Healthy Workplaces Newsletter
The Resilience Issue for HR Managers and Wellness Coordinators
In the midst of a pandemic and a long winter, now is the time to practice and build resilience skills. Below is a wide range of resources to help you help your employees.
Working Onsite at Your Workplace? Tips for Leaders.
Originally created for health care leaders, these tips for managers to show employees they care can translate to all employees who have returned to their workplace.
Seven things you can do as a leader (PDF)
Resources to Assist Employees with Mental Health Concerns
Connecting with your employees about their concerns is key to supporting them during the pandemic. The PsychHub COVID-19 Employers page has interesting videos, resources, PDFs and podcasts to share with employees and help you be a more responsive manager to employee concerns. Curated from a wide range of national experts, these tools can be sprinkled in emails, shared on the company’s intranet or wellness page, or shared one-on one.
Simple Steps to Stay Active
Manage your stress. Create a daily self-care routine. Exercise, meditate, and keep to a daily routine as much as possible. Start, renew, or maintain activity in your life. For more information on how to be active, visit MDH: Staying Active During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
And don’t let winter get you down! Here are some tips to help you get active outdoors. American Heart Association: How to stay active in cold weather.
Managing Chronic Conditions during COVID-19
Everyone is at risk for getting COVID-19 if they come into contact with the virus. Some people are more likely than others to get very sick. People of any age who have serious underlying medical conditions might be at higher risk for severe illness from COVID-19. Help your employees manage their chronic conditions during the pandemic: Managing your health during COVID-19 (PDF).
Learn more about how to stay safe and manage your health at MDH: Managing Chronic Conditions during COVID-19.
WEBINAR: High-value Care for Chronic Conditions During COVID-19
The use of services to maintain and manage physical and mental health has fallen sharply during the pandemic. People are foregoing immunizations, testing, screening and treatment to prevent illness and to treat chronic and serious conditions. More than 50% of those with a chronic condition have delayed care during the pandemic.
The bad news: Chronic disease places enormous burdens on individuals, families, communities, employers, payers, and governments. A recent Minnesota study shows 10-year projections of health care spending steadily increasing across all chronic conditions and risk factors statewide. This is likely to worsen even further if patients continue to forego care during COVID-19.
The good news: Telehealth, optimizing data to boost outreach efforts, and other innovative solutions can maintain continuity of care for the six in 10 Americans living with at least one chronic disease like heart disease and stroke, COPD, cancer, and diabetes.
Please join us for a fast-paced, complimentary lunch-and-learn webinar to get the latest information about how employers are getting results with high-value chronic disease prevention and care programs. You will:
- Learn to assess your organization’s risk of doing nothing.
- Gain information about how Minnesota employers are reengaging employees in needed care.
- Come away with valuable tools and resources to help your organization act to keep people healthy and reduce pressure on our stressed health care system.
WHEN: February 3, 2020
TIME: 11:30-12:30 (CST)
REGISTER: https://minnesota.webex.com/minnesota/k2/j.php?MTID=t082619b88c0ddb145534c8fbb930c9a7
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