The Greater Philadelphia Business Coalition on Health (GPBCH) HealthNEXT, and the CDC Foundation, announced The Greater Philadelphia Employer Culture of Health Collaborative, a collaborative aimed at enhancing the health and well-being of employees and their families as well as controlling health care costs.
With support from the CDC Foundation and leveraging HealthNEXT’s Culture of Health program, the collaborative brings GPBCH employer members together to demonstrate that a systematic assessment, strategic planning, and implementation of best practices results in enduring cultures of health and wellness. In addition, each participating employer will be guided through the process by highly experienced corporate health leaders.
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Seven GPBCH employer member organizations are participating in the Culture of Health Collaborative, including Ballard Spahr, the City of Philadelphia, Five Below, Wawa, Woods Services, and the YMCA of Delaware. This collaboration comes at a time when healthcare spending grew 9.7% in 2020, and about 45% of the U.S. population suffers from at least one chronic condition.
According to Neil Goldfarb, President and CEO of GPBCH, “one of the key reasons employers have joined our Coalition is to demonstrate their commitment to our region and identify strategies they can implement through benefits offerings and wellness programming to advance workforce and community health. We’re excited that the CDC Foundation has chosen to invest in these efforts and hope to be able to demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach so that other employers here and elsewhere can benefit from our experiences.”
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Dr. Ray Fabius, MD, HealthNEXT’s President and Chief Medical Officer and consulting medical director for GPBCH, states, “This program brings several Delaware Valley enterprises together to build benchmark organizational cultures of health using a proven methodology and best practice sharing. We are hopeful that this effort, supported by a CDC Foundation grant, will provide value to the participating companies and the Philadelphia region as a whole.”
The HealthNEXT Culture of Health program is a peer-reviewed published methodology that reduces the healthcare cost trend, improves workforce health and well-being, and increases enterprise performance for companies large and small. As part of the program, participants undergo HealthNEXT’s validated maturity model assessment to identify strengths and opportunities, resulting in a customized multi-year strategy to build a sustainable culture of health. Additionally, designated “NEXTperts”- population health experts who are former Fortune 500 Chief Medical Officers – guide the implementation. The collaboration will orchestrate sharing of best practices among employer participants through GPBCH virtual Employer Learning Collaborative sessions.
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