Sensia Healthcare Earns Well Workplace Award
Sensia's Commitment to Employee Wellness is Honored
The Wellness Councils of America, with its local affiliate, the Wellness Council of Wisconsin, recently presented Sensia Healthcare with its Small Business Well Workplace Award.
The Well Workplace Award recognizes an organization for its commitment to the health and well-being of its employees. The Well Workplace designation is awarded throughout the year to employers from around the nation.
Sensia Healthcare is a 2009 Platinum Sponsor of the Wellness Council of Wisconsin, and a Charter Member of the City of Milwaukee's Well City Initiative.
Sensia Healthcare's Wellness initiatives include: health risk assessments and biometric screenings; fitness and weight loss challenges; nutrition education; community walks and service opportunities; self-care library and weekly Health Bytes; and supportive wellness policies for its employees.
Andrew Seter, MD, president/CEO of Sensia Healthcare, believes, "The future of health care is prevention, and employees and employers will benefit from a strategic commitment to worksite wellness. Given the majority of chronic illness and health care costs in our country today are the result of preventable illnesses, a personal commitment to wellness by the business community makes good business sense."
The Well Workplace Awards initiative is driven by a rigorous set of criteria. Since its inception in 1991, more than 1,000 organizations, ranging from educational institutions to organizations in both the public and private sector, have earned the Well Workplace Award and are recognized as some of America's Healthiest Companies.
David Hunnicutt, president of Wellness Councils of America, stated, "In a time when the health of our nation's workers is not what it should be and health care costs consistently reflect this trend, the Well Workplace initiative provides employers with a powerful approach to stemming the tide of increasing costs and systematically working toward improving the health and well-being of Sensia's most valuable asset - Sensia's employees."
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MILWAUKEE AWARDED OFFICIAL WELL CITY USA DESIGNATION
DESIGNATION SUPPORTS THE CITY’S VITAL EFFORT TO ENHANCE THE HEALTH
AND WELL-BEING OF THE REGION
Milwaukee – Once thought of as little more than the city of cheese, sausage, and beer, Milwaukee is now officially a Well City. Mayor Tom Barrett and local business leaders gathered today at City Hall to announce Milwaukee’s official Well City USA designation. The three-year effort establishes Milwaukee as a healthy place to live and work, and recognizes Milwaukee’s strides to promote healthy lifestyles in the workplace, as well as in the greater Milwaukee community.
Well City USA, a nationally recognized program of the Wellness Council of America (WELCOA) is a community-wide initiative that encourages employers to develop worksite wellness programs that meet the standards of excellence as defined by WELCOA’s Well Workplace Model.
As one of only three communities in the nation selected to initiate a Well City project in 2007, the Milwaukee community was awarded the official Well City USA designation today by WELCOA for becoming a national leader in wellness, and creating a more vibrant and productive workforce by promoting healthy lifestyles.
“The Well City USA designation shows us that Milwaukee is working in a positive direction towards promoting the health and well-being of individuals in the community,” said Janet McMahon, Executive Director of Well City Milwaukee. “Well City Milwaukee fits with the image we want to project as a city – revitalized, vibrant, active and progressive.”
The designation effort, led by Well City Milwaukee, consisted of a series of benchmarks over a threeyear period, which included participation by local businesses and organizations who implemented wellness programs. As part of the designation process, a total of 20 employers representing at least 20 percent of Milwaukee’s employed population needed to achieve accreditation as “Well Workplaces” to earn the designation. In total, 34 employers in Milwaukee met all of the criteria to become accredited.
