ASHHRA Health and Wellness Pulse
FROM ASHHRA
The Call for Proposals for the ASHHRA 51st Annual Conference & Exposition is now open. Join ASHHRA for the premier educational event and networking experience for the health care human resources (HR) profession! Consider becoming ASHHRA faculty to share your best practices, innovative solutions and expertise with health care HR professionals and enable them to lead the way to achieve excellence in their organizations.
BENEFITS
By Marlene Y. Satter, BenefitsPro As plan sponsors increasingly incorporate features to coax them in, millennials – who have indicated in numerous surveys that they don’t see much point in saving for retirement and are too raddled with student loan debt to contribute much – are apparently beginning to change their tune.
Visit http://www.benefitspro.com/2014/11/17/millennials-waking-up-to-401k-possibilities to view the full article online.
By Tom Murphy, Times Record News
Many workers will soon find that their health insurance costs more and covers less next year and that employers have taken a sharper interest in their well-being. Experts say the effect of a health care overhaul tax that doesn’t start until 2018 is already being felt.
Visit http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/onthemoneyemployee-health-benefits_54624656 to view the full article online.
WELLNESS
WorldAtWork While the unemployment rate may have dropped in the past year, that doesn't mean the workloads of those already employed are easing up. Sixty-eight percent of U.S. full-time employees are suffering from work overload, a 14 percent increase from 2013.
Visit http://www.worldatwork.org/adimComment?id=76176&from=Work-Life%20News to view the full article online.
By Dina Overland, FierceHealthPayer
I did a lot of shaking my head as I wrote about Honeywell's wellness program last week. The New Jersey-based company is planning on penalizing employees who don't participate in health screenings; and a federal judge just sanctioned those penalties, which include fining employees $500 for not undergoing biometric screenings and withholding $1,500 annually in company contributions to employees' health savings accounts for not undergoing wellness screenings like blood pressure, glucose and cholesterol tests.
Visit http://www.fiercehealthpayer.com/story/why-wellness-programs-should-use-positive-incentives-instead-negative-conse/2014-11-10 to view the full article online.
By Sarah McColl, TakePart Food-service managers and chefs from seven medical facilities along the 11-mile stretch between the downtown areas of Minneapolis and St. Paul, called the Central Corridor, met recently to eat community garden carrots and local handmade tamales. They gathered, along with nine area colleges, not just to nosh, but to figure out how to keep more of what is collectively a $25 million annual food budget within the Twin Cities. Not only are handmade tortillas, crisp watercress and chocolate sorbet infinitely more appealing than jiggly cubes of green Jell-O, buying local products is a boon to the communities these hospitals and clinics serve.
Visit http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/10/28/hospitals-local-food to view the full article online.
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