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Reduce Health Care Costs 2016 - Proven Programs to Help Reduce Health Care Costs Related to: Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, and Heart Disease - By Compliance Global Inc

Date2016-06-28

Deadline2016-06-28

VenueOnline Webinar, USA - United States USA - United States

KeywordsCost analysis in healthcare; Corporate wellness programs; Work related injuries

Websitehttps://complianceglobal.us/product/7004...

Topics/Call fo Papers

Overview:
In the United States alone there are over 86 million people who suffer with pre-diabetes and over 29 million who are diagnosed with diabetes. The cost analysis in healthcare is estimated at over 245 billion dollars, 69 billion of that is related to productivity. Not to mention work related issues which result from; low blood sugar, high blood sugar, inappropriate timing of medications and meals that can lead to injuries at work and the risk of secondary complications.
In addition, High Blood Pressure and Heart Disease also present with significant issues in the workplace wellness programs. Couple these issues with the healthcare costs which skyrocket when these issues are not managed properly can have a major impact on your organization and its employee wellness programs.
Marlisa Brown has over 20 years’ experience working on solutions to all these disorders where she treated over 15,000 patients and worked with hundreds of corporations. Marlisa will help you to identify ways to implement wellness programs that will give results. Her tried and true programs will give you what you need to start immediately giving you measurable results within as little as a 3-4 month period.
Also, she will provide you with tools to use in emergency situations if these disorders lead to an incident at the workplace.
Why Should You Attend:
Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, and Heart Related Illnesses lead to some of the most incidents of long term absenteeism in the work place. In addition, poor management of these disorders can lead to a higher incidence of work related injuries. Employees that are struggling with these disorders can often have episodes at work that can lead to emergency runs to the hospital. Not to mention the increases in health insurance premiums.
All this is preventable, and simple targeted wellness programs in the workplace with support and rewards can lead to significant improvements. In this webinar Marlisa will provide you with the tools to implement programs immediately small and large scale as needed. She will provide you with assessment check lists and simple ways to reduce work related injuries.
In addition, she will supply long term strategies that will help you support employees to reduce the likelihood of long term complications. This will lead to less missed work, and on the job incidences, lower health costs, and a more productive, happier workforce. The key is knowing the biggest risk factors in your organization and how to target your programs to these needs.
Areas Covered in this Webinar:
Programs presented will be easy to utilize in a safe appropriate manner. Also some of the programs can be started almost immediately and will provide simple evaluation tools that will indicate the success of each intervention.
Education of the risk factors associated with diabetes, hypertension and cardiac disorders will be covered as well identification of why they contribute to work related issues. In addition, simple solutions and strategies will be presented to help better prepare and protect against future incidents.
Learning Objectives:
Attendees will be able to site the impact of health care costs due to employees with poorly controlled diabetes, hypertension and heart disease
Attendees will be able to implement an easy to follow program to help reduce the long term issues related to these disorders
Employers will gain better understanding of the issues facing those suffering with these disorders so they can make changes to accommodate these employee needs
Who Will Benefit:
Corporate Officers
Managers
Benefits Managers
Compensation Specialists
The Human Resources Department
Employees
For more information, please visit : https://complianceglobal.us/product/700400/Marlisa...
Email: support-AT-complianceglobal.us
Toll Free: +1-844-746-4244
Tel: +1-516-900-5515
Level:
Beginner
Speaker Profile:
Marlisa Brown MS, RD, CDE, CDN is president of Total Wellness Inc., for more than 20 years working with more than 15,000 clients specializing in diabetes, cardiovascular disease, weight loss, gastrointestinal disorders, food allergies, celiac disease, medical nutrition therapies personal development, nutrition/culinary programs, corporate wellness and more.
Some of her clients have included; the NY Jets, The Toronto Blue Jays, The Kennedy Space Center, Pratt and Whitney, Lilco, Astoria Federal, Guardian Life, Brookhaven National Labs, Goldman Sachs, Tiffany, Dean Witter Reynolds, Pall Corp, Prudential Securities, The New York Stock Exchange, ING Barring, Bankers Trust, Sony, Liz Claiborne, Ethicon, Honeywell, Hofstra, CW Post, Queens, Stoney Brook & Adelphi Universities and more. In addition Marlisa worked with Lackmann Culinary Services as their Wellness Coordinator for over a ten year period.
Marlisa has made numerous television appearances including 5 years on “International Healthy Cooking” for The American Heart Association where Marlisa wrote and appeared on every show and she has recently launched a diabetes cooking show on foodytv “Defeating Diabetes in Your Kitchen”, in addition she has been a member of the dLife TV Professional Council.
Marlisa has a bachelor’s degree in marketing a graduate degree in nutrition from C.W. Post/Long Island University, and she has also studied at the Culinary Institute of America.
Marlisa is author of “Gluten-Free Hassle Free”, “The Gluten-Free Hassle-Free Cookbook” and “Easy, Gluten-Free”. In addition she has contributed to many publications including, Salute, Scholastic, Shape, Food Service Management, Newsday, Parenting Magazine, Weight Training for Dummies, and Sports Nutrition Medicine and Rehabilitation. She has also written and contributed to many marketing and infomercial programs including, Richard Simmons’ Food Mover Program, cookbooks, recipe cards and web site, Kathy Smiths’ Project You II for Diabetes, Jorge Cruises’ The 3-Hour Diet Cookbook, and Leslie Sansones ’Walk Away the Pounds, (green, yellow, and red meal plan).

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