Our Mission is to Reduce the Cost of Employee Benefits
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Benefits of Healthy Employees
Enhance your Company Image
It’s also important to consider the effect of healthy employees on your company’s image and influence in the community.
By supporting the wellness of your employees, your organization is demonstrating a certain degree of social responsibility. They’re building their reputation as an organization that supports their workforce, and therefore will likely be seen as a welcome “neighbor” in the community.
Improve Productivity
Organizations that value and promote a healthy lifestyle may have an edge when it comes to attracting and retaining key people. In addition, their employees may be more alert and more productive.
Productivity also relates to an employees ability to work for longer periods of time and effectively concentrate on their work. Partnership for a Healthy Workforce (PHW) reports that a healthy workforce will lead to reduced absenteeism and lost time, and can also positively effect employee turnover.
Lower Healthcare Costs
This is an obvious benefit of having healthy employees, but sometimes can be a hard argument to make because of the potential for a large investment in your employees. Time and time again, studies have proven that having healthy employees can dramatically decrease healthcare costs – some examples from PHW:
Smokers generated 31% higher claim costs than non-smokers
Workers with unhealthy weights had 143% higher hospital inpatient utilization than those with healthy weights
Employees with just a few risk factors cost much less than employees with numerous risk factors
According to the Wall Street Journal Health Blog, “Some companies are giving additional incentives to workers who follow through and actually try to lower their risk factors.” What employee wouldn’t benefit from saving some money and improving their health?
Savings can be realized through any scale of program – from comprehensive company-wide wellness programs to single activities to promote healthy lifestyles. And the savings are real: a Dallas-based company of 6,500 employees instituted a wellness program, and in just one year with half of its employees participating, they saved $500,000 in health care costs, according to the News Press.
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During the last forty years we have been working with local employers to create benefit plans that work to engage employees in making healthy lifestyle decisions, reduce employer costs without shifting additional costs to the employees all while improving productivity and member satisfaction.
Keith R. Leitzen and his professional staff bring to the table nearly forty years of insurance knowledge. A network of valuable and talented individuals to provide the necessary resources to add value to your bottom line instead of just being an expense item on the P&L statement.
Doing business with people you Know Like and Trust – a business goal that has proven itself time and time again. Our promise
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