Healthy Worksites Wellness Consulting

Whatever your workplace wellness needs are, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota wellness consultants deliver solutions. We can be as hands-on or hands-off as you like – whatever it takes to advance your health goals.

Complimentary wellness planning meeting

Get started by contacting your Blue Cross representative to schedule a wellness planning consultation meeting, at no charge for Blue Cross clients with a 51+ contract minimum.

At this meeting, a wellness consultant from Blue Cross can:

  • Explore your organization’s experience with wellness programs such as Stop-Smoking Support, Nurse Guides, Healthy Start Prenatal Support, etc.
  • Share insights on your population’s aggregate health assessment results
  • Recommend programs and resources

Wellness consulting

You may decide you’d like more help bringing your workplace wellness commitment to life or keeping it effective.

Our wellness consultants can customize our fee-based consulting services to your budget and needs. They can help you create a plan to reach your goals, and provide advice and resources to help you implement the plan. Or, they can take on all (or part) of the job for you.

Here are just a couple of examples of how our wellness consultants can help:

Developing an effective wellness program
A Blue Cross wellness consultant can work with your organization to:

  • Assess your current wellness situation, including workplace surroundings, policies, culture of health, leading claims drivers and health risks
  • Identify wellness gaps and opportunities and recommend effective strategies
  • Work with you to set measurable goals for improving employee health
  • Create a detailed wellness plan that addresses your priorities

Healthier food choices
A Healthy Worksites registered dietician can visit your site to:

  • Asses your workplace food environment, including cafeterias, vending machines and food served at meetings
  • Facilitate a meeting of key stakeholders to develop a vision, priorities and measurable goals for healthier eating
  • Present recommendations for strategies that will be effective in reaching your goals
  • Evaluate restaurants and food shops near your workplace to determine the healthiest choices and deliver a presentation to employees on how changes in the eating environment influence what and how much we eat -- including handouts with tips for selecting healthy foods

Why invest in a healthier workplace?

From the foods offered at company meetings to workday activity options, the workplace exerts a silent but powerful influence on the health-related choices employees make every day.

A healthy worksite will support individuals who are trying to make healthy choices. In fact, research shows that employers who combine one-on-one health improvement support with healthy workplace surroundings see greater improvements in employee health than when they use one-on-one support alone.1

Even better, a healthy worksite can affect the choices of those who don’t participate in formal health improvement programs.

Contact your Blue Cross representative

For more on how Healthy Worksites consultants can help your organization, or to schedule a wellness planning meeting, contact your Blue Cross representative.

1Internal study results reported by Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, 2009