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Bay Bridge Fitness - Corporate Employee Wellness & Fitness Program development, support and promotion for a healthier workplace and productive, positive employee performance. . .Sacramento, Folsom, Roseville, Rocklin, and Reno, Nevada.
Employee Wellness
Are healthier employees your Priority?
Objectives of a corporate employee wellness program:
Reducing your healthcare costs means higher company profits. Our objective is to bring practical health and fitness basics to your workplace with a resultant return-on-investment. Teaching groups to incorporate healthier eating habits and moderate exercise is paramount in today's workplace for employee health and wellness. Our job as your corporate fitness consultant and motivational speaker is education, promotion of a safe worksite health program. Results you should expect are improved worker productivity, increased energy, and reduced absences.
It might surprise you that speeches on employee health and wellness are actually well-received by staff. Employees can listen and learn without the environmental stress of the home-life or a gym. We are committed to organizing, promoting and applying health-wellness programs tailored for your employees. We, at Bay Bridge Fitness, are experienced, consistent, passionate, and enjoy every minute of it.
Bay Bridge Fitness, located just outside Sacramento, can service your employee wellness programs in these counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, Placer, Sacramento, San Francisco, Solano, and Sonoma counties. Review below many statistics and interviews on current employee workplace wellness programs and how they are succeeding in healthcare cost reduction. Including low-cost and small company wellness program ideas.
Bay Bridge Fitness featured in Potentials Magazine, New York. Link here for article
and learn small ways to begin Workplace wellness: Fast Track to Fitness.
Objectives for the individual employee – Physical, Emotional, Mental:
A corporate worksite wellness program also educates individuals yearning to improve their health, with no previous education or support to even try. Unhealthy lifestyles and overweight-related issues often have similar price tags such as: fatigue, depression, negative attitude, poor hygiene, constant illness – with obvious risks for: stroke, heart attack, diabetes, and back ailments. These issues affect work and home life. Proper guidance and practice of fitness and nutrition improvements are vital keys to address these issues. General quality of life becomes better almost immediately. In a short time, the best incentives for adherence to improved health habits are feeling great, looking great, and feeling positive about one's self.
Your Message from Bay Bridge Fitness:
The human mind and body are strong and resilient – know you will Succeed . . . do not expect Failure.
Choose to Grow . . . not to Decline.
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Read about our NEW Corporate Wellness Membership Division
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Bay Bridge Fitness
(530) 889-2920
Insert a Health-Wellness-Fitness section on your employee website with skilled fitness professionals. Bay Bridge Fitness can design and maintain an appropriate Fitness-Wellness Department and company Sports-Fitness section for your company website. Help your employees help YOU reduce health care costs starting now.
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Find new articles below on latest studies in Workplace Wellness programs.
Read about our NEW Corporate Wellness Membership Division
Employee Fitness Outreach Program ~ We Come to You!
2008
Back Injuries top the list of both long and short-term absences.
Back strengthening movements are key to reduced back injuries. And, they work!
Several alternatives to incorporate back-healthy employees in a workplace environment are feasible. As a professional, double ACE-certified personal trainer and group fitness trainer, my outreach program offers several positive options for you:
1. Option: To be at your site one day per month, per week, or bi-weekly for safe, effective employee training and consulting.
- Target: Teach and clarify hands-on, focused back strengthening movements, proper form, results expected.
2. Option: Motivating Seminar Shorts – Uplifting and Interactive – a great start:
- Target: Evaluation of employee response and commitment – a terrific starting point for companies on tight budgets. Seminar Shorts are energizing and interactive.
3. Option: Newsletters promoting safe, targeted exercise moves, advice and coaching.
- Target: Employee consistency, reminders, achievements, program updates.
4. Option: Follow-up communications and evaluations.
- Target: Accountability report to your management.
5. Option: Nutrition planning.
- Target: Improved nutrition through practical nutrition education, realistic eating habits, stroke-free, heart-healthy lifestyle promotion.
[Note: Bay Bridge Fitness uses Nutribase meal plans developed by Certified Dietitian/Nutritionists and Registered Dietetic Counselors with the American Dietetic Association.]
For questions please Contact Gwenn Jones, Manager-Bay Bridge Fitness.
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Bay Bridge Fitness Announces Your Affordable Workplace Wellness Division
Bay Bridge Fitness has launched a Corporate Workplace Wellness Division right here! This employee wellness sector is a Premium Service offered privately to companies dedicated to improving employee health and wellness and reducing healthcare costs. Your company's employees will be able to log-in, learn and apply the most reliable in health-wellness practices and exercises from certified fitness professionals.
