Creating a Culture for Hospital Employee Wellness

A new American Hospital Association report looks at health and wellness programs for hospital employees.

The report provides:

• Background on health and wellness programs and how they are incentivized by the Affordable Care Act.
• Findings from an AHA survey of 876 hospitals on their employee health and wellness activities.
• Examples of hospital best practices, ranging from a smaller critical access hospital to large integrated health system.
• Seven “how-to” recommendations for the field. These recommendations provide goals as well as action steps and examples of how hospitals can meet these goals.

Source: AHA Long-Range Policy Committee, chaired by John W. Bluford III. A call to action: creating a culture of health. Chicago: American Hospital Association, Jan. 2011. http://www.aha.org/aha/issues/Health-for-life/culture.html