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Pinnacle West provides a variety of programs that encourage healthy lifestyles and informed decision making to better manage health costs and positively impact individual health and productivity.
We view health management as a corporate business strategy that focuses upon prevention and health promotion to control escalating health benefit costs while improving the success and health of our employees and the company as a whole. We know that disability costs and the effects of an aging workforce can be minimized through effective implementation of processes and programs designed to promote healthy behaviors and lifestyle practices.
We continue to invest in comprehensive programs that improve the health, productivity and well being of our employees by promoting healthy behaviors, disease management and healthy lifestyles. Through these efforts we have been able to control escalating health-benefit costs while improving the success of our employees and our company and will continue our medical strategy focus to:
- Reduce health risks and improve long term health status
- Reduce medical claims costs
- Motivate positive change in modifiable health risk behaviors
- Integrate health promotion, preventive services and care management for employees along the health care continuum
Some of our employee health initiatives include:
Healthquest
Healthquest is a voluntary, company-paid health screening conducted by an outside worksite wellness vendor at more than 28 site locations throughout the company.
Healthquest offers a convenient way for employees to help identify and support healthy lifestyle behaviors. All participants receive a health evaluation which offers a health risk assessment survey, blood pressure check, body weight, step test to determine heart rate fitness and a take-home colorectal screening kit. The comprehensive lab screen includes tests for cholesterol, glucose, kidney and liver function, anemia, electrolytes and complete blood count. For men, a prostate (PSA) screen is offered and for women, an osteoporosis-bone density screen.
After the screening, a confidential report is sent to the participant’s home, along with lifestyle change tools and healthy Web site information to help interpret results and take action.
Health and Productivity
The company offers a variety of programs to employees to assist in improving employee health and well being, including:
- Employee Assistance Program, which provides no-cost, employee-assistance counseling and referral services to all employees and their family members seeking solutions to personal difficulties such as (but not limited to): emotional stress, marital and family discord, drug or alcohol abuse, financial or legal burden, death of a loved one, grief, anxiety, depression or other personal problems which may occur.
- Onsite Weight Watchers
- Free flu shots for employees
- Mobile Onsite Mammogram (MOM) service at company facilities
- Healthy Lifestyle loans, which are interest-free loan up to $1,500 toward healthy lifestyle programs and services. These include annual fitness center membership, home use fitness equipment, personal training, nutritional counseling/weight management and programs to help employees quit smoking.
- Ergonomics Program, which was created to minimize the potential health impacts to employees from ergonomic stress related injuries and illnesses
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