Attentive Health is proud to be one of several corporate members in the Alliance of Human Resource Providers (”AHRP”), a team of subject matter experts in HR serving the Greater Philadelphia region.

The Alliance sponsors quarterly presentations on rotating subjects for HR leaders and business owners at the Talamore Country Club in Ambler, PA. The events are easy to attend, they get right to the point, and are full of information. Best of all, they’re free to the public & your time includes a complimentary networking reception with light refreshments. Each event also includes a drawing for a complimentary golf membership to the Talamore that can be used for 1 year… a terrific bonus if your business card is drawn!

Never been to an event? Now’s your chance! Our next seminar is being hosted on Thursday, June 17th from 3:00-6:00 p.m. Denise Lantz, President of Attentive Health, and Kevin Melesky of First Contact HR will be presenting “Wellness on a Shoestring & Reducing Costly Turnover” — focused on how business leaders can subtract dollars from the ever-growing cost of doing business in two critical areas of HR risk management: health care and hiring. Click here for details & registration.

The last 2 events each gathered 60 or so business professionals from around the region in a fun & engaging atmosphere. In April, the topic was “Getting Great People & Making Benefits Count” with Daniel Ebbert of Strategic Research Solutions & Bob Thorsen of Colonial Life presenting. In January, we kicked off the year with “Maximize Employee Wealth & Wellness“, a presentation by Marc Rosenberg of United Benefits Group & Elena Sickles from Edward Jones. At our next seminar on September 16th, 2010 the event format will change with a panel discussion on “Improving Your Bottom Line” in which each sponsoring member of the AHRP will present a brief topic in rotating small group sessions.

If you are interested in these or any other AHRP activities, please join our LinkedIn Group page by clicking here. This page serves as a communication avenue for events, as well as being a forum for attendees to share ideas and continue their discussions online.

If you’re in HR, or have a vested interest in human capital management, we hope to see you at a future AHRP event! In the meantime, as always, if you have any thoughts or suggestions, please contact us.

Staying in touch and providing unique, relevant & brief bits of useful information is important, so we think it’s a good thing that options abound these days. In fact, in the past few months, Attentive Health has added several tools that enable us to stay in touch through whatever means work best for our clients, colleagues & friends. For starters, we have a Facebook business page, a Twitter conversation & a  LinkedIn Group. On yet another level, the option now exists to be notified of our events & company news postings using an RSS feed.

It is with great pleasure that we now enlist the help of a friendly email/newsletter service that is not only helping us change the way we send messages (and do so more consistently), but will also help improve the content to be more topic-focused & personalized to our readers. Introducing our new friend: Mail Chimp.

So if you or someone you know would like to receive our email updates and newsletters (with the option to unsubscribe at any time, no questions asked), just click on the furry messenger below to subscribe to certain  topics & preferred email formats. No spam, no privacy violations: just brief, useful information. We promise.

Every 10 years since 1980, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) leverages scientific insights and lessons learned from the past decade, along with new knowledge of current data, trends, and innovations to formulate national objectives to promote health and prevent disease. Healthy People 2010 is the current effort in this area, and will soon to be updated by Healthy People 2020.

Attentive Health is honored to be able to contribute to this effort and offer our insights as a community stakeholder to help shape the future of this initiative. Thus far, we’ve joined the Healthy People Consortium and been asked to provide input via the public comment process. As the initiative moves forward, we look forward to further advancing the objectives of Healthy People 2020 by incorporating this national resource into our program planning. We encourage all of our colleagues in the wellness & health promotion industry to do the same!

If there was any question before, the fact is now evident: the era of social media has arrived. A great little video that demonstrates this full-force can be viewed here… wow!

With all of that (and more!) in mind, we’ve been taking steps to leverage social media be accessible and stay connected to our clients, customers, and friends… as well as helping them connect with one another. Of course, there is no one-size-fits-all in these sorts of things, so please see below for links to our various pages on LinkedIn, Facebook & Twitter. Wherever you choose, whenever you like, you can follow us, friend us, share us with your friends, and make friends with our friends! There’s truly nothing like having a supportive community in which to share ideas, information, and great conversation…

Happy networking!

