ASHHRA Health and Wellness Pulse
BENEFITS
World at Work Five years since the Great Recession, the majority of organizations determine the value of employees’ jobs based on a market-pricing approach.
Visit http://www.worldatwork.org/adimLink?id=78252 to view the full article online.
By Melissa A. Winn, Employee Benefit News With employee news feeds brimming with headlines about recent computer hacks and data leaks, employers are showing a growing interest in offering identity theft protection services as a benefit to their worried workforce. Benefit industry experts say the relatively inexpensive voluntary benefit is not only highly-appreciated by employees, but it can also act as a differentiator in a benefit adviser’s sales portfolio.
Visit http://ebn.benefitnews.com/news/voluntary/identity-theft-protection-benefits-boost-business-satisfaction-2745454-1.html to view the full article online.
World at Work About one-third of large employers are "very likely" or "likely" to add a new voluntary benefit or move a current benefit to voluntary in the next 18 months.
Visit http://www.worldatwork.org/adimLink?id=78225 to view the full article online.
By Matthew Stern, BenefitsPro Automation is a hot topic in defined-contribution plans, but while there has been a steady increase in the adoption of features such as automatic re-enrollment and other automatic plan features, they still haven’t reached ubiquity and might never get there.
Visit http://www.benefitspro.com/2015/01/15/401k-automation-may-have-peaked to view the full article online.
CULTURE OF HEALTH
By Liz Neporent, ABC News St. Joseph’s Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, hosts a farmers market every Wednesday in its main lobby featuring produce gown on the hospital’s 25 acre farm. The land used for the farm was a hospital lawn until 2010 when a horse-drawn plow broke ground on the first four acres. The farm, now known as "The Farm at St. Joe’s," has since expanded to include three large "hoop houses," greenhouse-like structures that provide seasonal produce for the market – as well as patient meals, the hospital’s cafeteria and local food banks – all year long.
Visit http://abcnews.go.com/Health/hospitals-taking-food-medicine-heart/story?id=27765127 to view the full article online.
By Josh Stevens, Employee Benefit News "Wellness" programs are currently undergoing a major evolution. As government policy continues to shift responsibility for health maintenance from employer to employee, wellness initiatives are turning out to be simply a piece of the bigger puzzle in health care’s key to overall wellness: health management.
Visit http://ebn.benefitnews.com/news/health-care/health-management-is-the-new-wellness-2745372-1.html to view the full article online.
By Leslie Small, FierceHealthcare With hand hygiene a key factor in the fight against deadly hospital-acquired infections, the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare decided to tackle the issue by conducting its first patient safety project on the subject, the results of which are published in several articles in the Joint Commission's Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.
Visit http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/one-size-fits-all-no-way-improve-hand-hygiene-compliance/2015-01-07 to view the full article online.
By Leslie Small, FierceHealthcareWorking in health care, it turns out, may be hazardous to your health. Nurses who work rotating night shifts have an increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease (CVD) as well as lung cancer according to a study of nearly 75,000 female registered nurses set to be published in the March 2015 edition of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Visit http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/rotating-night-shift-work-puts-nurses-jeopardy/2015-01-05 to view the full article online.
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