 FREE TRIAL - The best news is the Free Trial. The Corporate Health and Wellness Division is absolutely Free for 15 days. BBF is launching this private venue dedicated to companies needing dependable health and wellness for their employees. Why here? Many corporations do not enjoy the alternative or the allocated funds to supervise the construction and maintenance of a dependable workplace wellness area for their employees. Bay Bridge's 'hassle-free' corporate health and wellness division answers this issue and better yet, it is low-cost. Bay Bridge Fitness can service any Corporate website in the U.S..
Is this Corporate Wellness Division impersonal? No. Bay Bridge Fitness is here to assist your employees on the road to better health and reduced worker absences with answers, articles, workouts and more. For questions and suggestions please Contact Bay Bridge Fitness – we want your exciting feedback. Read more about the Bay Bridge Fitness Corporate Wellness Division.
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What are the advantages of employee fitness and wellness programs? Just the principal benefits are exceptional and include:
Reduced health insurance costs with improvements in employees' bodily condition
Less worker absences
Higher energy and productivity levels
Improved attitudes and self-awareness
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Realistic eating habits for healthy weight loss
A valuable recruitment and employee-retention tool
Budget-conscious monitoring plan to encourage fitness adherence
Less stressed, more physically active workforce
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How can a Small-Medium size company on a smaller budget incorporate a fitness-wellness program? There is much a smaller company can do to integrate improved employee health. Please review the articles below to adapt ideas:
Bay Bridge Fitness Challenges TV-News Websites with Health Placement – June 2007: Bay Bridge Fitness pushes Television News websites to feature Health-Fitness sections for public education and guidance.
Fast Track to Fitness – Potentials Magazine, October 2004: An article featuring Bay Bridge Fitness addressing health incentives for smaller companies. –by Jonathan Pont
Small Corporations Need Healthy Employees Too – PRWeb, September 2004: BBF advises small businesses on workable ways to introduce health and fitness practices to reduce absences and increase worker productivity.
Add a Fitness & Wellness Section to your Company's Website. Consider adding articles, exercise guidance, Qs & As in fitness, nutrition and weight loss information, fitness training guidance, current fitness and wellness news stories. A Fitness area on your employees website, maintained entirely by qualified fitness professionals, exhibits your management's commitment to employee health, reduced absences, and improved productivity. Bay Bridge Fitness can create or manage a fitness website department to augment your company's website. Your employees will begin to depend on it and love it. Workplace Wellness Websites.
Infomation specifics regarding fitness-wellness program incorporation:
Corporate Fitness Programs – Fitness-wellness program alternatives.
Personal Fitness Trainer-Fitness Consultant – Details on private or group personal training.
Testimonials & Client Comments – Client feedback over 15 years.
Bio-Background – History and experience of general manager.
General info and ROI Results for workplace wellness programs: Company return-on-investment statistics for Term fitness-wellness programs for some large companies include:
Coors Brewing - 615% (ROI)
Bank of America - 600%
Kennecott - 578%
Equitable Life - 552%
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General Mills - 390%
Travelers Corp. - 340%
Motorola - 315%
DuPont - 205%
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Other U.S. companies with successful programs are: Sprint, Land's End, former-Trans Ocean Ltd, Steelcase Corp., Union Pacific Railroad, General Motors. [Note: Bay Bridge Fitness initiated and ran the Corporate Fitness program on site for Trans Ocean Corp., now TransAmerica Leasing.]
Information & Case Studies relating to fitness and health care costs.
Article Links and URLs below for your convenience.
**Employer Mandated Wellness Initiatives: Respecting Workplace Rights While Controlling Health Care Costs
Littler Report from WELCOA
This Littler Report discusses how far an employer can go toward mandating wellness in the workplace. With health care costs projected to double by 2016, reaching $4.2 trillion and representing 20 percent of every dollar spent, no employer can afford to leave this question unanswered. Health care costs and employer contributions toward health care premiums have increased to the level that they often determine whether a profit is made or whether the employer can continue in business. Employers are seeking new solutions to help curb these increases. This Report discusses whether mandatory wellness programs are viable options given the current state of law.
http://www.littler.com/collateral/16359.pdf (pdf)
**U.S. Companies Embrace 'Wellness' Programs
by Karen Pallarito, HealthDay Reporter
To arrest rising health-care costs, a growing number of U.S. employers are expanding workplace "wellness" initiatives. Providing workers with tools and incentives to improve their health, the thinking goes, will reduce medical-care costs and boost worker productivity.
**Employer to Fine Unhealthy Workers
by Joanne Wojcik
The punitive approach taken by Indianapolis-based Clarian Health is a departure from the methods used by most employers, but it is permitted under the final rules the federal government issued in December 2006. Other employers are expected to follow suit.
While many employers have been using financial incentives to encourage participation in wellness programs, one company will begin charging employees more for their health insurance in 2009 if they allow health risks such as tobacco use, obesity or high cholesterol to go unchecked.
