Gold Standard Best Practices: Prevention

80% by 2018

Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death among men and women combined, but it is also one of the most preventable types of cancer. Across Vidant Health's 29 county service area, screening rates are low. For a cancer that is preventable and treatable if found early through screening, 1 out of every 3 people in North Carolina are not getting the...

Nutrition Makeover

In 2010 a committee was established to provide guidance and suggestions for the wellness program. The objective was to remove a majority of fried items with a few exceptions, start a grab & go program, add a healthy grill menu, and focus all new promotions towards a healthy lifestyle. The committee started the process by introducing small changes in phases.

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Work | Life Center

SAS’ corporate culture and benefits package tie in perfectly with the Five Pillars. The Recreation & Fitness Center offers an abundance of exercise and wellness programs. The Work/Life Center helps employees balance busy personal and professional lives. With unrestricted access to preventive services at the Health Care Center and a medical plan that pays 100 percent for...

Healthy Options at Employee Cafeterias 

Two RWJBarnabas Health sites have gone “Fryless” and have also instituted pricing structures to offer healthy food and beverages at lower prices than unhealthy options.  Vending offerings have also changed to provide 100% healthy options in these two sites. Other RWJBarnabas sites currently offer  70% healthy vending options and are following suit to ...

Tobacco Cessation initiative

Our Tobacco Cessation initiative focuses on Population Health Risk Reduction Strategy, utilizes EHR to identify and refer tobacco users, offers free cessation resources for every patient using tobacco, promotes use of the Texas tobacco quit line, and impacts over 1.2 million Baylor Scott & White patients. 

The tobacco status review begins when a provider...

Activity and Exercise at Work

RWJBarnabas Health encourages exercise by rewarding employees for participating in activities and/or joining a Fitness center.  To help reinforce this message, we have 5 affiliated Fitness and Wellness Centers and 3 onsite fitness centers in our system.  Discounted rates are also offered for these and other commercial centers throughout New Jersey.  We have a...

Grow2Heal Garden

The Grow2Heal garden at Homestead Hospital is a creative solution to ongoing challenges with chronic disease management and preventive healthcare.

Hospital leadership dedicated vacant land adjacent to the hospital to develop an organic – and sustainable – garden as a way to offer employees and the community fresh, nutritious foods with a far-reaching impact.

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Zen in 10

The University of North Dakota (UND) was the first university to become accredited by the CEO Cancer Gold Standard. The vision is to have healthy, thriving employees and be an innovative national leader in worksite wellness. Obesity and sedentary behavior is on the rise, and staff and faculty reported time management and forgetting about worksite wellness as leading barriers...

The Billion-Step Challenge

At Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina CEO supported wellness challenges are hosted each year that engage over 50 percent of the population. For the past two years we have noticed the need for Increased physical activity In the workplace and have focused our programs around this. In 2014, the Ready Step Go! Program gave over 3,000 employees Fitbits, where...

Breast Health and Wellness: The Moffitt Difference

February is National Cancer Prevention Month. Studies show that currently one out of every three cancer cases could possibly have been prevented through simple lifestyle changes including eating a nutritious diet, exercising regularly and maintaining a healthy body weight. In addition to helping prevent cancer, these measures can also reduce...

Smoking Cessation Coaches

In addition to being a smoke free campus RWJBH is Partnering with American Lung association in training 16 people within our organization to become smoking cessation coaches for our employees.  These employees will be able to help their colleagues with the behavior changes needed to quit through the Freedom From Smoking program.  This 8 week program provides...

PowerUP Your Health

PowerUP Your Health is a reimagined health fair that brought meaningful value to Vanderbilt's workforce. At this event, employees were encouraged to play an active role in their health by leveraging digital tools and on-site access to clinical services, appointment  scheduling and medical experts. Some of the event's stations included:

Health Hub - ...

Gold Standard Pillar 1: Prevention

Tobacco-free Workplace
1.    LiDestri policy states tobacco-free workplace (including e-cigarettes) on all company property.
2.    Reimbursement to employee and/or spouse for smoking cessation treatments, this is not limited to one trial due to the fact it has been proven to require multiple attempts for success
3.    LiDestri...

Starting in March of 2018, Vidant Medical Center opened a brand new cancer facility. Part of the goal when opening the new tower was that the community (including employees) would see the cancer center as a place where they can learn how to prevent cancer, not just be treated for it. We added outpatient mammography and ultrasound services and started a campaign targeted toward our employees, urging them to complete...

Tobacco Free Worksites

BD's purpose is "advancing the world of health" and we are committed to providing a tobacco free work environment to support the health and vitality of our associates. Since 2011, BD has embraced the "Five Pillars" of the Gold Standard and is proud to provide a tobacco-free worksite for all US associates. As part of that commitment, we are excited to announce...

Johnson & Johnson aspires to have the healthiest workforce by helping our employees live well across their whole lives, providing flexibility and a breadth of whole-life health benefits including energy management tools and wellness resources. Our role as an employer is to provide an environment that fosters healthy choices so employees can achieve their personal best in body, mind and spirit, igniting full...

Tobacco Cessation Team

Hendrick Medical Center is committed to helping our employees become and remain tobacco free. We have a team consisting of a Pharmacist, Employee Wellness Navigator and a Tobacco Treatment Specialist. Together this team works to provide the best possible assistance for our employees including free Tobacco Cessation counseling, free nicotine replacement products and a...