DERBY - Griffin Hospital received the 2016 bronze level recognition in the American Heart Association’s inaugural results of the Workplace Health Achievement Index, a science-based and evidence-informed measurement that assesses and recognizes workplace health programs.
Initiated by the AHA’s CEO Roundtable, the Index provides employers with best practices to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their workplace health programs.
Initiated by the AHA’s CEO Roundtable, the Index provides employers with best practices to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their workplace health programs.
“We are honored to have achieved this recognition from the American Heart Association,” said Griffin Hospital Director of Human Resources Stephen Mordecai.
“A key strategy at Griffin Hospital is to build a supportive culture that engages employees in their health and well-being, and provides them with many choices for how they can help improve their health outcomes.”
The Workplace Health Achievement Index is unique in that it scores and recognizes companies on the structure of their workplace health program and their employee’s heart health based on Life’s Simple 7® - the AHA’s seven behaviors and metrics for ideal heart health.
Research shows that improving these seven factors can lead to significant reductions in heart disease, stroke, cancer, and many other health problems.
In addition, people who achieve ideal cardiovascular health by age 50 have significantly lower lifetime risk of heart disease and stroke, and live, on average, approximately 10 years longer than people with two or more risk factors.
“The stakes are high. We need to act now to improve the health of the American workforce,” said Angelina Stackpole, director for the American Heart Association in Greater New Haven.
“The Index offers employers a science-based approach to assess the quality of health programs and the overall heart health of their employees. The Index also offers a roadmap for continuous quality improvement regardless of where a company may be in that journey.”
Comprehensively designed and fully implemented workplace health programs can help with job satisfaction and employee retention, as verified by a Nielsen 2016 Employee Health Survey. The Workplace Health Achievement Index gives companies a specific framework they can adopt to improve the quality and effectiveness of their programs, while learning from one another. The AHA CEO Roundtable companies serve as a learning laboratory environment to develop, test and refine the Workplace Health Achievement Index, as well as additional resources for practical use.
For more information on the AHA’s continuous quality improvement in the workplace and additional workplace health resources, visit www.heart.org/workplacehealth.
About the American Heart Association
The American Heart Association is devoted to saving people from heart disease and stroke - America’s No. 1 and No. 5 killers. We team with millions of volunteers to fund innovative research, fight for stronger public health policies, and provide lifesaving tools and information to prevent and treat these diseases.
The American Heart Association is devoted to saving people from heart disease and stroke - America’s No. 1 and No. 5 killers. We team with millions of volunteers to fund innovative research, fight for stronger public health policies, and provide lifesaving tools and information to prevent and treat these diseases.
The Dallas-based association is the nation’s oldest and largest voluntary organization dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke. To learn more or to get involved, call 1-800-AHA-USA1, visit heart.org or call any of our offices around the country. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
This is a press release from Griffin Hospital.
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