Go Virginia is a "Go"!

Posted by Thomas Edwards on April 25, 2016 2:05 PM EDT

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe and GOP legislators strike a compromise on new jobs program for Virginia

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Healthy Fundraisers: Step Up for The Up Center

Posted by Joe Antle on April 21, 2016 12:00 PM EDT

The successful fundraising event for The Up Center, Step Up for The Up Center, was started six years ago, and remains a stunning example of fundraising that promotes healthy lifestyles and teamwork....

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Turkey Burgers-Healthy "Fast Food"

Posted by Thomas Edwards on April 14, 2016 6:30 PM EDT

Lots of people just love burgers, but if you haven't had a great tasting AND HEALTHY turkey burger you are missing out on one of life's great pleasures.  So, here is my favorite turkey burger recipe....

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Corporate Wellness: More than Saving $$$

Posted by Joe Antle on April 12, 2016 8:00 PM EDT

I thought that an excellent article which was written by a Miami-Herald writer, Cindy Krischer Goodman, really captured the essence of how workplace wellness programs are evolving to be more than simply a tool for improving healthy lifestyle practices of employees.....

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Seven Ways to Fix Unhealthy Eating Habits

Posted by Joe Antle on April 7, 2016 7:10 PM EDT

Regarding improving diet and nutrition, some dramatic changes can happen given a few basic ingredients:  time, motivation, doing a few things right and often and the confidence that positive changes can happen.  Like the fable of the tortoise and the hare:  slow and steady, doing it right beats fast and frenetic and trying to get results without putting in the right effort......

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Run Walk for the Kids

Posted by Joe Antle on March 29, 2016 12:10 PM EDT

The best types of healthy activity are those that promote large participation and raise funds for great community charities like CHKD.  What can be a better, healthier form of wellness activity than to do a physical challenge (physical wellbeing) involving lots of folks (social wellbeing), raise funds for helping improve the healthcare for children (community wellbeing) and costs very little to participate (financial wellbeing)?  Here are some details of this year's annual Run Walk for the Kids event to support CHKD...

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Shifting Focus of Strategic Wellbeing

Posted by Joe Antle on March 23, 2016 10:55 PM EDT

The recently published article by Lenny Liebmann and published on March 22, 2016 for EmployeeBenefitsAdviser.com is an excellent summation of what our objectives and foundation for HealthETeams Challenge is all about.  I reprint Mr. Liebmann's article below and post it as a document in the Documents tab of this profile section as an example of excellent vision for where workplace wellness programs can go....

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Teamwork and Charitable Causes

Posted by Joe Antle on March 16, 2016 2:10 PM EDT

Two recent articles in the March 13th Business section of the Sunday edition of The Virginian-Pilot address the value of teamwork and charitable causes as influences for employee participation, individual success and workplace energy...

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Energizing Workforces: A Strategic Advantage

Posted by Joe Antle on March 9, 2016 2:50 PM EST

Cox Business Executive Discussion Series program was a healthy dose of the strategic advantage of leveraging benefits and employee communcation programs to build more engagement....

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HealthETeams Telemedicine Plus Package

Posted by Joe Antle on February 29, 2016 6:50 PM EST

Three Benefits in One Great Package!  As part of a new strategy for aiming our HealthETeams Challenge workplace wellness program at real employer needs, we have created the HealthETeams Telemedicine Package.  This concept enables us to fit as a comprehensive solution for employers who want to help their employees become much better healthcare consumers....

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