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American Crisis - Health of our Nation's Truck Drivers

Stewart Levy

In America, nearly 1 of every 15 people in the workforce is employed in the trucking industry, including over 7 million truck drivers on our roads. Read more...

Feb 1, 2012

Comparing the Caring

R. Scott Boots

I sat next to David’s bed in the AIDS hospice the last week of his life and told him that he was a beautiful man. “Thank you,” he said, and I closed the door and softly sang hymns he had in the choir. Read more...

Feb 1, 2012

Why New Year’s Should Be A Time for Corporate Wellness Resolutions

Mark Verstegen

Around the country, motivation to train is never higher than on January 2nd. On-site company gyms are packed,  Read more...

Feb 1, 2012

Energy Boosters

Kathy Gruver, PhD

We’ve all observed children playing. We watch for a second and then say, “Gee, I wish I had their energy.” Read more...

Feb 1, 2012

Medical Self-Care: We Can’t Afford to Ignore It Workplace Wellness not meeting its potential

Jamey Bednez

A comprehensive workplace wellness program can positively impact the wealth of businesses and nearly 60 percenthave embraced this concept with aspirations to avoid the economic strain of thecurrent health care crisis. Read more...

Feb 1, 2012

A Revolutionary Approach to Corporate Wellness

Dr. Steven Hotze

Getting older: It is an inevitable “disease” that plagues us all at some point, and for your executives,age can become their biggest competitor and your company’s biggest threat. Read more...

Feb 1, 2012

10 Reasons Why Your Wellness Program Lacks Participation

Todd McGuire

This is the first installment of a 4 part series on a model for designing and managing a wellness program that gets measurable results. Read more...

Feb 1, 2012

Creating a Culture of Wellness with Employee Outreach and Social Media

Scott Leavitt

As more and more companies start to implement wellness programs to address the continued rise in health care costs and the need for healthier employees. Read more...

Feb 1, 2012

New Apps Improve Employee Wellness

Nancy Sansom

Numerous studies show that improving employee wellness decreases employer healthcare costs. In addition, research directly correlates employee benefits with overall employee satisfaction. Read more...

Feb 1, 2012

The Year of Acceptance… Eating Well for Health & Happiness

Kelly Lavieri

Being healthy starts from within, which for most of us, self acceptance is hard to find. We can easily console our friends and family when a crisis hits. Read more...

Feb 1, 2012

Surviving the STRESS of Downsizing

Dr. Jeffery Gero

In a rapidly changing economy, corporations may have to reduce the size of the full-time workforce.  Read more...

Feb 1, 2012

Simplify Your Life to Reduce Your Stress

Jacquelyn Ferguson

There's nothing simple about the typical American life. We work too hard, treat time like an enemy, amass too much stuff, and sit around too much watching TV while eating too much bad food.  Read more...

Feb 1, 2012

Improving Health Plan Cost and MLR Attainment with eProcurement Why eProcurement for Health Plans?

Dennis Toohey

eProcurement: A uniform and centrally controlled paperless, web-based enterprise process that tightly integrates procurement, accounts payable and accounting. Read more...

Feb 1, 2012

The New Bankruptcy

Courtney Cordero

It is no secret that many people have contemplated bankruptcy due to the financial strain they are facing. Read more...

Feb 1, 2012

Eat For Energy

Celynn Erasmus

Are you battling to bounce out of bed bright eyed and bushy tailed? Looking for more get-up-and-go to make it through 2012? Many of us may fall into the trap of not eating at all for long stretches of the day, breaking for high sugar, high fat snacks and then ending off with a really large supper.  Read more...

Feb 1, 2012