The Wellness Council of America (WELCOA), with its local affiliate, the Wellness Council of Wisconsin, presented the coveted Well Workplace Awards to seven Wisconsin employers this week.
The Wellness Council of Wisconsin announced the following Gold Well Workplace Award winners: the Appleton Area School District, Appleton; AZCO INC., Menasha; Bassett Mechanical, Kaukauna; Chr. Hansen Inc., Milwaukee; Galloway Company, Neenah; and Logistics Health, Inc., La Crosse.
Sauk Prairie Memorial Hospital and Clinics, Sauk Prairie, received the Platinum Well Workplace Award.
The Well Workplace Award designation is awarded throughout the year to employers from around the nation that have implemented corporate health initiatives to improve the lives of their employees. This brings the total Well Workplace Award winners to 17 in Wisconsin for 2013, year-to-date.
The Well Workplace Awards initiative is driven by a rigorous set of criteria outlined in WELCOA’s seven benchmarks to a results-oriented Well Workplace.
David Hunnicutt, president of the Wellness Council of America stated, “In a time when the health of our nation’s workers is not what it should be and health care costs consistently reflect this trend, the Well Workplace initiative provides employers with a powerful approach to stemming the tide of increasing costs and systematically working toward improving the health and well-being of their most valuable asset- their employees.”
Wellness Council of Wisconsin executive director Jessica Raddemann said, “These employers worked hard to successfully meet the rigorous standards set by the Well Workplace process. It is our pleasure to recognize them as the newest Wisconsin employers to achieve Well Workplace status.”
