- Fairfax County Launches Wellness Challenge
Fairfax County in Virginia recently launched a friendly competition through Shape Up The Nation for all employees. Watch this video of the County Board of Supervisors discussing their teams and plans to pursue healthy lifestyles.
- Cleveland Clinic Sets Healthy Example
Shape Up The Nation client Cleveland Clinic is featured in this CNN story about its efforts to promote wellness internally and in the community.
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The clinic staff tries to set an example: Yoga classes on the roof; exercise facilities; healthier choices in both the staff and public cafeteria; walking routes in the halls and on the grounds; a policy that forbids hiring smokers. So far, CEO Dr. Toby Cosgrove says the staff has lost a combined 75,000 pounds — an emphasis on wellness that he says will without a doubt lower the hospital's own health care costs. “Seventy percent of the cost in health care is from chronic disease,” Cosgrove told us in an interview at his Cleveland Clinic office. “And chronic diseases come from really three big things — from obesity, from lack of exercise and from smoking. And it also results in 40 percent of the premature deaths in the United States. So we have to do something as a nation to begin to deal with all those.”
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- Study Proves Impact of Shaping Up Together
A new clinical study on our Shape Up wellness program was published in the May issue of the respected journal Obesity. The paper focuses on weight loss outcomes and exercise levels achieved by nearly 5,000 participants in our team-based intervention.
Research studies dating back to the early 1980s have consistently demonstrated both the cost–effectiveness and the significant weight loss outcomes of workplace-based wellness competitions. Our new research builds on this body of work by showing that such interventions are effective and scalable via the Internet across large populations.
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- Shaping Up at Texas Health Resources
Texas Health Resources, the largest health care system in North Texas, recently partnered with Shape Up The Nation to design a custom-branded wellness program called Shape Up Texas Health (www.shapeuptexashealth.org). Their efforts to promote employee wellness, and resulting successes, were featured in this television report.
- Losers Become Winners at Clarian Health
Shape Up The Nation client Clarian Health, Indiana's most comprehensive health center and one of the busiest hospital systems in the nation, was featured in the Indianpolis Star in an article about companies using peer-to-peer engagement and wellness contests to spur behavior change.
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Excerpt from the article:
“Sometimes, just the competition can help motivate people. Clarian Health contracted with Shape Up The Nation, a national firm that organizes team–based wellness competitions, to create a 12–week program that ended in April. A total of 1,314 workers registered and reported daily online at www.shapeupthenation.com in contests tracking weight loss, exercise minutes and pedometer steps. Results piled up: 3,605 pounds lost, nearly 1.3 million exercise minutes and 184,171 miles on pedometers. “It went over well with our population, and our numbers indicate it,” said Emily Bubb, Clarian human resources official. For some people, wellness challenges can intensify their own efforts and cement habits that last long after contests end.”
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- Gordian Health Solutions Joins Forces With Shape Up The Nation To Provide Workplace Team Wellness Competitions
With the shared goal of promoting healthier living and achieving lower healthcare costs, Nashville-based Gordian Health Solutions, Inc., a leading national personal health coaching company, and Shape Up The Nation , a leading wellness social networking company, have joined forces to provide team wellness competitions at workplaces across the country. Shape Up The Nation organizes team-based exercise, weight loss and walking competitions for individuals of all fitness levels, targeting employee obesity and inactivity.
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- Shape Up Client Featured In The News
Eisenhower Medical Center, named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals, was featured in this television story about its commitment to employee wellness through participation in Shape Up The Nation.
