Mission Health has launched MyHealthyLifeTM WellConnect, a highly interactive wellness platform that is focused on connecting the western North Carolina region to help our community get well, stay well and be well. MyHealthyLifeTM WellConnect provides wellness services and health management support to improve employee health and engagement, enhance productivity, help lower the costs of healthcare, and improve rates of absenteeism, presenteeism and disability.
“As western North Carolina’s own national Top 15 Health
System, Mission Health is taking the lead in population health management,”
said Kathy Bumgarner, Mission Health Vice President of Total Rewards. “We
believe this journey starts with our own employees, making sure we have the
right wellness tools and resources in place to in turn make them available to
the wider employer community.”
Today’s launch focuses on nearly 5,000 of Mission Health’s
own staff members, and by September will expand to the more than 8,000 eligible
employees throughout Mission Health. Mission will make this same platform
available to other local employers later this year.
“Mission Health understands that having healthier caregivers
translates to improved patient care and better employee productivity,” said
Marc B. Westle, DO, Mission Health Senior Vice President of Innovation. “An
investment in employees’ wellness improves health, productivity and staff
engagement, so in turn it saves the employer money. Mission wants to be a model
for population health management and employer wellness services.”
MyHealthyLifeTM
WellConnect features an engaging, personalized web portal accessible via
computer, tablet and smartphone app. A Personal Health Assessment questionnaire
identifies risk factors and provides related education to help participants
understand identified risks. Participants can then use this report in health
management conversations with their physicians.
Online educational content and tracking tools focus on a broad range of
wellness topics, including exercise, nutrition, healthy weight management,
disease management, smoking cessation and more.
In addition, the web portal offers fun and engaging wellness trackers
and incentive campaigns that can tie incentives to points and/or desired
wellness outcomes and support both participant and employer wellness goals.
Program participants may purchase a personal fitness
tracker, the FitLinxx Pebble®, which tracks a wide range of activities
including walking, running, elliptical, biking, swimming and more. This tracker
automatically transmits participant activity data via offload locations and/or
a personal SyncPoint. SyncPoints are already available in most Mission Health
campus buildings and all western North Carolina YMCA locations, with future
plans to locate more SyncPoints in high traffic areas around the region.
For more information about MyHealthyLifeTM WellConnect contact Anna Walz, Mission
Health Director of Wellness, at 828-213-3588 or anna.walz@msj.org.
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