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Employee health and wellness programs

Helping employees stay healthy

Aetna Health Connections℠ programs and resources are personalized to help meet the needs of each person, whether they’re healthy or managing a new or ongoing health concern.

 

Our suite of more than 70 wellness programs spans the continuum of care, from biometric screenings and tobacco cessation programs to healthy lifestyle coaching. The programs offer ways to stay healthy and prevent more serious issues. This can lead to:
 

  • Improved productivity and employee retention
  • Better employee health and morale
  • Lower health care costs
  • This online program includes a health assessment. The personalized results will help members understand where they’re at risk and what they can do. The program includes personalized online health programs, too.

     

    Topics include:

     

    • Relieving stress
    • Eating healthy and getting physical activity
    • Sleeping better
    • Quitting tobacco
    • Living well with asthma
    • Increasing physical activity
  • We offer health services and information to help empower women throughout their lives.

     

    Programs include:

     

    • Aetna Maternity Program: This program provides tips and guidance for a healthy pregnancy, plus support for high-risk pregnancies.
    • Infertility precertification unit: Members can find fertility providers, access information and education and enroll, if needed.
    • Breast health education nurse: Our nurses are a rich resource for those recently diagnosed with breast cancer. They have the most recent information on general breast health and breast cancer risk identification and can offer specialized services and support. They’re available for HMO/HNO members.
    • Cancer support centers: Our centers provide a range of personalized online resources for breast and reproductive cancers (ovarian, uterine, fallopian). They offer education on treatment options and coverage information to resources like tips for nutrition and stress relief.
    • BRCA Genetic Testing Program: This program provides genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancers (available for members at high risk).
  • Our health coaches and counselors can help members set and achieve meaningful health goals, from quitting smoking to maintaining a healthy weight.

  • Mindfulness is the practice of paying attention in the present moment without judgment. Mindfulness is about “being” rather than doing. 

     

    Mindfulness may improve mental and physical health.  People can use mindfulness programs along with conventional medicine.

     

    Our mindfulness programs teach ways to:

     

    • Help lower stress
    • Target obesity and metabolic syndrome risk factors
    • Make lasting lifestyle behavior changes

     

    Our programs include the Mindfulness at Work and Metabolic Health in Small Bytes programs. We worked with eMindful, Duke Diet and Fitness and Duke Integrated Medicine to develop and study the programs. They’re designed to lower stress levels, improve productivity and reduce or reverse metabolic syndrome risk factors.

     

    To learn more about our mindfulness programs, contact your Aetna® representative.

  • To inspire healthier people, we believe in going straight to the source.

     

    We can bring services to the workplace, such as:

     

    • On-site biometric screenings
    • Educational workshops
    • Health awareness campaigns
  • Metabolic syndrome is one of the fastest growing health issues.

     

    It’s a group of five risk factors:

     

    • Large waist size (over 35 inches for women and over 40 inches for men)
    • High blood pressure
    • High triglycerides
    • Low HDL (“good”) cholesterol
    • High blood sugar

     

    Anyone with three or more of these risk factors is at risk for metabolic syndrome. This combination can also increase the risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Improving these risk factors now can help to prevent serious — and costly — health conditions. In many cases, lifestyle changes can help, such as increased exercise and improved diet.

     

    To help combat metabolic syndrome, Aetna® has developed an approach focusing on:

     

    • Identification: Understand the health and potential risk factors of each employer’s working population.
    • Intervention: Help employers clarify their goals in this area.
    • Incenting: Connect incentives to specific results, which can help improve health.
    • Implementing: Take the information and goals and turn them into a detailed action plan.

     

    Our solution includes an array of our programs and can be adapted to any group, from those just starting to develop a wellness strategy to those with a mature strategy in place.

  • Aetna Health Connections Get Active! is a great way for plan sponsors to help people of all health and fitness levels get and stay motivated to improve their fitness and well-being.

     

    It features an online fitness and nutrition tracker, team-based challenges, social networking, emails, newsletters, activity tracking, full reporting capabilities and the option to purchase a welcome kit that includes a pedometer.

     

    Get Active! is a year-round program that offers seasonal challenges to keep people moving and motivated throughout the year. It starts with an eight-week team challenge and continues with other shorter challenges. All challenges are supported by the program’s social networking component, which drives engagement and helps create lasting behavior change.

  • Ever been up at 3 AM with a feverish infant? Had trouble sleeping because of health worries? We know that health issues don’t wait for the sun to rise. Our 24-Hour Nurse Line is there for members to talk to a registered nurse anytime, toll-free.

     

    While only your doctor can diagnose, prescribe or give medical advice, the 24-Hour Nurse Line can provide information on a variety of health topics.

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Aetna is the brand name used for products and services provided by one or more of the Aetna group of companies, including Aetna Life Insurance Company and its affiliates (Aetna).

Health benefits and health insurance plans contain exclusions and limitations. Health benefits and health insurance plans are offered and/or underwritten by Aetna Health Inc., Aetna Health of California Inc., Aetna Health Insurance Company of New York, Aetna Health Insurance Company and/or Aetna Life Insurance Company (Aetna). In Florida by Aetna Health Inc. and/or Aetna Life Insurance Company. In Maryland by Aetna Health Inc., 151 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT 06156. Each insurer has sole financial responsibility for its own products.

Health information programs provide general health information and are not a substitute for diagnosis or treatment by a physician or other health care professional.

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