Guest blogger Dhwani Mehta, Clinical Nutrition Manager at Piedmont Medical Center, describes how they achieved Gold awards in Tobacco Cessation, Nutrition, and Physical Activity. 

 

 

Guest blogger Laura Beacham, Benefits Specialist and Wellness Coordinator for Piggly Wiggly, shares how they communicate the importance of wellness to their employees.  

 

 

Palmetto Health reflects on their achievement of the Gold Apple Award for excellence in nutrition. 

Guest blogger Brian Cassell, Food & Nutrition Director at Oconee Medical Center, in Seneca, SC, shares the story of how they redesigned their cafeteria to make the healthy choice the easy choice. 

Guest blogger Susan Johnson, Health Promotion Director at the Medical University of South Carolina, shares the story of how the City of Charleston created a smoke-free medical district.

Melva Fager Okun, Senior Health Promotion Manager at NC Prevention Partners, shares highlights of a recent trip to Columbia, SC for the annual meeting of the South Carolina Hospital Association. 

 

 

Guest blogger Crystal Cates, Wellness Dietitian from Georgewown Memorial Hospital talks about how they maintain the Gold Apple.

This guest blog comes from Kelly Plaia, Human Resource Manager at Laurens County Health Care System in Clinton, South Carolina.

 

 

 

Guest blogger, Maya Smith, Health Educator for HealthTrack at Greenville Hospital System, talks about implementing wellness programs across a large health system.

 

 

Guest blogger Diane Linne talks about how AnMed Health is removing barriers to wellness.

 

 

 

 

Guest blogger Mark Senn talks about how Beaufort Memorial Hospital applies the three pillars of wellness at his hospital and in the surrounding community.

Kendyl Schultz, from the South Carolina Hospital Association, discusses the upcoming Working Well Fall Meeting, which will be happening in Columbia, SC on Thursday, November 1. 

Guest blogger Stacey Burch describes highlights of a recent Working Well Center of Excellence site visit where Palmetto Health was recognized with the Gold Apple award.  

Guest blogger Holly Mlodzinski shares new wellness opportunities that have emerged at Hilton Head Hospital as part of their participation in the Working Well initiative. 

On July 27, 2012, the Medical University of South Carolina was recognized with the Gold Star as part of the Working Well initiative.  Guest blogger Susan Johnston describes the challenges they had to overcome to achieve this recognition at MUSC.

Guest bloggers from Georgetown Hospital System describe how they increased employees’ opportunities for physical activity over the last year.

Representatives from NC Prevention Partners and several Working Well Centers of Excellence visited Greenville Hospital System and Baptist Easley Hospital in South Carolina this month.  

 

 

NC Prevention Partners welcomes (L-R) Emily Sigmon, Aubrey Delaney, and Allison Glasser to the Hospitals Team.

Our newest guest blogger, Lisa Kopera, introduces you to Greenville Hospital System – one of the Working Well Centers of Excellence. 

Guest blogger Stacey Burch highlights myHealth Rewards program offerings for employees at Palmetto Health, including a health management program, weight loss competitions, and cafeteria changes.

Guest blogger, Kendyl Schultz, Working Well Project Coordinator at the SC Hospital Association, shares her experiences from the American Journal of Health Promotion’s 22nd Annual Arts and Science of Health Promotion Conference in San Diego, California.

Guest blogger Kelly Price describes new programs at Baptist Easley Hospital that are designed to support good nutrition and physical activity among employees.

You’ve done tremendous work to change your policies, rework your food environment, add new benefits, but maybe you feel like your employees are not engaged in wellness. Sometimes the solution is simple. . . .

Guest blogger Lindsay Roper highlights how Laurens County Health Care System is working to maintain its Gold Star and Gold Apple awards, while continuing to reach to new goals.

Guest blogger Mark Senn shares some of the exciting initiatives happening at Beaufort Memorial Hospital during a Working Well Center of Excellence site visit. 

The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has been recognized by the South Carolina Hospital Association and NC Prevention Partners for providing the highest standard of excellence for the healthy food environments offered to employees, patients and visitors. 

