Corporate Fitness and Wellness
Controlling escalating health care costs, increasing employee productivity, two of corporate America’s primary challenges in the coming decade. The cost of insuring a family of four has risen as much as 400% in just the last eight years. Those families are part of your corporation and you know who continues to foot the bill.
The more fit you are, the better you feel, the harder you work. That’s true for the individual and it’s true for companies, as the physical fitness of every employee affects the fiscal fitness of every corporation.
Corporate Discounts & Programs
Participating companies may choose to subsidize all or part of the membership cost of the program, or simply pass along our Corporate Discount as a free benefit to employees. The following list will show you the basic membership programs and discount levels available. Regardless of the program level you choose, each of our corporate plans offers you and your employees substantial discounts off our regular membership enrollment rates.
Program
Company Purchase (Comprehensive)
Company Purchase
(5 or More)
Open Enrollment
(5 or more)
Description
Provides a membership for all your employees at a fraction of the cost. Minimum of 30 employees to qualify.
Paid for by company check
(payroll deductions are optional)
Our highest-level discount. Memberships are purchased and paid for by company check (payroll deductions are optional)
Provides a discounted membership for all your employees. Simply communicate the clubs information and corporate discount rate to all the employees and pass on the savings without the company having to be involved financially.
Corporate Discount
MEMBERSHIPS ARE PURCHASED BY THE COMPANY for 12 MONTHS INVEST FOR
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30% OF EMPLOYEES
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100% RECEIVE MEMBERSHIPS
5 OR MORE MEMBERSHIPS-PREPAY 12 MONTHS, RECEIVE NO ENROLLMENT FEE AND 6 ADDITIONAL MONTHS FREE
Average dues as low as $16 per month
MEMBERSHIPS ARE PURCHASED BY THE INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYEE NO ENROLLMENT FEE AND $25 PER MONTH or PREPAY 12 MONTHS, RECEIVE 3 ADDITIONAL MONTHS FREE
Family members can add-on for no enrollment and $19 per month. No matter which membership you choose, you’ll receive high quality promotional posters and payroll stuffers to announce the program to your employees. Please contact us today to establish these significant savings to your employees.
Positive Return on Investment
No decision-maker would deny that “one has to spend money
to make money,” as the familiar saying goes. Once the initial investment is made, a fitness or wellness program will immediately start paying for itself – provided that it’s properly promoted and maintained – and, eventually, realize concrete savings for the company.
General Mills instituted a lifestyle modification program to reduce absenteeism that required participants to complete one of three optional lifestyle activities every three months. An evaluation of the program found that in the second year of the program General Mills had saved $226.32 per employee in absentee related costs with an ROI of 3.1 to 1. The third year of the program saw an even higher ROI at 3.9 to 1.
Goetzel RZ, Juday TR, Ozminkowski RJ. What’s the ROI? A systematic re- view of return-on-investment studies of corporate health and productivity man- agement initiatives. AWHP’s Worksite Health.
Pacific Bell began promoting its FitWorks pro- gram designed to appraise and modify risk, provide disease screening and information, and provide gyms for its employees. After four years, Pacific Bell had realized a $144 per-enrollee, per-year savings and a 1.38 to 1 return on investment.
Goetzel RZ, Juday TR, Ozminkowski RJ. What’s the ROI? A systematic re- view of return-on-investment studies of corporate health and productivity man- agement initiatives. AWHP’s Worksite Health.
At Pfizer’s New York location 41% of employees participate in an onsite fitness center where there is a 250-person waiting list. In 1998 the ROI for all of Pfizer’s onsite fitness centers was 4.29 to 1.
US Department of Health and Human Services. Prevention Makes Common Cents.
Motorola invests $6 million annually into its Wellness Initiatives program, which promotes the long-term health of its employees, family members, and retirees. For every $1 that Motorola has invested in the program, $3.93 has been saved.
US Department of Health and Human Services. Prevention Makes Common Cents.
Reduce Costs and Medical Claims
The most obvious benefit of a corporate fitness program is that it allows companies to reduce their overall health care costs, in part by reducing the total number of medical claims that they have to field each year. The U.S. Surgeon General reports that 75% of all illnesses can be attributed to lifestyle-related causes, and that 53% of America’s population is “inactive.” The more a business can help employees avoid illness and disease and manage their own health, the more it can manage its own healthcare costs each year.
In a research study, 5,689 adults were monitored over an 18-month time span to determine if a relationship exists between modifiable risk factors, such as exercise, and healthcare charges. Researchers found that the participants who never smoked, had a BMI of 25, and exercised three days a week had mean annual healthcare charges that were 49% lower than physically inactive smokers with a BMI above 27.5.
Pronk NP, Goodman MJ, O’Connor PJ, Martinson BC. Relationship between modifiable health risks and short-term health care charges.
Researchers at Brigham Young University studying employee health promotion programs have found that fit- ness programs are associated with reduced healthcare costs.
Aldana SG. Financial impact of health promotion programs: a comprehensive review of the literature. American Journal of Health Promotion
Findings from a study of healthcare costs in diabetics indicate that exercise in combination with diet can successfully lower their healthcare costs.
Guo JJ, Gibson JT, Gropper DM, Oswald SL, Barker KN. Empiric investigation on direct costs of illness and health care utilization of Medicaid patients with diabetes mellitus. Ameri- can Journal of Managing Care Pronk NP, Goodman MJ, O’Connor PJ, Martinson BC. Relationship between modifiable health risks and short-term health care charges.
A four-year impact study of the Johnson & Johnson Health & Wellness Program, which integrates employee health, wellness, disability management, employee assistance and occupational programs, and places con- siderable emphasis on health promotion and disease pre- vention, found that there was a reduction in medical care expenditures of approximately $225 per employee per year. The study also found that the most substantial cost savings was seen in years three and four after implementation.
Goetzel RZ, Ozminkowski RJ, Bruno JA, Rutter KR, Isaac F, Wang S. The long-term impact of Johnson & Johnson’s Health & Wellness Program on employee health risks. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Wellness Solutions
Corporate Fitness and Wellness Solutions
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Wellness Technology Corporate Programming
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Health Risk appraisals, Life-style assessment surveys,
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Fitness assessments, flexibility, strength
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Biometric assessments -Blood Chemistry, Cardiovascular assessments, Body composition
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Exercise program design
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Individual and group tracking reports
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Fitness and wellness library
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Nutritional meal planning
Seminars
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Fitness and nutritional education
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Workplace ergonomics
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Stress management and relaxation
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Back and neck care
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Office yoga
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Weight Management
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Employee Fitness Incentives
Company Events
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CPR and First Aid Certifications
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Wellness Committee Development
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Wellness Health Fairs
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Massage Stress Breaks
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Outdoor Activities: Hiking, Cycling and Corporate Fitness Challenges!