Health Advantage Program

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Corporate Testimonials

Pikeville Medical Center's Health Advantage Program is a wellness program that allows employers to improve their workforce's health while reducing sick-time, injuries and deaths that result from preventable factors. Our professional staff will work with your company to design a program that benefits your employees, and could help reduce health-care costs at the same time. Improving your organization's general wellness is a winning proposition for everyone.

Available Services

Heart Risk Appraisal

• Heart Rate
• Waist Measurement
• Blood Pressure
• Height / Weight
• Lipid Profile, HDL, cholesterol, triglyceride
• Liver function test
• Glucose / Diabetic Screen
• Risk factor questionnaire

All results are completely confidential. Each employee will receive a complete written evaluation of his/her health status.

Our professional staff will provide assistance in data collection and data arrangement. We can also assist with the design of your wellness program's operation plan.

• Industrial Drug Screen
• Breath Alcohol
• Back Care Education
• Ergonomic analysis
• Carpal tunnel prevention
• Functional Capacity Evaluation
• Physical Assessment for Job Placement
• Pre-employment Physicals
• Flu Vaccinations (when available)

Five reasons for Work Site Wellness

Reason #1 : Health Care Costs
We spend over $1 trillion dollars in this country alone on health care - far more than any other nation in the world. The average annual health care cost per person in the United states far exceeds $3000 - lifetime costs are somewhere in the neighborhood of $225,000.

Reason #2 : Most Illness Can Be Avoided
Experts suggest preventable illnesses make up 70% of the entire burden of illness and associated costs in the U.S. Behind those illnesses are a host of preventable factors including tobacco use, high-risk alcohol consumption, sedentary lifestyles and poor nutritional habits. By leveraging a health promotion initiative, employers can take important steps toward preventing unnecessary sickness and death.

Reason #3 : The Work Week is Expanding
The typical American now works 47 hours a week - 164 more hours a year - than 20 years ago. Without question, an ever-growing work week poses a number of threats to the health and well-being of your employees. However, health promotion programs can alleviate some of these concerns.

Reason #4 : The Technology Revolution is On
Since 1983, American businesses have added 25 million new computers to the nation's business operations. Our increased reliance on technology has ushered in a whole host of health concerns including repetitive stress injuries, low back problems and compromised vision. Left unaddressed, these issues can have a serious impact in terms of the health of your employees and to your company checkbook.

Reason #5 : Employee Stress Levels are Increasing
In a recent nationwide poll, 78% of Americans describe their job as stressful. The vast majority indicated that their stress levels have worsened over the past ten years. If left unchecked, high levels of stress will exact a very real toll on your business, from increased accidents, to reduced productivity, to unnecessary absenteeism and increased medical care costs.
Adapted from Wellness Councils of America

Corporate Testimonials

"We have been searching for a Wellness Program that we could offer to all our employees on a consistent basis year after year. Tim Hatfield, Pikeville Medical Center, contacted me last year and told me about the Health Advantage Program. This program is just the type of program that we have been searching for. A provider that would be willing to service all our locations throughout Kentucky and West Virginia as well as provide a quality service.

	Ken Earley Senior Vice President Director of Human Resources Community Trust Bank

For more information and/or package rates, contact

Janie Hall, Director of Employee Health/Infection Control
at (606) 218-3966
or by email at janie.hall@pikevillehospital.org