For a listing of all upcoming Attentive Health LLC events, check out our new events registration page by clicking here on EventBrite, where you can also subscribe to receive notices of all future postings.

In the meantime, here’s a list of our newly-scheduled events:

• WEBINAR on February 18th (10:00 - 11:00 a.m.)
  Wellness Programs on an Unhealthy Budget

• LUNCHEONS in the Greater Philadelphia area (11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
  Good Health Is Good Business: Reduce current & future costs by managing behavior and lifestyle risks in your workforce

  February 25th @ Revivals Restaurant, Perkasie PA
  March 25th @ The Drafting House, Ambler PA
  March 29th @ McCoole’s Red Lion Inn, Quakertown PA

Feel free to invite your friends or colleagues, and as always, please contact us with any questions or comments. We look forward to seeing you!

Attentive Health, LLC is pleased to announce our affiliation with the U.S. Wellness Chamber of Commerce and our role in educating the public about the unique opportunities for both employers and health & wellness professionals through the Healthy People 2010 Grant. With responsibilities in both Risk Management and Health Coaching, we’re honored to be part of the Chamber’s leadership team and lend our support to this national initiative as the first provider in the Greater Philadelphia area.

For employers, the grant makes best-practice wellness programming available with no investment required by the employer. The program includes an onsite program kickoff/launch meeting for employees, Health Risk Assessments for employees and spouses, basic biometric data collection, a follow-up meeting with a certified health coach, monthly lunch & learn seminars, annual ROI reporting, and the option to add additional intervention services (employee-paid). The grant is primarily focused on providing these services to small and mid-sized businesses, but larger employers are also welcome to participate. More information is available on the Healthy People 2010 Grant website.

To enroll or learn more about how you or your company can get involved in this rapidly-growing program, please contact us.

We’ve officially joined “The Conversation”. Follow us on Twitter for info on Corporate Wellness, the ongoing Health Care Debate, tweets of interest to leaders and HR professionals, and the occasional health & well-being tip.

Able Magazine featured Part II of our article in their September issue. Click here for a direct link.

You may also want to get ahead of the curve and put the film Food Inc. in your Netflix cue (it comes to DVD in November). Like any documentary, it has it’s moments of hyperbole, but all-in-all, opens up a much-needed debate about the real price of food, and what we can do about it.

Our “Food vs. Dollar” article was published in the August edition of Able Magazine. Click here to read the article and learn a bit more about how to be a budget-wise but healthy consumer. While you’re at it, peruse the magazine in it’s entirety — several thought-provoking articles and lots of great info!

Denise G. Lantz (President & Founder, Attentive Health LLC) & Elizabeth N. Lawton (President & Founder, Nutritious Harmony LLC)

Attentive Health LLC is pleased to announce the launch of a partnership with Nutritious Harmony LLC, a Washington D.C.-based wellness company and consultant to various organizations inside the “beltway”. Nutritious Harmony’s latest project is to provide employee and leadership training at US Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) in the Washington Navy Yard. Attentive Health has been contracted to develop and facilitate the leadership portion of that training, a program dubbed ”Operation YOU”.

“Operation YOU” has been specifically designed to engage leadership in the process of personal health transformation, while also attuning them to the needs of their entire organization. It has been said that great leaders are stewards of productive, positive energy, both in themselves and in those around them. Attentive Health’s program aims to increase and facilitate exactly that within the culture of NAVSEA. The first segment of the 6-month/6-module training course is titled “Mission Engagement” and was delivered on June 19, 2009 to the first group of NAVSEA leaders, including the admiral who is leading the initative.

In some ways, this has been a bit of a “coming home” for Attentive Health President & Founder, Denise Lantz, who grew up on Naval bases throughout the US & abroad over the course of her father’s career as a Navy Chaplain. It also marks another step forward in Attentive Health’s mission to incorporate wellness into the busy lives of modern, everyday people.