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Fit Essentials Virtual Wellness Center is designed to fully assist companies and organizations in performing population health and needs assessments and to plan and implement health enhancement programs.

We have flexible, customizable tools to identify existing health issues, predict future risks, and gauge interest and participation in your programs. Our Virtual Wellness Center's greatest asset, however, is its' personalized health improvement tools: participants can log activities and workouts, log specialty measures such as glucose or other personal values, participate in incentive programs, enroll online in your upcoming worksite/online seminars and presentations, learn more about their specific needs by taking our health risk assessment or other questionnaires, and understand their specific health condition/illness by reading articles or watching videos.

Fit Essentials Virtual Wellness Center is highly interactive and offers a variety of lifestyle and behavioral changing services and programs to your participants/employees:

• Health, Lifestyle and Productivity Health Risk Assessment (HRA)
  • Starts with a series of ACSM-validated medical screening questions
  • Includes the brilliant new Health-Related Productivity Loss Index (HPLI) with total cost estimation for ROI calculations
  • Readiness for Change assessment
  • Lifestyle assessment questions:
    • Physical activity
    • Diet and Weight
    • Substance Use
    • Psychological and Social Health
    • Provides the participant with a detailed "plan for action" once completed.
• Health Risk Assessment Reports *no minimum participation required*
  • Receive aggregate reports indentifying low risk, at-risk, and high risk participants
• Fun and motivating online incentive programs
  • Participants track their progress online
  • Points earned can be redeemed for prizes shown online (if applicable) 
  • Earn points for:
    • Activities logged,
    • Pedometer steps,
    • Attendance,
    • Classes or special programs completed, or any other lifestyle-related activity
• Team Lean Challenge - Weight Loss Challenge
  • Group weight loss competition/program
• Online Classes and Activity Calendar
• Employee Wellness Plans with weekly and quarterly goal establishment using the model patented by WellCoaches
• Fitness Coach  
  • Available by phone and email
  • Monitor activity and encourage health behaviors
  • Inform participants and employee about upcoming employer events
  • Develop fitness and wellness plans for employees using every accessible resource available (i.e., fitness center, community based programs, programs at work, online, health fairs, etc.) 
• Fitness Testing (ACSM fitness tests)
  • Senior Fitness Test
  • Fullerton Advanced Balance Scale
    • Plus other balance & mobility assessments
  • New "peak Vo2" tests for impaired populations
  • A variety of other popular fitness tests

Participants can also:

• Log workouts and track progress
• Receive workouts (with pictures & descriptions)
• Track Weight Over Time
• Enter Blood Pressure Values
• Use True Age, Nutrition Analysis, and Osteoporosis Risk tools
• Check their organizations upcoming wellness events, activities, and classes on our calendar
• Enter data in participant-specific Logs (e.g. a glucose log for a diabetic)
• Read Online Health and Fitness Articles

Our Virtual Wellness Center is more than a content based application, it is a suite of fully interactive programs and services that help your participants and employees translate their increased awareness of health into action and tangible results.

