| Upcoming Events |
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M & M - March 26
Board of Directors Meeting - April 14
Sponsor Dinner - May 10
Annual Meeting - May 11
Diabetes Roundtable - June 1
Executive Committee Strategy Session - June 8 | |
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| Fourth Annual Meeting |
The South Carolina Business Coalition on Health will be hosting its 4th Annual Meeting on Tuesday May 11, 2010 from 8:00am to 4:00pm. Lunch will be included.
The location of this event will be:
Hyatt Regency Greenville
220 North Main Street
Greenville, SC 29601
Speakers:
Dee Edington, MD, Director of Health Management Research, University of Michigan - Sponsored by CIGNA
Jake Glover, Director of Health & Wellness Initiatives, America's Health Insurance Plans
Kathleen Herath, RN, BSN CRRN, Associate Vice President of Health & Productivity, Nationwide
Leah Binder, CEO, The Leapfrog Group
Francois de Brantes, CEO, Bridges to Excellence
All attendees must be registered. The Annual Meeting is free for all SCBCH members and their guests. Registration fee for non-members is $100. Please make checks payable to SCBCH and mail to 301 University Ridge, Suite 5050, Greenville, SC 29601.
If you would like to register, please contact Wendy Simmer at wsimmer@scbch.org or 864-467-3255. |
| Congratulations to Annmarie Higgins |
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BMW names new HR head
Annmarie Higgins has been named BMW Manufacturing Co.'s vice president of human resources. She is succeeding Kathleen Wall, who will retire at the end of the year.
Please click here to view article.
Source: Greenville News |
| Creating a "Culture of Health" |
Not so long ago, organizations gave very little thought to the non-occupational health of their company's most valuable asset-people. The issues companies were concerned about were safety, quality, productivity and profitability. (Coincidentally, these objectives still drive most compensation programs.) Companies spent a lot of money on preventive maintenance, or technology protection of their capital equipment, but very little attention was given to prevent breakdowns or 'downtime' of their human assets.
Please click here to view the full article. |
| Cashless Carrots: Boosting wellness participation without monetary incentives |
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Employers recognize that incentives can be powerful tools to nudge their employees to participate in health promotion programming. However, finding the right incentive can be challenging.
Please click here to read the full article.
Source: Employee Benefit News |
| Do Wellness Programs Make Cents? |
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While employee health-improvement programs have become more and more popular as a way to contain firms' health-care costs in recent years, very few companies actually know how much their investments in such programs as on-site flu shots and free annual checkups are yielding, according to a recent survey of large employers by Fidelity Investments and the National Business Group on Health
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Source: CFO.com |
| Mental Health Parity Interim Final Regulations Formally Released |
On February 2. the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Treasury formally released interim final regulations, implementing the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) of 2008.
These regulations impose significant restrictions on how a plan may define its benefits, compare benefits for purposes of applying parity and utilize medical management practices.
Please click here for more information.
Source: NBCH |
| National Cancer Control Month |
Each year, the President proclaims April as "Cancer Control Month" in order to highlight advances made against cancer and to rededicate the nation to fighting this disease.
Cancer is one of the most preventable life-threatening diseases facing Americans today. You can significantly reduce your risk for cancer if you:
- Improve your diet
- Increase your physical activity
- Quit smoking
- Get screened
The American Cancer Society offers a number of cancer awareness programs during this month and throughout the year.
To learn more, please click on the links below.
Sources:
American Cancer Society
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| April is National Donate Life Month |
Every day in April, people across the U.S. make a special effort to celebrate the tremendous generosity of those who have saved lives by becoming organ, tissue, marrow, and blood donors and to encourage more Americans to follow their fine example.
You can help by making it known that you want to be a donor and by becoming a donation advocate.
For more information, please visit:
Source: OrganDonor.gov | |
If you have any questions or comments about the newsletter or have suggestions on ideas for articles, please e-mail them to wsimmer@scbch.org
Please visit our website - www.scbch.org | |
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