MercyCare shares your goal of decreasing your health care costs and believe the healthy worker is the most productive worker.   MercyCare feels this is best accomplished by offering programs onsite that not only focus on managing those employees with known illnesses, but also screening and preventing common illnesses.  View our links for further details on how we can partner with your company.

Health and Wellness Topics: (click title to go to specific topic)

Health Risk Assessment

Health Screenings/Health Fairs

Use of Incentives

Health and Wellness Consultation

Helpful Internet Links

Health Risk Assessments

MercyCare is pleased to report that we have moved our health risk assessment (HRA) program online.  This makes it more accessible to all of our members.  An HRA is a short, confidential survey designed to assess one's true health status by giving a "wellness score" and "health age" that reflects one's lifestyle habits and current health.  A sample member report along with survey questions is located on the side bar.

Our HRA reports provide companies with information to assist you in understanding your workforce's health status and productivity.  You will receive no individual employee data.  The following reports are available to you at no cost when you have 20 or more employee's/spouses, who are enrolled in MarcyCare:

• Executive Summary-Prioritizes risk factors and recommendations for health improvement programs based on the needs of the group. 
• Economic Impact Report-Determines your average medical claims cost per employee and compares those costs to the goals you have set
• Group Summary-Provides graphical representation for nearly every risk factor, allowing you to easily view and fine-tune your wellness efforts.
• Progress/trend Report-Illustrates the impact of your wellness efforts by showing changes and improvements from the previous testing periods.

Sample reports for all of the reports listed above are located on the side bar.

Please contact Mary Hesse at 800-752-3431 extension 3070, or directly at 608-741-5236 or e-mail at mhesse@mhsjvl.org for more information on getting a group report.

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Use of Incentives

The more employees that take the HRA, the more accurate the report represents your workforce.  We highly encourage our employers to offer incentives to their employees who complete the assessment.  There are many types of incentives ranging from a drawing to health premium reduction.  We will be able to provide a list of employees who have taken the HRA if you provide an incentive.  Contact Ryan Pelz at 800-752-3431 extension 3035 for more information or e-mail at rpelz@mhsjvl.org.

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Health & Wellness Consultation

As MercyCare's Quality and Health Initiatives Team Leader, my role is to assist MercyCare insured companies in promoting health and wellness in the workplace.  MercyCare Health Plans would like to partner with you to plan workplace wellness activities.  Contact Dee Sternhagen at 1-800-758-3431 Ext. 3001

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Helpful Internet Links

Wellness Council of America
A resource for worksite wellness, the Wellness Council of America is dedicated to helping organizations of all kinds build and sustain results-oriented wellness programs.

Wisconsin Wellness Council
The Wellness Council is the only nonprofit organization in Wisconsin dedicated exclusively to helping employers design results-oriented wellness programs to maximize the health and productivity of their most valuable asset - their employees.

Wisconsin's Governor's Challenge
The Wisconsin Governor's Challenge was introduced to motivate kids and adults, individuals and groups - such as worksites, to have fun while staying active. This program uses a paper log for individuals to track their activity.

President's Challenge
The President's Challenge is a program that encourages all Americans to make being active part of their everyday lives. Individuals can sign up as a group or individual. Points are earned using and Internet based log. Mercy Health Systems currently uses this program for its physical activity initiative.

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