About Healthyroads
Health Promotion
To promote member engagement and utilization, Healthyroads offers a proprietary health promotions guidebook, How to Build a Fit Company™. This unique tool gives organizations a turn-key package of motivational communications materials you can use year-round to promote a culture of health at the workplace. Featuring more than 400 posters, fliers, tent cards, payroll stuffers, articles, and letters, these inspirational and humorous pieces can be co-branded and ordered through Healthyroads’ certified wellness consultants.
Wellness Consulting
Our certified wellness consultants serve as a single point of contact at Healthyroads, providing telephone-based and worksite support to help clients:
- Assess their organization and develop a strategy to promote a “culture of health” at the workplace
- Organize and execute broad-based health promotion campaigns
- Provide guidance in structuring incentive programs and wellness activities to optimize employee engagement
Other support services include Webinars, utilization report review, and participation on wellness committees.
Accreditation
Healthyroads was one of the first five companies nationally to receive Comprehensive Wellness Program accreditation from URAC. Healthyroads also continues to maintain URAC accreditation for Health Website and HIPAA Privacy and Security. These accreditations demonstrate Healthyroads’ commitment to meeting high standards and being accountable to an external accreditation process.
Clinical Outcomes
Healthyroads Coaching® has achieved significant clinical outcomes as follows:
- Of those who lost weight in the weight management program, the average weight loss per member was 16 pounds.
- Approximately 92 percent of all Healthyroads Coaching participants reduced their health risk through improvement in their eating habits, activity levels, and/or stress management.
- The six-month abstinence rate of members engaged in the Healthyroads Tobacco Cessation program is 38 percent.
- Members who quit tobacco gained less than 1 pound in the year following their quit date.
Member Satisfaction
Participant satisfaction in the Healthyroads Coaching program indicates that:
- 92 percent were satisfied with program services
- 95 percent were satisfied with the quality of the coaching experience
- 90 percent indicated the program helped them meet health improvement goals
- 91 percent would recommend the program to family or friends
Published Study
In September 2008, the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine published "Using an ROI Estimation Model to Evaluate Outcomes from an Obesity Management Worksite Health Promotion Program" which demonstrated a credible and practical measurement method and a positive return-on-investment on the fees paid by payors for the Healthyroads Coaching program. This study was co-authored by representatives from Thomson Reuters and Healthyroads.
Awards
Over the years, Healthyroads has earned over 100 awards for excellence in member communication, including a Platinum award for Healthyroads.com from the eHealthcare Leadership Awards. Other awards include the Health Care Communicators of San Diego’s Best in Show award for the Healthyroads eXtremeQUIT® teen tobacco cessation materials, as well as various Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards for its brochures and promotional materials.
Additionally, Healthyroads’ parent company American Specialty Health (ASH) earned a Gold "Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles" award from the National Business Group on Health, two consecutive Silver California Fit Business awards, and was named one of American's 15 Fittest Companies by Men's Fitness magazine and one of the "100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare" by Modern Healthcare.
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