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Life Time's myHealthCheck Expands Comprehensive Wellness Programs to Five Twin Cities Businesses
CHANHASSEN, Minn. --(Business Wire)--
Life
Time - The Healthy Way of Life Company (NYSE: LTM)
today announced five new Twin (News - Alert) Cities businesses who will take part in
the myHealthCheck sm program, a program aimed to
reduce health care costs for employees, employers and insurers. Leonard
Street and Deinard, Millerbernd,
Process
Displays, Inc., City
of St. Louis Park, and J&B
Group have joined Allina Hospitals & Clinics to take part in
myHealthCheck , which includes a comprehensive health
assessment that identifies risk factors, promotes ongoing guidance with
wellness coaches and a 12-month reassessment to measure progress against
the plan.
"We are excited to launch these new partnerships and the myHealthCheck
program in such a diverse group of industries," says Holt Vaughn, Senior
Director of the HealthCheck Division at Life Time. "Our goal is to help
these companies and their employees realize measurable change and
progress in creating a healthier, more productive workforce as opposed
to relying on employee participation as the sole measure of success."
myHealthCheck empowers employees to take personal responsibility for
their health and empowers employers to author a results-based health
benefits strategy that encourages personal responsibility and rewards
employees for positive change. Coupled with Life Time's more than 2,600
fitness professionals, more than 60 registered dietitians, online
fitness and cooking videos, myPlan™ workout and nutrition trackers
myHealthCheck makes it easy.
Unlike traditional self-reported risk assessments, myHealthCheck
assesses employees' health and wellness, fitness level and lifestyle,
through blood work, metabolic testing and wellness coaching, while
providing each individual with a personalized health profile to set
personalized goals and measure progress. Users can track their exercise,
nutrition, weight loss and more through their personal myHealthCheck
online dashboard. Additionally, each myHealthCheck participant can
participate in wellness coaching sessions and receives ongoing guidance
from Life Time health and nutrition professionals. At 12 months, a new
wellness assessment is completed to gauge the employee's progress.
"Millerbernd Systems elected to join the myHealthCheck program in an
effort to create a healthy environment for our employees and to
encourage them to pay attention to nutrition and exercise," says Farid
Currimbhoy, senior vice president, Millerbernd Systems. "We are anxious
to help improve our employee's wellbeing in the years to come through
the various programs within this Life Time plan."
In 2011, Life Time introduced myHealthCheck at Allina
Hospitals & Clinics, a not-for-profit family of hospitals,
clinics and other care services throughout Minnesota and western
Wisconsin. myHealthCheck is optional for Allina's 12,000 employees but
between 70 and 75 percent of those eligible, including their spouses,
participated in the program and a majority received full credit toward
their health care premiums.
Life Time's myHealthCheck program is led by trained technicians and
wellness coach professionals who assist each employee with their
wellness profile in a mobile LifeLab at their corporate work place or at
Life Time centers. Employees are provided with an online dashboard to
track their nutrition and exercise. The myHealthCheck team remains
available to each employee to provide ongoing support by answering
questions and providing online coaching.
For more information about myHealthCheck or to get in touch with a
myHealthCheck representative, visit http://revolution.myhealthcheck.com/.
About Life Time Fitness, Inc.
As The Healthy Way of Life
Company, Life Time Fitness (NYSE:LTM) helps organizations, communities
and individuals achieve their total health objectives, athletic
aspirations and fitness goals by engaging in their areas of interest -
or discovering new passions - both inside and outside of Life Time's
distinctive and large sports, professional fitness, family recreation
and spa destinations, most of which operate 24 hours a day, seven days a
week. The Company's Healthy Way of Life approach enables customers to
achieve this by providing the best programs, people and places of
uncompromising quality and value. As of January 24, 2013, the Company
operated 105 centers under the LIFE TIME FITNESS® and LIFE TIME
ATHLETIC(SM) brands in the United States and Canada. Additional
information about Life Time centers, programs and services is available
at lifetimefitness.com.
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