Services - Employers

How can patient mentoring be utilized to meet your objectives?

Two of the main concerns for employers today are employee productivity and rising health care costs.  Your employees are your most important asset and you need them to be at work performing at high levels.  We can provide you with a unique way to positively impact the health of your employees, which will raise productivity and lower absence and lost work day rates as well as your costs for health benefits.

Benefits

Chronic diseases—such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes—are the leading causes of death and disability in the United States.  These diseases account for 7 of every 10 deaths and affect the quality of life of 90 million Americans.¹  Whether you are aware or not, you have employees with chronic diseases and the health decisions they make impact their performance at work and your health benefits costs.  A patient mentoring disease management program is the most effective way you can help employees who have chronic conditions. 

 Offering a patient-to-patient program provides disease-state education that your employees may not receive anywhere else.  Sharing health information will raise awareness, change behaviors, encourage better health decisions and show that you care for your employees.  A person who manages his or her disease is less likely to need frequent medical care, less likely to have associated complications or problems and therefore, more likely to have high attendance and productivity.

Your patient mentoring disease management program will help improve the health of your employees and in turn, increase the quantity and quality of their work and lower your associated health benefits costs.  Your company wins and your employees win!

Implementation

We will work with you to develop a patient mentoring program that meets your objectives.  It can be implemented in a variety of ways, providing education to individuals with a chronic disease or sharing prevention information with those who are healthy.  Your patient mentoring program will meet your objectives, increasing attendance and productivity and decreasing the cost of health benefits.

¹Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/