• Health Risk Assessment (HRA) questionnaire. This instrument features a full spectrum of health status, productivity, health risk and personal motivation questions. Upon completing the instrument, participants receive a detailed status report that is then used to guide the content they are shown whenever they log into the system. Our staff will collaborate with your management team and use the results to plan interventions and support programs appropriate for the population.
• A complete workflow for participant sign-up including: online account creation, a consent form, a medical screening questionnaire and routing to a doctor's consent form if they are high or moderate risk. The consent form and medical screening are optional but, if chosen, new participants must complete them before being fully admitted to our Virtual Wellness Center.
• New! The Health Related Productivity Loss Instrument - a new enhancement in the Health Risk Assessment features a series of cutting edge "presenteeism" questions to gauge the impact of health-related issues on workplace productivity.
• Population Data Analysis reports help you understand the challenges faced by your population and to plan interventions to meet these challenges.
• Fun, online Incentive Program permits participants to earn points by being active,participating in special events and classes, logging their body weight or even by taking online assessments. Participants can claim prizes (which you define) right online.
• Start a Biggest Loser weight loss competition: We'll coordinate, organize, and facilitate your next Weight Loss competition online, saving your HR and benefits personnel tons of time and energy. Participants enroll online, enter and track their weight online, and can review their weight loss progress. We can provide registration reports, activity reports, and aggregate results.
• Walking Programs using Pedometers: Your participants can enter and track their daily steps
• An Activity Logging Area complete with historical analysis showing aggregate calories, points, and pounds!
• Online Workouts: Our fitness coach can create workouts using sophisticated workout management tools and participants can retrieve their workout when they visit. They can even review photos and descriptions of their exercises or log the workout right on the site.
• Supplemental questionnaires include our compelling "True Age" Questionnaire (which also produces an "Aging Rate" index), the Nutritional Assessment, and an Osteoporosis Risk Assessment.
• Fitness Coach - Our fitness coach will conduct a one-on-one telephonic health consultation and provide resources and solutions for your participants specific health and fitness needs based on their health condition and HRA report
• Wellness Plans with weekly and quarterly goalestablishment
• Custom User Logs: We can keep a complete record of any type of participant data. For example, you can easily track glucose levels for a diabetic or training and race times for a participant interested in competitive running.
• Customized Messaging for individuals, single facilities, or your entire participant base.
• An Online Calendar - Place all your wellness events and activities on our calendar so your employees from any location in the country or world can view and participate. Employees can even enroll in activities and events online.

Integrate Your Wellness Program

Fit Essentials Virtual Wellness Center is your ultimate solution to wellness programming. You can integrate your entire wellness activity itinerary in our Virtual Wellness Center allowing all your participants or employees to view them on our calendar and enroll online. We can put your seminars; presentations; national wellness events (i.e. prostate cancer awareness, national wear red Day, breast cancer awareness); annual 5k walk/run, company sports leagues schedule (softball, basketball, golf, etc); worksite health screenings and health fairs (cholesterol, blood pressure, eye exam, etc), on our calendar for enhanced communication, and accessibility.   

We can also work with your existing vendors and providers integrating all of your worksite and offsite wellness programs.  

 Building a Culture of Wellness

It is no secret that successful wellness programs do more than just educate participants: they build cultures where health-enhancing behaviors become normal and expected. It is also no secret that you cannot simply decree that your participants will adopt these behaviors. Instead, you must find ways to help participants internalize the value of wellness. Education is just the first step: fun and engaging programs, accessible events and activities and an ability to leverage the power of teamwork and social "network" effects must all be a part of your repertoire.

The Scalable Solution

Virtual Wellness Center can include participants from multiple organizations and locations plus we have three additional - and optional - categories (department, executive team, etc). This gives us incredible flexibility when generating reports, lists, and emails for your organization and participants. We easily handle organizations with 100,000 plus employees or participants, but just as importantly, we can scale (and price) a solution for less than 1,000 people.

Enrollment Has Never Been Easier

Once your organization partners with us, you'll need a way to get all of your participants enrolled! Our Virtual Wellness Center is unmatched in its ability to give you a quick and customizable enrollment process and it is all done right online (even the enrollment configuration). You can include - or not - a consent form, a medical screening form, the full HRA, a program billing option and even a Physician's Consent form.

If you already have a list of your participants in a spreadsheet or other file, we can handle the upload with ease. If you are a large organization and desire integration with PeopleSoft or other HR software, we have an integration backplane already in place waiting for you. We even work seamlessly with "single sign-on" systems like WebSeal.

Secure and Always Available

Your participants or employees will need to trust that their data will be secure.  Our Virtual Wellness Center Tier-3 data center features a powerful, secure network with dual fiber-optic connections to the Internet, sophisticated intrusion detection systems, on-site power generation capabilities and enterprise-level switching components. Your data is hosted on a powerful, mirrored server cluster with automatic failover in the event of a hardware problem. The database cluster is safely tucked away behind a hardware firewall that prevents access from anywhere except our web server farm and home office. All sites feature an SSL encryption certificate to ensure that data can't be monitored while your participants are using the site as well as encryption of personally identifiable data in the database.

Our Virtual Wellness Center is audited annually for security vulnerabilities by a team of security experts from Hewlett-Packard that attempt to compromise a simulated site and discover data. Our work with the HP security team helps ensure that our security policies are second to none.