The National Business Group on Health, an organization of 266 large employers, has presented its Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles award to 41 companies.
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"Wellness and lifestyle improvement programs are rapidly becoming a top priority at many large employers, and with good reason," says Helen Darling, president of the Business Group. "Employers are recognizing that there is a direct link between healthy and engaged workers, high productivity, and controlling rising health costs."
The group says that this year's award winners offer a wide variety of wellness programs, including onsite fitness and health clinics, weight-management programs, smoking cessation programs, health coaches, web-based health and fitness tools, and incentives for participating in fitness programs and health risk assessments.
The group recognized companies in one of three categories:
- Platinum, for established "Healthy Weight, Healthy Lifestyles" programs with measurable success and documented outcomes;
- Gold, for creating cultural and environmental changes that support employees who are committed to long-term behavior changes; and
- Silver, for employers who have launched programs or services to promote living a healthier lifestyle.
The winners in each category follow. You can find a short description of the companies' wellness programs here.
Platinum
- Baptist Health South Florida
- Dell, Inc.
- FPL Group
- Hannaford Brothers Company
- IBM
- Kellogg Company
- Motorola, Inc.
- Pitney Bowes, Inc.
- Principal Financial Group
- Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Union Pacific Railroad
Gold
- AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals
- Bath Iron Works, A General Dynamics Company
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Inc.
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina
- Campbell Soup Company
- CIGNA
- Cisco
- General Mills, Inc.
- Gilsbar, Inc.
- H-E-B
- Intel Corporation
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
- Medtronic, Inc.
- Northeast Utilities
- Pepsi Bottling Group
- Quest Diagnostics
- Roche
- Unum
- Volvo Group (including Mack Trucks, Inc.)
- WaMu
Silver
- EMC Corporation
- Fiserv, Inc.
- JC Penney Corporation, Inc.
- Pfizer Inc.
- PRO Sports Club
- Sprint Nextel Corporation
- Target Corporation
- Verizon Wireless
- Visant Corporation
- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.