Work/Life Trends
New Online Services Help LifeCare Clients Minimize Health Risks, Reduce Medical Expenses
Work/Life Offers Ideal Platform for Corporate Health and Wellness Initiatives

LifeCare clients can now sign up for two new web-based services designed to help them improve the health of their employees while reducing medical expenses for the organization and employees alike. These new services are a state-of-the-art Health Risk Assessment (HRA) tool and a suite of interactive Healthy Living Programs (HLPs), which LifeCare is offering in partnership with two highly respected organizations: Miavita, a leader in the delivery of action-oriented health programs, and Gordian Health Solutions, a leading creator of results-oriented wellness and disease management solutions.

The HRA generates a detailed report of an employee’s health risk factors and recommends tests, medical services and lifestyle changes to minimize future risks. The online HLPs are action-oriented, six-week programs that address a variety of health issues such as cancer, diabetes, smoking, stress, diet and nutrition. What makes LifeCare’s integrated offering truly unique is the fact that the HRA delivers a comprehensive risk report and action plan with direct links to the specific HLPs that individuals can immediately enroll in to begin improving their health.

“That’s the true power of our integrated health and wellness offerings—enabling employees to take immediate, positive action to reduce their particular health risks,” says LifeCare co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Jeffrey A. Burki. “We're offering a level of immediacy and personalization that other providers simply don't match. And we believe that this makes a tremendous difference in the quality of the service we provide and in the success rates of clients and employees who are serious about managing and reducing their health risks and overall costs.”

Work/Life – The Perfect Platform

Burki notes that LifeCare has been diligently enhancing its health and wellness content for the past several months, adding thousands of articles and a host of online tools such as a health encyclopedia, a symptom checker, a drug database and more.

The reason behind this renewed focus on health and wellness? “It’s simple,” Burki states. “Work/life is an ideal platform for offering health and wellness programs to employees. In too many organizations, these programs are offered through the organizations' medical carriers and this creates problems. First of all, these carriers typically don't promote health and wellness programs with regularity or with much creativity. The programs simply go unnoticed and unused. And second, many employers have multiple medical carriers, none of which deliver exactly the same health and wellness programs. So there’s a lack of consistency in what's being offered to employees—and no way to get company-wide wellness reporting. In other organizations, employees have medical coverage through a spouse, so they're not even eligible to take advantage of particular health programs.”

No such problem exists when health and wellness programs are delivered through a work/life platform, Burki says. “Work/life offerings reach everyone in an organization, so a platform such as LifeCare’s can deliver the best possible results in terms of consistency and utilization.”

LifeCare also offers clients health and wellness resources and referrals, online content from Healthwise, on-site screenings, fitness club subsidy administration, discounts on health and wellness products and services, and on-site seminars to help employers provide well-rounded, uniform wellness programs to employees.

“We’re absolutely delighted to be partnering with Miavita and Gordian, two organizations that are widely known for their quality and their commitment to people,” Burki says. “Like LifeCare, they’re dedicated to helping people improve their quality of life, both on and off the job.”