Premera Associates Wellness Program

Categories: Diabetes Prevention,Promote Health and Wellness

As an employer, Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alaska is committed to fostering a culture of health.  To support associates’ efforts to make choices that improve or maintain their health, Premera spearheads several wellness initiatives.  In the program’s first year, the initiatives focused on the importance of knowing your key health risk indicators, including blood pressure, cholesterol, blood glucose and body mass index.  Now, the initiative is expanding to the next logical step of the wellness journey: taking action to improve those numbers when necessary.

Additionally, Premera is looking to remove barriers that may prevent associates from taking action.  To that end, Premera Blue Cross promotes prevention services and made changes to its employee medical benefits plan such as covering screening mammography in full.  Premera encourages workplace wellness through healthy options with free onsite biometric screenings and campus and community activities that use a points-based rewards program.