Part of a 2-day online conference on “Benefits: Cost Containment, Audits and Legal Risks”, this 1-hour webcast is aimed at HR Executives & Wellness Program Managers who are getting started in wellness, or evaluating the direction of their wellness efforts & interested in taking their programs to the next level. The broad nature of this discussion would benefit small to mid-sized organizations in particular.

This session will elaborate on ways to make health management a truly strategic initiative, and connect its net impact to current trends in the benefits insurance industry. The discussion will focus on the business case for health management, including best practices for employee engagement, ways to address budget concerns, and how to truly quantify the return-on-investment.

Leading the discussion will be Denise G. Lantz, PHR, CHC-AADP and Mark Lacher, CIC of Lacher & Associates. Lacher & Associates is a client and partner of Attentive Health LLC, and Mark and his team have worked closely with Denise and Attentive Health in meeting the wellness & health management needs of their clients for the past several years. Together, they have a great story to tell about both the current and future trends in the insurance and health management industries.

Register online at HR.com.

Part of a 2-day online conference on “Employee Wellness”, this 1-hour webcast is aimed at HR Executives & Wellness Program Managers who are getting started in wellness, or evaluating the direction of their wellness efforts & interested in taking their programs to the next level. The broad nature of this discussion would benefit small to mid-sized organizations in particular.

This session will elaborate on ways to make health management a truly strategic initiative, and connect its net impact to current trends in the benefits insurance industry. The discussion will focus on the business case for health management, including best practices for employee engagement, ways to address budget concerns, and how to truly quantify the return-on-investment.

Leading the discussion will be Denise G. Lantz, PHR, CHC-AADP and Mark Lacher, CIC of Lacher & Associates. Lacher & Associates is a client and partner of Attentive Health LLC, and Mark and his team have worked closely with Denise and Attentive Health in meeting the wellness & health management needs of their clients for the past several years. Together, they have a great story to tell about both the current and future trends in the insurance and health management industries.

Register online at HR.com.

Attentive Health was honored to be asked to present at two upcoming Virtual Conferences being sponsored by HR.com. During the 2-day web-based conference in September on Employee Wellness and again in November for the 2-day Benefits conference, Mark Lacher & Denise Lantz will be presenting a 1-hour webcast to HR.com’s national audience.

The topic is: “Getting Strategic About Corporate Wellness: Developing a Comprehensive Health Management Strategy” and brings together timely topics about wellness in the workplace both from an insurance & risk management perspective as well as its importance as a strategic business imperative. Case studies of clients they have worked on will be presented, along with other experience gained “in the trenches”.

Tune in on Thursday, September 15th at 2pm during the Employee Wellness conference, or on Tuesday, November 15th at 2 pm during the conference on “Benefits: Cost, Containment, Audits and Legal Risks”. Playback will also be available following both conferences.

Register online at HR.com. Click here for the direct link to Mark & Denise’s presentation.

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 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 October 23rd, 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.

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!

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!