Wellness Programmes

Wellnomix offers ongoing wellness PROGRAMMES which can include any combination of the following programme modules or can be tailored to client specification:

Strategy development

Organisations wrestle with achieving optimum return on investment in employee wellness as a result of a number of factors. Wellnomix will remove the guess-work from new and current wellness strategies by incorporating tailored best practice wellness strategy modalities such as:

Wellness Metrics – Surveys, Biometrics, Reporting

Policy Development
Programme Implementation
Programme Management – To service the wellness ‘Triple client’
Programme Monitoring
Programme Evaluation and Corrective Action

Information Distribution

Health & Wellness Information Distribution are considered a strategy to educate and empower employees to make sounds lifestyle decisions. Importantly it is also considered a catalyst for starting behavioural change.

Distribution strategies are tailored to fit the demographics of each client and may incorporate:

Hard copy / Printed material specifically for employees who do not have internet or email connectivity. It is important that messages be literacy and language appropriate. We offer generic and tailored Leaflets, Posters and Newsletters

Electronic programme delivery for employees with access to internet and email. Wellnomix offer generic, co-branded or branded best practice electronic programmes which include:

Profile driven email communication

Web-based resource centres covering content focussing on Work, Life and Wellbeing issues and HIV & AIDS

Professional Advisory Services

Ask the Doctor

Ask the Dietician

Ask the Personal Trainer

Health, Wellness and Stress Assessments

Wellness Tracking tools

Interactive Insights

Medical Encyclopedia which offers a search engine for procedures, medicines and symptoms

Face to Face information distribution is conducted via regular:
- Wellness Workshops / Talks. Workshops are tailored to employer requirements and are usually aimed at 20 minute interactive sessions focussing on specific health or wellness risks or national health observances
- Personal Consulting – Modern day living goes hand-in-hand with an array of challenges. These challenges may severely impact the productivity of the individual. Employees are given opportunities to consult with registered Nurse-Counsellors via face-to-face personal consulting and counselling services offering support and guidance to employees or someone close to them who faces challenges such as:

Abuse

Bereavement

Finances

Health

HIV & AIDS

Lifestyle

Stress

Substance Abuse

Screening

Whilst most employees have access to health and wellness screening via their medical aids / public health clinics few employees make the time for screening to manage existing conditions such as blood pressure and diabetes. Fewer still commit to regular preventative screening. Collectively this culminates in an increased risk for uncontrolled blood pressure, blood sugar etc. and may have a direct impact on absenteeism and presenteeism. By offering opportunities for screening in the workplace employees are encouraged to make use of the facilities which directly translates to improved management of potential risk and reduced absenteeism for having the tests conducted elsewhere. Furthermore offering a bouquet of screening dilutes the stigma attached to some of the testing that may otherwise not be conducted.

Employees are given the opportunity for screening via group initiatives such as Wellness Days or Health Risk Assessments as well as during Personal Consulting sessions. The testing made available can include:

Blood Alcohol Level
Blood Pressure
Body Mass index
Body Fat %
C-Reactive Protein
Random Cholesterol & Glucose
Pregnancy
Total Blood Screening
Tuberculosis
Voluntary Counselling and Testing for HIV

Care & Support

In many cases employees living with Chronic or similar Conditions are not as productive as those that don’t. Employees are offered modulated, readiness to change focussed, tailored, face to face support programmes which last 10 minutes per module over 12 to 18 months or longer.

The programmes include modules aimed at:

Defining the condition
Understanding the risk of potential complications
The importance of medicine compliance
Lifestyle modification if required
Progress monitoring
Counselling and personal support
Disclosure support
Treatment coordination
Liaising with medical providers /medical schemes /occupation health clinic /public clinic etc.

Individuals are encouraged to enrol in programmes if they are living with any one or more of the following conditions:

Asthma
High Blood Pressure
High Cholesterol
Diabetes
Gout
HIV & AIDS
Menopause
Obesity
Tuberculosis

Sick Leave Support

Reading sick notes can be a challenge for human resource practitioners and understanding medical terms is not within the scope of individuals without medical or similar backgrounds.

Organisations are assisted on request from HR, Payroll or similar with understanding the meaning and impact of suspect motivations, providers and similar. Furthermore Wellnomix can monitor sick leave utilisation trends and report on:

Top Sick Leave users
Top users of Sick Leave Mondays & Fridays Users
Top Suspect Motivations
Top Suspect Providers

Employees are assisted in understanding sick leave notes and advised on treatment adherence and lifestyle choices which can potentially avoid repeating or minimizing the impact of certain ailments. This support is provided during Personal Consulting sessions.

Wellness Incentive Programmes

Whilst there is growing global awareness of the importance of living healthy, employees that need to make lifestyle changes are often not ready to change. Wellness Incentive Programmes can act as a catalyst to encourage employee buy-in and participation in the programme. Wellnomix can integrate a tailored wellness incentive programme which can include incentives for:

Participation in Organisation Health & Wellness Risk Assessments
Participation in Positive Health Seeking Behaviour
Smoking Cessation
Healthy Eating
Exercise participation
Stress Management Activities
Participation in Voluntary Counselling and Testing for HIV
Not needing Sick Leave
Improving Health or Maintaining a Healthy Status

Reporting

A well structured, objective and tailored reporting module is imperative for new generation wellness programmes.

Reporting modules are tailored per client but involves:

Monthly Activity Reports
Quarterly Utilisation Reports
Annual Wellness Risk Analyses for longitudinal monitoring of the effectiveness of the programme

For more information please contact us.