Health & Wellness Programs

Whole Health Dimensions

In your small business, each team member is crucial to daily operations. If people are out sick, or an employee comes to work when he or she isn't feeling well, performance suffers. And, just a few unhealthy employees can drive up health care expenses for the entire company.

Whole Health Dimensions, Wellmark's suite of health and wellness programs, supports your efforts to improve employee health, increase productivity, and better manage benefit costs. Built right into your Wellmark health plan, Whole Health Dimensions supports people at every stage of health, with programs and services along the entire health care continuum.

This integrated solution includes:

• Personal Health Assistant 24/7. Registered nurses and other health professionals are available 24/7 via phone to connect your employees to the health care help they need.
• Wellness services. Tools and resources to helps employees and their families develop healthier behaviors, including a personal health assessment and personalized online programs.
• Pharmacy management. Prescription drug benefit programs to ensure prescriptions are safe and effective, and help keep drug costs down.
• Utilization management. Manages costs by evaluating medical need and efficiency of health care services, procedures, and facilities.
• Pregnancy care. Helps keep women well through pregnancy and deliver a healthy start for babies.
• Disease management. Offers education and support to help employees with chronic diseases manage their conditions and stay healthy and productive.
• Complex case management. When an employee has a serious injury or complex medical condition, a case manager supports the doctor's treatment plan.

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