A program designed to empower individuals and families by creating and providing programs that are designed to:

• provide assistance to gain knowledge and skills to improve and maintain health
• provide guidance and motivation to choose healthier behaviors and alter lifestyles
• provide instruction and opportunities to learn how to make healthy decisions

Overall goal of the program is to:

• enhance quality of life for each employee
• create a culture and environment that supports healthy lifestyles

In order for this type of program to be successful, the campus as a whole must realize that no one owns a wellness program. Every person at the College owns a piece of the program and plays an integral part in the role of overall health and wellness.

Health Promotion and Wellness includes:

• Environmental - community responsibility
• Physical - healthy body; fitness; nutrition
• Intellectual - understanding/reasoning on individuals' part
• Life planning - lifestyles; being change minded
• Occupational - type of work/effect on body
• Spiritual - ethics; morals; values; religion
• Financial - resources/planning; money management
• Emotional - thoughts; feelings; moods
• Cultural - heritage; customs/tradition; politics
• Social - family/friends; partner

A program may consist of:

• Disease management
• Weight management
• Encourage exercise
• Smoking cessation
• Walking program (digi-walker)
• Nutrition counseling
• Stress reduction programs
• Employee Assistance Program
• Health screenings
• Behavior modification programs
• Educational/Motivational programs
• Lifestyle awareness activities
• Specific programs geared at high-population/high-cost diseases such as diabetes; asthma; congestive heart failure; other cardiac diseases

What Colorado College currently offers:

• Bi-annual blood screening and health fair (for employees and dependents)
• Better Letter newsletter
• Ergonomics team
• Weight Watchers programs (so far CC has lost over 2000 lbs)
• EAP - free counseling to all employees and dependents; 4 annual workshops
• TIAA-CREF - retirement planning sessions/seminars
• Athletics department - offers classes such as yoga, aerobics, swimming, etc.
• Mammograms - annual screening
• Blood drives
• Massage therapy
• Flu shots
• Nutrition counseling

Another aspect of health promotion and wellness is disease management. We have met with both Memorial Hospital and Penrose/St. Francis to begin to partner with our community providers. Disease management will consist of three primary areas - Inpatient Care, Outpatient Follow-up and Patient Wellness.

Inpatient care will provide the employee with a patient advocate to enhance the hospital/physician relationship in order to arrive at the best health recovery plan for the patient.

Outpatient follow-up will focus on the future by assisting employees on life style planning and recovery efforts. The patient advocacy will continue the relationship with the hospital/physician always seeking out the best avenue of care.

Patient wellness is the hopeful ultimate result. By empowering the employee with necessary disease management skills their personal drive will be to live life to the healthiest and fullest within the confines of the illness.

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