What if your benefit plan helped employees be …
HEALTHIER?
Cutting Edge Health Technology
A game-changing artificial intelligence tool to fundamentally improve vitality and quality of life, decrease or reverse disease burden, improve productivity, and decrease healthcare costs.
Uses health research gathered from 40,000+ scientific journals, several hundred drug categories, current genomics research, and blood biomarkers to provide personalized recommendations to improve health outcomes and lower risks of chronic disease. Recommendations are developed and prioritized in conjunction with the philosophy of naturopathic medicine and its therapeutic order approach to optimizing wellness.
Naturopathic Medicine
Naturopathic medicine is a distinct system of medicine that skillfully combines natural therapeutic traditions with modern science to restore and optimize health.
The ultimate goal of naturopathic care is to support the body’s innate capacity to heal by treating the whole person with an individualized plan and teaching the patient how to prevent further illness.
Naturopathic Medicine and Primary Care
Licensed NDs (Naturopathic doctors) are trained to provide primary care and to diagnose and treat patients of all ages, genders and conditions. Therapeutic interventions may include clinical nutrition, botanical medicine, homeopathic medicine, physical medicine, behavioral medicine, prescribed medications, and lifestyle recommendations.
How Our Approach Lowers Healthcare Costs
▻ Addresses the root cause of illness
▻ Offers less expensive diagnosis and treatment
▻ Addresses “Whole Person Health,” focused on physical, emotional, social, mental, and spiritual aspects of health
▻ Reduces the need for expensive surgical procedures, when appropriate
▻ Decreases healthcare costs
▻ Lower malpractice rates, resulting in reduced patient costs
▻ Prevents disease
Employee Wellness Programs
The most competitive and socially responsible companies vigilantly safeguard employee welfare by maintaining high well-being standards for their employees.
Making employees feel part of a team, cared for, and connected is critical.
Offering company wellness programs within a vibrant culture of well-being can greatly enhance that connection.
Leaders in a healthy company culture understand and support the individual’s need for work-life balance and overall wellness.
Healthy Employees for a Healthy Business
Employees who believe their employer cares about their health — offering comprehensive wellness programs — feel more engaged and invested in their company.
In turn, healthier employees produce more for their companies.
It’s a win-win.
What do healthy employees add to a company’s bottom line?
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Healthier employees are more focused and aware. Being engaged and present in mind and body greatly reduces the risk of injury due to inattentiveness (1).
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Better health decreases stress levels, increases strength, and boosts immunity in most employees, lessening the chances of communicable illnesses at the workplace. This can save companies money lost to sick pay and reduced productivity (2-4).
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Because they get sick less often, healthy employees often qualify for lower health insurance rates, leading to substantial annual savings for employees and companies alike (3).
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Healthier employees get sick less often. Absenteeism is reduced by 27% for those exercising and eating healthy regularly (5).
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Happy, healthy employees stay longer at their job and are less likely to seek other employment, reducing recruitment costs and productivity losses in re-training (3,6).
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Healthy lifestyles include more awareness of and need for work-life balance, mental health breaks, and healthy fueling for energy, all leading to lowered stress levels (7).
How do healthy employees improve company culture?
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Good health improves employees’ energy, attitude, focus, presentism, engagement, and productivity (3).
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Job performance improves by 25% if employees eat healthily and by 15% if they exercise at least 30 minutes 3 times a week (5).
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Personal wellness leads to improved self-confidence. Confident employees are more willing to take on leadership roles (8).
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Employees who participate in wellness activities at work and in the community have more fun and boost morale (3).
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Investing in the health of employees means investing in their families and the greater community in which they live (9).
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Employees who are happy and healthy spread enthusiasm into the community and promote a positive company image of caring and social responsibility (9,10).
Overall, healthy employees contribute to the health of a company’s bottom line - productivity, culture, and savings (lowered healthcare costs, absenteeism, and turnover costs) — and to the larger society.
The benefits of healthy employees are immeasurable.
Interested in a healthier, happier employee base at a lower cost?
Reach out to see how Paradigm Health’s Whole Health Network can benefit your company.
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