MaineGeneral wins national award for workplace wellness
MaineGeneral Health, the state’s third-largest health care system, is one of three employers nationwide to receive this year’s C. Everett Koop Honorable Mention Award, which recognizes organizations whose health promotion programs improve workers’ well-being and business outcomes.
The awards have been given annually since 1994 by The Health Project, a nonprofit organization that supports the development of cost-effective disease prevention practices.
In a news release, the organization noted that MaineGeneral’s employee health and wellness program has saved the system an estimated $1 million. Although self-insured, MaineGeneral has not had to change its health benefit design or increase the employee share of its health coverage premiums for the last four years, according to the release.
MaineGeneral, the parent of MaineGeneral Medical Center in Augusta, employs over 4,500 workers in 31 locations. The system operates a department dedicated to workplace health, which serves not only MaineGeneral but contracts with roughly 250 other employers in the Kennebec Valley region.
For the second consecutive year, The Health Project conferred honorable mentions instead of selecting an outright winner of the Koop Award, which has gone to fewer than 65 recipients in its history.
In addition to MaineGeneral, the 2018 honorees are Kaiser Permanente, one of the country’s largest managed health-care organizations, and LG&E and KU Energy, which provides electricity and natural gas service in Kentucky and Virginia.
The awards will be presented at a health-care industry conference in Florida on Oct. 3.
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