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Texas Health offers health and wellness programs that enhance employees’ physical, mental and spiritual well-being.
Health and Wellness
Our nationally recognized Be Healthy wellness program provides employees with tools and resources to instill positive daily habits. From fitness memberships to nutrition coaching to tobacco cessation and weight loss support, employees access health and wellness activities, assessments, and screenings through an online platform and receive incentives for completing healthy actions.
2023 Highlights
Texas Health:
- Enabled employees and their families to complete 47,490 well-being activities through a health and wellness platform, a 57% increase from 2022. More employees participated in annual exams and screenings, with 10,937 completing biometric screenings, 10,488 visiting their physician for an annual wellness exam and 4,455 receiving mammograms.
- Assessed employees’ experience with Be Healthy and found 91% felt it helped them develop positive daily habits. Additionally, 81% felt Texas Health cares about their well-being, 67% were more energetic and productive, and 49% experienced fewer sick days.
- Received the Business Group on Health’s Best Employers: Excellence in Health & Well-Being top recognition for the seventh consecutive year. We received additional honors for allowing all employees to reach their full health potential and for leadership support in achieving measurable mental health goals.
- Earned platinum status on the American Heart Association’s new Workforce Well-being Scorecard™, designed to help employers evaluate the culture of health and well-being within their workforces.
Mental Health
Enhancing emotional well-being remains a priority for Texas Health to help our caregivers manage the stress of their jobs. Our multifaceted strategy involves prioritizing mental healthcare and dismantling the stigma surrounding it while promoting the significance of self-care. To foster a supportive environment, we offer:
- Self-Care Check-Ins, which connect employees to mental health providers for discussions on feelings, challenges and coping strategies.
- Eight free counseling sessions through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP). The EAP also offers My Wellness Connection, which deploys licensed clinicians to provide support on-site.
- Beating Burnout, a four-part series on building resilience.
- Mental Health First Aid training, a national program that identifies signs of mental illness and substance use to expedite interventions.
Additionally, we regularly engage and educate employees about the importance of self-care and how they can access social connectedness and mindfulness activities on our wellness platform and Headspace app. Texas Health Physicians Group supports physicians on the medical staff through the Mayo Clinic's Well-Being Index, a quick assessment that allows them to calibrate their well-being relative to peers. Doctors can also access evidence-based resources through Duke University’s Well-Being Initiative.
2023 Highlights
Texas Health:
- Facilitated greater access to mental health support, resulting in a significant 43.1% increase in utilization. Employees completed 11,167 virtual visits with providers (a 23% rise from 2022) and an impressive 17,464 face-to-face visits, an increase of 75%. Our EAP also engaged 10,315 employees through on-site mental health rounding visits and supported 947 staff through Self-care Check-in sessions.
- Made it easier to access support through a redesigned EAP website. Most employees (95%) reported satisfaction with their EAP experience.
- Extended free premium membership for the Headspace app at no cost to all employees. Members get access to tools that support coping, resiliency and mindfulness. Nearly 2,761 employees and 473 family members and friends enrolled.
- Hosted 30 Schwartz Rounds sessions, a forum for physicians, nurses, allied health professionals and staff to discuss the social and emotional experiences of caregiving.
- Was named to Becker Behavioral Health’s Nine Top Places to Work in Healthcare Prioritizing Mental Health.
Blue Zones Approved Worksite™
Texas Health promotes wellness and social connectedness as a certified Blue Zones Approved Worksite, a workplace that promotes employee health and longevity. Through evidence-based actions and lifestyle principles, we make healthy choices easier and increase awareness of well-being practices.
2023 Highlights
Blue Zones teams:
- Distributed appreciation packages and fruit and promoted Texas Health’s wellness resources to hospital, urgent care and primary care staff.
- Opened Texas Health’s first Café Refresh, offering employees and consumers healthy food and beverage choices. Plans are underway to open six more cafes across the system.
- Hosted a mental health series about how to talk to children about stress and emotional well-being.
- Helped build community gardens in areas of Dallas-Fort Worth identified as food deserts.
Snapshot: Study Finds Texas Health’s Wellness Program Improves Health Outcomes
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Texas Health commissioned an independent study to assess the efficacy of its comprehensive wellness program in enhancing health outcomes and reducing costs. By analyzing employees' engagement with program activities alongside medical plan utilization and claims data, researchers found: