New AAOHN Web site offers assessment tool
New AAOHN Web site offers assessment tool
The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) in Atlanta has launched a new Web site called the "Bottom Line Business Health Check-Up."
The site features an on-line assessment tool that lets companies quickly and easily assess their health care costs while offering solutions for reducing health care expenses. Many of those solutions will involve working with their local occupational health providers.
The assessment tool gives human resource, occupational health, risk management, finance, and other corporate decision makers the opportunity to assess their company’s workers’ compensation claims, employee health care costs, and lost workday cases by comparing them to national averages.
Tool recommends ways to reduce costs
The tool determines whether the company’s health care costs are below, near, or above the national average for the selected health care expenditure. It then provides the user with a recommendation for reducing their company’s health care spending while improving employee health and morale.
Each recommendation also introduces users to the unique roles occupational health nurses and other specialists can play in keeping health care costs in check, says AAOHN president Deborah DiBenedetto. "With health care costs increasing nearly 2.5 times faster than any other benefit cost, companies are continuously looking for innovative ways to reduce bottom line spending.
"Since occupational health nurses can play a key role in a company’s financial and employee health, we felt it was important for us to bring this free on-line tool as a service to businesses, she says.
Occupational health nurses may be one of business’ best kept secret weapons in the fight to lower health care costs, she says.
"The occupational health nurse is an untapped corporate resource who is well-equipped to decrease the cost of lost time," DiBenedetto says.
"For more than 100 years, occupational health nurses have not only promoted wellness within the work force, but helped companies manage nonoccupational disabilities, reduce on-the-job injuries, and get workers back to work sooner," she adds.
(To view the site, go to: www.bizhealthcheck.com.)
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