About Healthyroads

Program Management

Our certified program managers serve as a single point of contact at Healthyroads, providing telephone-based and worksite support to help clients:

Assess their organization and develop a strategy to promote a “culture of health” at the workplace
Organize and execute broad-based health promotion campaigns
Provide guidance in structuring incentive programs and wellness activities to optimize employee engagement

Other support services include Webinars, utilization report review, and participation on wellness committees.

Accreditation

Healthyroads was one of the first five companies nationally to receive Comprehensive Wellness Program accreditation from URAC. Healthyroads also continues to maintain URAC accreditation for Health Website and HIPAA Privacy and Security. These accreditations demonstrate Healthyroads’ commitment to meeting high standards and being accountable to an external accreditation process.

Clinical Outcomes

Healthyroads Coaching^® has achieved significant clinical outcomes as follows:

Of those who lost weight in the program, the average weight loss was 9.6 pounds.
Approximately 85 percent of all Healthyroads participants reduced at least one health risk through improvements in their eating habits, activity levels, and/or stress management techniques.
The six-month quit rate (intent to treat) of members engaged in the Healthyroads Tobacco Cessation program is over 30 percent. Average weight gain for those quitting tobacco was .3 pounds.

Member Satisfaction

Participant satisfaction in the Healthyroads Coaching program indicates that:

90 percent were satisfied with program services
95 percent were satisfied with the quality of the coaching experience
88 percent indicated the program helped them meet health improvement goals
86 percent would recommend the program to family or friends

Published Study

In September 2008, the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine published "Using an ROI Estimation Model to Evaluate Outcomes from an Obesity Management Worksite Health Promotion Program" which demonstrated a credible and practical measurement method and a positive return-on-investment of 1.17 to 1.00 in the first year on the fees paid by payors for the Healthyroads Coaching program. The study, co-authored by representatives from Thomson Reuters and Healthyroads, also demonstrated significant decreases in risk prevalence for participants' poor eating habits (21.3% reduction) and poor physical activity (15.1% reduction). All of the biometric measures related to overweight and obesity also decreased, including percent overweight or obese (5.8% reduction), weight (4.5 pounds reduction), and body mass index (0.9 reduction).

Awards

Over the years, Healthyroads has earned over 150 awards for excellence in member communication, including a Platinum award for Healthyroads.com from the eHealthcare Leadership Awards. Other awards include the Health Care Communicators of San Diego’s Best in Show award for the Healthyroads eXtremeQUIT^® teen tobacco cessation materials, as well as various Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards for its brochures and promotional materials.

Additionally, Healthyroads' parent company American Specialty Health (ASH) was recently named one of the country's 5000 fastest-growing private companies by Inc. magazine for the second time, earned its third consecutive Gold "Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles" awards from the National Business Group on Health and its fourth consecutive Silver California Fit Business awards from the California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness, was named one of America's 15 Fittest Companies by Men's Fitness magazine, and was among the "100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare" according to Modern Healthcare. In addition, ASH's marketing department was named Marketing Team of the Year 2009 by the American Marketing Association.

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