It’s no secret that employee wellness leads to more efficiency and higher morale in the workplace, but some American companies are doing more than just noting this. They’re pioneering innovative employee wellness programs.

While many workplaces may just offer basic insurance programs that may or may not include things like lab tests, annual exams and prescription drug benefits, these top companies are really going above and beyond for the sake of preventive health care.

Recently Business Roundtable conducted “Doing Well through Wellness,” a study on the wellness and prevention initiatives of leading American companies. The results show how these companies’ initiatives are helping to reduce health caremanagement costs. Plus, it helps their employees stay healthy.

Business Roundtable’s study results also show that CEOs of these American companies are all about seeing that their employees have what they need to behealthy. These top companies, which include Accenture, General Mills, and Xerox,offer tools to their employees that educate them on wellness and health and also give them access to corporate wellness resources and other special programs, like quitting smoking and weight loss.

What’s really interesting about these study results is that they found three big trends when they looked at the companies’ employee wellness programs. They found that companies are educating employees about how wellness saves everyone money on health care. In addition, they found that a culture of wellness is being created by members within the company and that companies focus on giving much needed resources to employees.

Clearly, these top companies are committed to employee wellness and have a great understanding of what exactly wellness can do for their business in terms of productivity and happiness in the workplace.

So what can HealthCheckUSA do for companies and employee wellness? Giving employees access to health tests like the Heart Check Profile and the Men’s Profile test or Women’s Profile test is a great move for preventive care. If you have any questions, please contact us.

Prostate cancer has a new nemesis in prostate cancer survivor Arnold Palmer. The foundation he created to fight the spread of prostate cancer and promote prostate cancer screening is called Arnie’s Army Battles Prostate Cancer. During Palmer’s professional golf career, where he was widely considered to be one of the greatest golfers who ever lived, his enthusiastic fans were called “Arnie’s Army.” Now Palmer has put those fans to work raising money for the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Arnie’s Army also holds charity golf events that are designed to raise awareness about prostate cancer screening and the need for early detection.

It might seem odd that a golf legend is at the forefront of the fight against prostate cancer, but as Palmer says, “In the time it takes to play a round of golf, 14 men will lose their lives to prostate cancer.” This is a death toll that could be lowered if more men took prostate cancer screenings. Perhaps the word of Arnold Palmer, a man who has won seven major golf championships, will motivate people to go out and get their prostate cancer screenings. Considering that prostate cancer is more likely to develop in men over the age 50, it’s hard to imagine a better spokesman for this demographic group than a golf legend.

According to Arnie’s Army, they’ve raised $1.3 million to fight prostate cancer with their golf competitions. They do a lot of the legwork. They provide a contest kit that includes prizes for the winners, as well as Golf Digest subscriptions and souvenirs for every participant. “Arnie’s Army Battles Prostate Cancer” says that their golf contests have taught 70,000 golfers the importance of early prostate cancer screening.

Early prostate cancer screening could include a prostate cancer test called a PSA. This stands for Prostate Specific Antigen. This screens for a protein found in the blood that is produced by the prostate. Cancer might be present if there are high levels of this protein. This prostate cancer screening might also help a doctor determine if cancer has spread through other parts of the body. It might lead to more specific prostate cancer tests, such as biopsies, which require the surgical removal of tissue. In general, men over the age of 50 should get prostate cancer screenings annually. Men who have a family history of prostate cancer might have to get prostate cancer screenings at an earlier age.