Although this punitive approach by Indianapolis-based Clarian Health is a departure from the methods used by most employers, it is permitted under the final rules the federal government issued in December 2006 to ensure that wellness programs comply with the nondiscrimination provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, benefit experts say. The rules became effective July 1, 2007.
As the cost of health care continues to rise, more employers are expected to follow Clarian’s lead. Read entire article...
-Joanne Wojcik is a senior editor for Business Insurance magazine.
-more Workforce Management news from http://www.workforce.com
**Can health promotion programs really improve employee health and impact the bottom line?
Recently, WELCOA President Dr. David Hunnicutt sat down with Larry Chapman for this discussion.
Excerpt of this interview...
"...Question: That brings up an interesting question that many employers are asking. How much of an employer’s medical costs are related to poor health habits—habits that could be changed through health promotion programs?
Answer: A study published by Dr. David Anderson and his colleagues in a recent edition of the American Journal of Health Promotion found that approximately 25% of all outpatient and inpatient health plan claims for 44,000+ employees over six years, were related to seven major health risks—the health risks that make up the core of most wellness programs. So we know from that study alone that a large proportion of claims are potentially modifiable if organizations implement interventions that address these issues—things like poor nutrition, lack of exercise, excess stress, etc. Read entire interview.
In addition to the study done by Dr. Anderson and his colleagues, we also have vendors in the field that do lifestyle-oriented medical claims analysis. These analyses generally show us that somewhere between 21% and 58% of medical claims are associated with about a dozen risk factors— again, things like poor nutrition, lack of exercise, and high stress.
So what you end up with is reliable estimations that 30% to 60% of health plan costs could potentially be modified or avoided altogether. For most organizations that’s a ton of money. Jim Fries, a good friend and well-respected colleague from Stanford University has written for years that about 70% of health costs are in fact potentially preventable. So there’s a big chunk of economic return possible when looking at potential savings in regard to health plans..." Read entire interview here.
http://www.welcoa.org/freeresources/pdf/chapman_proofpos_051807.pdf (pdf)
2007 - Courtesy of the Wellness Councils of America (WELCOA)
**Looking For Wellness Ideas? Check Out 101 Ways To Wellness.
This document features tips and strategies you can implement today to make your organization a healthier place to work. A WELCOA classic, 101 Ways to Wellness has been utilized by thousands of practitioners.
http://www.welcoa.org/freeresources/index.php?category=8 (pdf)
2001, 2007 - Courtesy of the Wellness Councils of America (WELCOA)
**What is a Healthy Employee Worth?
"...The latest productivity research indicates that individuals with multiple risk factors are absent more, injured more, and return to work more slowly than individuals with fewer risk factors. ..."
- by Dr. Wendy Lynch, Executive Director of The Health as Human, Capital Foundation and Vice President of Strategic Development for HCMS, Inc.
http://www.welcoa.org/freeresources/pdf/healthy_employee_2.pdf (pdf)
2002 -courtesy of the Wellness Councils of America (WELCOA)
**Rewards for Healthy Lifestyles
By Steven P. Noeldner, Ph.D. - Employers can reinforce good employee health by sponsoring healthy lifestyle contests and campaigns. These encourage such behavior as smoking cessation, healthy eating and weight loss — with the support and discipline of an organized event.
Mercer Health Benefits Special Report (pdf)
http://www.welcoa.org/freeresources/pdf/mercer_special_report.pdf
2006 - Courtesy of Mercer Health Benefits
**Benefits of a Workplace Wellness Program
For well over a decade, research has been showing the effectiveness of Employee Wellness Programs. For every dollar spent on a Corporate Wellness Program, the returns have been cost savings of between $2.30 and $10.10 in the areas of decreased absenteeism, fewer sick days, reduced WSIB claims, lowered health and insurance costs, and improvements to employee performance and productivity.
http://naturalhealthcare.ca/benefits_of_a_wellness_program.phtml - from National Healthcare Canada
**Fortune 500 Mutual of Omaha Has Found That Onsite Fitness Facilities Are Good For Business. A WELCOA Case Study with Mutual of Omaha
Whether you are hiking up a mountain or having an intense day at work—your body, mind and soul need a healthy lifestyle to keep you at the peak of your performance. So how do the benefits of a healthy lifestyle relate to your job? Read this Case Study from Fortune 500 Mutual of Omaha to find out more.
http://www.welcoa.org/freeresources/pdf/get_yourself_centered.pdf (pdf)
-Courtesy of WELCOA, 2003
**Dollars and Sense – The Bottomline Benefits of Worksite Wellness
Why Should Employers get involved in wellness issues? Isn't this something that should be handled on a personal or family level? Put aside for a moment the time when organizations and employers encouraged a culture of "one big happy family." Instead, look at the bottom line. ... The good news is, worksite wellness programs have been shown to reduce health care-related costs and worker absenteeism, plus improve productivity. This mounting evidence indicates that worksite wellness should be part of every strategic plan.
http://www.co.tompkins.ny.us/wellness/worksite/livehealthy/bottomline.html
**Hewitt Study Shows Companies Plan to Invest More in the Health of Their Employees
Employers to Move Beyond Cost Shifting, Focus on Improving Employee Health. - LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill. – While escalating health care costs continue to be a concern for employers, the majority of large employers in the U.S. are looking beyond cost shifting and plan to invest more in the health and welfare of their employees, according to Hewitt Associates, a global human resources services company.
