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Group of 100+ Top Minnesota CEOs Support Employer Leadership Summit

Posted on: Wednesday, 30 May 2007, 09:00 CDT

The Minnesota Business Partnership announced its role as a supporting organization of the inaugural Buyers Health Care Action Group (BHCAG) Employer Leadership Summit, Health Living Healthy Working Series -- Employers Helping Employees to Better Health. The Partnership joins the Minnesota Governor's Office, Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement, Minnesota Council of Health Plans, Disability Management Employer Coalition, Minnesota Pharmacists Association and others in supporting this educational event, to be held June 21, 2007 from 8:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Park Plaza Hotel Bloomington, Bloomington, Minn.

Summit attendees will learn from industry experts what works and what doesn't when developing and implementing health and performance improvement programs. Companies who will present their employee-centered strategies and evidence-based best practices include Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Carlson Companies, Employers Association, Inc., Hawaii Business Health Council, HealthPartners, Lincoln Industries, Medica, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and WellPoint, Inc.

Actionable learning includes the fundamentals of health and performance improvement (HPI) -- how to: impact employee health and job satisfaction to yield organization-wide results; receive the full benefit of value-based benefit design; understand the Governor's "Fit Workplaces" initiative; conduct an effective workforce HPI assessment and gap analysis; identify the critical elements and steps required to design and implement an HPI strategic plan; advocate for a more accountable health care system, higher quality of care, enhanced efficiencies and incentives and opportunities for all stakeholders; and identify the critical success factors that drive healthy living, healthy working and healthy performance outcomes (organizational success) that increase value for companies and employees.

The Summit is sponsored in part by Healthways, Inc., Mercer Health & Benefits, Pfizer, Inc. and sanofi-aventis.

Learn more about this event and its supporting organizations at www.bhcag.com and www.HealthAndPerformance.info.


Source: Business Wire

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