Budget your food as you do your money
A rough guideline for daily caloric intake: Multiply your ideal body weight by 10 (i.e., 1,200 calories if you want to weigh 120 pounds) and then add another 600 calories if you're moderately active, a few hundred more if you're very active. Divide those calories out across the day to keep yourself well fed.
Program Overview
In response to skyrocketing healthcare costs for employers, Exigence Healthcare Solutions creates customized Wellness programs. We work with employers, their employees and a host of healthcare professionals to design and deliver effective, sustainable programs that promote employee buy-in and inspire success.
Through self management, effective use of community resources and decision support bolstered by information technology we provide:
- An employer culture that promotes health: Exigence mobilizes community resources to meet the needs of employees. We partner with community organizations and employers to drive down health costs and develop interventions that fill gaps in needed services.
- A full employer assessment: We conduct an organizational assessment to determine a baseline and create an action plan, including incentive development.
- Advocacy: Exigence actively advocates with the progressive players in the industry for policies that improve patient care and wellness.
- Self-management support: We emphasize the patient’s central role in managing their health. We use effective self-management support strategies that include assessment, goal-setting, action planning, problem-solving and follow up.
- Decision support: Clinical care and maintenance that is consistent with scientific evidence and patient preference is consistently promoted. We share information that empowers patients to make educated decisions in order to stay healthy.
- State-of-the-art information system: We organize patient and population data to facilitate efficient and effective wellness management.
- Health risk appraisal: Wellness assessments, including health screenings, are conducted for each employee participant.
- A personal wellness report: We customize an individual report for each employee. This includes an employee-driven action plan.
- Exercise plan: A realistic exercise program is created for each individual that matches their life style.
- Health advice line: Our Wellness Coaches are available for consultations on topics that promote healthy living.
- Stress management programs
- Smoking cessation programs
- Nutrition counseling: Our dietician works with individuals to develop healthy eating habits, as well as with the organization to promote a healthy environment, i.e. cafeteria and vending machine offerings
- Initiation of preventive HR policies: Each organization receives support to create an environment that consistently fosters wellness.