Hewitt's survey of approximately 450 major U.S. employers covering more than 8 million employees revealed that almost two-thirds (63 percent) plan to take more aggressive, multiyear steps to help employees improve their health by increasing education efforts, implementing condition management programs, and using data analysis and other cutting-edge programs to improve health and productivity while holding participants accountable for their behaviors.
http://www.hewittassociates.com/Intl/NA/en-US/AboutHewitt/Newsroom/PressReleaseDetail.aspx?cid=3995
-Courtesy of Hewitt Associates, www.Hewitt.com 4-19-2007
**Shape up your company with a wellness program
By Philipp Harper - The leaders at Highsmith, a Wisconsin-based marketer of supplies and equipment to schools and libraries, encountered the worst kind of sticker shock: a 53% rise in the company's health-insurance premiums. Though the spike in 1990 was caused by some unusual claims by just a handful of employees, management saw it as a harbinger of future problems unless steps were taken to keep a lid on costs and claims. "We decided we would manage health care and not let it manage us," says Bill Herman, Highsmith's vice president for human resources.
So what did Herman and his colleagues do? They launched a workplace wellness program that eventually would address the physical and emotional health of about 200 employees and have a dramatic impact on the company's productivity and bottom line.
Wellness on the bottom line - Any business big or small that wants to supercharge its workplace would be well-advised to pay attention to the Highsmith experience. This is true even for small businesses where health insurance isn't an issue — because none is offered — but where absenteeism and productivity are.
Philipp Harper is a veteran freelance writer who writes about small-business management and finance issues.
http://www.bcentral.com/articles/harper/154.asp
-Courtesy of Microsoft Small Business Center
Refined Corporate Presentations by Life Journeys Coach, Laurie Bagley
 
Life Journeys' Corporate and Small Businesses presentations are designed to help executives create a shift in thinking, and address how risk and fear affect their work. Laurie can also focus on goal setting and the deeper motivation behind personal dreams and goals.
Chasing Mountains ~ moving towards your biggest goal. Great for non-profits and businesses of all sizes. Laurie explores the seven principals of moving towards a big dream deliberately, as it will not be achieved by accident.
Embracing Adversity ~ using and viewing adversity in ways that move you towards your highest potential. Designed with corporations in mind, this presentation explores the six principals related to working with adversity as opposed to resisting it and using adversity to your advantage in any life situation.
Presentation Options
Realizing Your Dreams ~ the process of turning a dream into reality. This presentation is designed to teach middle and high school students the process of setting goals to realize a big dream.
Among many achievements, Laurie's most recent life journeys include:
Co-guide on Mt. McKinley (Denali), Alaska 2007
Co-guided a team to the summit of 22,841-foot Mount Aconcagua in Argentina, the highest point in the southern hemisphere, in January 2007
Inducted into the California Outdoors Hall of Fame, January 2007
Named Shasta High School Distinguished Alumni in 2006
Became the 26th woman to summit Mt. Everest (all routes), 6th woman to summit from the Tibet Side (North Col Route) in May 2006
Summited Alaska’s Mt. McKinley in July 2005
Laurie Bagley is currently working as an international mountain guide for Adventures International.
For a Speaker Kit, Contact Laurie Bagley.
"A dream is just a dream until you set it in motion - it can take many steps to reach your goal, and if you are patient and don't leave any steps out - your dream becomes reality." Laurie Bagley
More Questions?
Call for more information: toll-free (888) 229-2743, or (530) 889-2920 or, Email us.
General Manager of Bay Bridge Fitness:
Please review information on our Background-BIO page.
Health-Wellness Website Development:
Contact Bay Bridge for help or questions about designing a Health & Wellness website. Read more at our Website Development page.
Corporate Wellness Division:
Information about the Bay Bridge Fitness Corporate Wellness Division.
Healthy Meal Plans:
Diverse Meal Plans created by Certified Dietitian/Nutritionists and Registered Dietetic Counselors with the American Dietetic Association
Additional Health-Fitness Resources:
Health Links & Resources page.
General health and fitness news:
Health News Today page.
Health, Nutrition, Beauty, Skincare Articles:
Health Articles page.
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