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Towlift Wellness Program Sees Results
- 2/11/2010Towlift, Inc., a distributor of lift trucks, is entering into its fourth year of incentive-based, integrated wellness. Towlift has benefited from several years of reduced claim costs in its self funded health care plan and has lead the way in its industry in addressing health care for employees as a risk management challenge and not a pricing issue. After four years of this strategy, Towlift has experienced a reduction of 26% in per capita claims cost and steady improvement in employee heath measures.
David Cannon, Towlift’s CEO and President, credits a strategy presented by Joe Ceccacci, Managing Partner, Stratum Benefit Solutions, Corporate Health IQ and Jim Pshock, President, Bravo Wellness. Dave Cannon notes, “… year after year we were extremely frustrated with the increasing cost of healthcare. So, we decided to be proactive and engage our employees in a plan to tackle this problem head-on. We had to start by educating our workforce on how lifestyle choices including diet, smoking and exercise, directly affect the cost of healthcare. Joe Ceccacci introduced Towlift to innovative risk management strategies that included yearly wellness screenings and a wellness educational campaign that includes smoking cessation programs, exercise incentives, and instructional videos and literature. With the support provided by our HR team, our employees have gained enthusiasm for the program with grassroots wellness committees forming in individual departments to help fellow employees with their fitness goals. The program has empowered employees to be part of the solution to more manageable health care costs.”
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