Guest blogger Holly Mlodzinski shares highlights of the first Working Well Center of Excellence site visit at Hilton Head Hospital.

Working Well, a collaboration between the SC Hospital Association and NC Prevention Partners, has recognized the hospitals affiliated with Georgetown Hospital System as the first in the nation to meet its Gold Medal standard.  The Gold Medal recognizes hospitals for establishing a culture of wellness where being active is the norm by providing access and opportunity for physical activity during the workday. 

Guest bloggers from Georgetown Hospital System introduce their wellness programs and their journey with the Working Well initiative.

Guest blogger, Jen Wright, from the SC Hospital Association, discusses the successes of the Working Well initiative over the last year and how it’s making a lasting change in the culture of South Carolina hospitals.

The Medical University of South Carolina will become 100% tobacco-free on March 1, 2012.  Guest blogger Susan Johnston describes the process leading up to this monumental cultural change at MUSC.

 

 

The two organizations with funding from The Duke Endowment join forces on the Working Well Project to help all SC hospital employees be tobacco free, eat well, and exercise for healthier and more productive lives.

Guest blogger, Mark Senn, provides an overview of the Employee Wellness Program at Beaufort Memorial Hospital – a Working Well Center of Excellence. 

Guest blogger, Kelly Price – discusses how employee wellness has become a new way of thinking at Baptist Easley Hospital – a Working Well Center of Excellence. 

Guest blogger, Lindsay Roper, discusses the Work 2 Wellness program at Laurens County Health Care Sytem – a Working Well Center of Excellence. 

Working Well, has recognized Georgetown Hospital System as the first system in South Carolina to meet two of its highest awards – the Gold Star and the Gold Apple.

Guest blogger, Anna Fleming, introduces the myHealth Rewards employee wellness program at Palmetto Health – a

 NC Prevention Partners has recognized the Laurens County Health Care System as the first hospital in South Carolina to

 

 meet its Gold Apple standard.

 

  

On Tuesday, October 25th, NC Prevention Partners' Hospital Advisory Team met at the North Carolina Hospital Association in Cary. Administrators and staff from hospitals and other public health leaders gathered to hear about the recent successes of NC Prevention Partners.

 

 

The first meeting of the Working Well Advisory Council met on October 21, 2011 in Columbia, South Carolina.

 

 

 

Guest blogger, Susan Johnson, introduces the Employee Wellness program at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) – a Working Well Center of Excellence. 
 

 

 

 

 

Representatives from eight Centers of Excellence in South Carolina gathered for an inaugural meeting.
 

An upcoming webinar will examine how an educational campaign fits along with other efforts that hospitals are making to increase access and improve policies to motivate employees to be more physically active at work.  

 Baptist Easley Hospital is our second Gold Star Hospital in South Carolina.

The nine Centers of Excellence are Baptist Easley, Beaufort Memorial Hospital, Carolinas Hospital System, Georgetown Hospital System, Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center, Hilton Head Hospital, Laurens County Health Care System, Medical University of South Carolina, and Palmetto Health.

Laurens County Health Care System is 1st to complete all requirements for the Gold Star.

NC Prevention Partners’Prevention Academy brings together business and wellness leaders who are committed to creating healthy workplaces and communities.  Today, representatives from five South Carolina hospitals - Baptist Easley, Clarendon Health System in Manning, Laurens County Health Care System in Clinton, Palmetto Health in Columbia, and Regional Medical Center of Orangeburg & Calhoun Counties – are gathering in Kannapolis, NC with other local wellness leaders to move the needle on effective wellness policies and environments.  Prevention Academy attendees are learning about engaging executive leadership in creating a culture of wellness, building human capacity at their worksites, building financial capacity to support healthy employees, and tracking their...

WNC Hospital Trip with South Carolina hospital representatives and Working Well SC stop at Caldwell Memorial Hospital.

NC Prevention Partners, along with the Working Well SC staff, are touring Ashe Memorial Hospital, Caldwell Memorial Hospital and Grace Hospital today to give South Carolina hospital representatives a glimpse of the Gold Star and Red Apple initiatives in action.