along a virtual trail from the east to west coast, dotted with stunning, awe-inspiring autumn images.

Other campaigns include:

•   Get Fit on Route 66 (www.getfitonroute66.com): a retro-theme physical activity program that traces the famous highway

•   10K-A-Day (www.10kaday.com): a 10,000 step/day walking program that keeps participants engaged with virtual trails from around the world

•   Feel Like a Million (ifeellikeamillion.com): an energy-boosting, stress-reducing program with a fun game show theme

•   Great American Fitness Adventure (www.greatamericanfitnessadventure.com): a 100-day physical activity program where participants virtually visit 100 national treasures, earning “park stickers” along the way

•   Spring Into Motion (www.springintomotiontoday.com): a simple fitness program where participants choose the activity that will motivate them to shake off the winter doldrums and get moving

•   And others — all designed to keep healthy people healthy and decrease risk levels.

“Keeping employees engaged in wellness programs is a huge challenge,” notes Dean Witherspoon, CEO and founder of Health Enhancement Systems. “For 20 years our programs have been making it easy with engaging graphics, simple tracking tools, and motivating resources to inspire action and promote well-being for even hard-to-reach employees — and their families.”

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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.

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