Health and Wellness Programs

You can lower your company’s healthcare costs and increase your productivity by getting on track with DAKOTACARE Population Health. This interactive program helps increase productivity for businesses by reducing absenteeism, lowering healthcare claims, as well as boosting self-esteem and morale among your employees.

Through a unique health and wellness initiative, you can help promote healthier living by providing programs to encourage health awareness and an overall quality of life. These healthy initiatives can then be passed along to family members helping reduce medical claims for dependants.

Since each company has unique circumstances when it comes to wellness, Population Health experts will come to your place of business and individually assess your needs and create a program specific to your employees.

Your personalized program can also include:

• Health Assessments: DAKOTACARE’s Health Risk Assessment is a self report that identifies individual and group health risks to target members lifestyles, as well as providing recommendations for leading healthier lifestyles. From the health assessment, DAKOTACARE is able to track health improvements that demonstrate health savings.
   
• Health Screenings: On-site health screenings may include, but are not limited to: personal and family medical history, total cholesterol, blood glucose level, blood pressure, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, tobacco use and physical activity discussions, as well as health education and individual consultation with a healthcare professional. Consultation is provided by trained DAKOTACARE health care staff.
   
• Wellness Programs: Customized six and/or eight week programs designed for individuals of all ages and activity levels. These fun, themed, interactive programs will focus on areas such as the importance of cardiovascular exercise, drinking water, stretching, muscular fitness and nutrition. The customizable wellness programs allow you to implement them on within an individual or group challenge.
   
• Education: Informative health and wellness newsletters can be sent via email on a monthly or quarterly basis. DAKOTACARE also has a variety of health and wellness related education available upon request. 
   
• Preventative Health Services: Health awareness and disease prevention is the key to staying healthy. DAKOTACARE’s Preventative Health Services are designed to help individuals achieve and maintain good health. A comprehensive list of Preventative Health Services can be found by clicking here.  
   
• Tobacco Cessation: Onsite, interactive program available for tobacco users to provide them the support needed to overcome their tobacco usage. This program will help individuals identify their reasons and triggers for usage, set and prepare a quit date and offer them the overall tools needed to become (and remain) tobacco free.  DAKOTACARE is proud to be a tobacco free workplace!