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Healthiest Maryland


Healthiest Maryland is a statewide initiative to create a culture of wellness. Its goal is to create an environment that makes the healthy choice the easy choice. In this way, Healthiest Maryland seeks to maximize wellness in the state's population.

Healthiest Maryland will use a peer-to-peer campaign where government and business leaders promote ways to improve the health of all Marylanders by encouraging businesses, schools and communities to engage in wellness initiatives that make healthy choices expedient, accessible, and easy.

 
The campaign recruits leaders from the three key areas of business, schools and communities and asks them to assess their organization's health promoting policies, educates the leaders about resources available to help them adopt and implement wellness programs, and recognizes them for making the commitment to a healthier state.


Healthiest Maryland Business Brochure











  

Take Assessment Here

Sign a letter of commitment stating you believe a healthy, productive workforce is a core part of your business strategy. Signing this letter means you are joining CEOs from across the state who are leading by example in making health promotion and disease prevention an integral part of their business strategy.  Fill out and return the form to the address located at the bottom of form. 

Presentations About Healthiest Maryland

Paula Pouliot
Hospital Employee Health Coordinator, Chester River Health System
PowerPoint Presentation

Maria Prince, MD, MPH
Staff, Wellness and Prevention Workgroup, Maryland Health Quality and Cost Council
Medical Director, Office of Chronic Disease Prevention, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
PowerPoint Presentation

Patty Brown
Diabetes in the Workplace: Wellness Programs Making a Difference
PowerPoint Presentation

Workforce Wellness News and Ideas
Bosses to Employees: Shape Up or Pay Up - August 15, 2011
Mediation rooms, gyms, health incentives among wellness programs at Maryland firms - August 17, 2011

Resources
American Diabetes Association
Interactive Risk Assessment Tool
Winning at Work Program

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield
Wellness Webinars

Partnership for Prevention
Leading by Example : The Value of Worksite Health Promotion to Small and Medium Sized Employers
Leading by Example : Creating Health Communities Through Corporate Engagement

Getting Started

  • The Partnership for Prevention and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's "Healthy Workforce 2010 and Beyond" is an essential health promotion sourcebook for both large and small employers. This comprehensive guide and its recommended resources are useful to help plan, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive health promotion program.
  • Accredited comprehensive wellness and health promotion providers are vendors or health plans that have been assessed using a standardized set of requirements to distinguish quality performance. The National Committee for Quality Assurance and the URAC are two organizations that evaluate vendor or health plan performance in comprehensive wellness.
  • Your organization's health insurance provider is also an important resource for creating and implementing a workplace wellness plan. They can provide you with data to tailor your program to your employee population. They are also likely able to provide resources like Health Risk Assessments.


General Resources


Healthy Eating
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services: "Your worksite wellness committee can take steps to enhance the health of employees at your worksite by helping them eat smart."

Physical Activity
American Heart Association: "The concept is simple. Companies set up "Start! Walking" routes in the workplace, encourage employees to use them, and celebrate and reward those employees who go from a sedentary lifestyle to a more active one."

Tobacco
Maryland Quit Line: Tobacco quit coaching over the phone with follow up. Free and confidential, with follow up.

Healthy Monday: "Research shows that people view Monday as a day for a fresh start. On Monday people set health intentions for the week and are more likely to start or restart healthy behaviors, including quitting smoking."

National Business Coalition on Health: "Health plan tobacco cessation performance" -- "Employers have a critical role in promoting tobacco cessation. Subsequently, employers should offer and plans should administer benefits that are most likely to achieve smoking cessation results. The following report describes purchaser expectations for health plan performance with respect to tobacco cessation and key results from eValue8, the nation's leading RFI tool assessing health plan performance on behalf of employers."

North Dakota Department of Health: Employer's toolkit. "Practical tool for developing tobacco-free policies and programs in your workplace. This kit is intended to help make the process straightforward and successful."


Companies Participating in Healthiest Maryland
(* = GBC member companies)

 

 

 

 

 



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