“Has your company won the battle with Employee Wellness?” – Apollo, OMR Health Club for Corporate Leadership

‘Employee Wellness’ as a concept has gained a lot of attention over the last decade. Wellness programs, health screening sessions and regular health check- ups have become mandated HR protocols in several organizations. With corporate productivity being severely scored in line with employee wellness, several companies have redesigned recruitment criteria based on the candidate’s health and habits.

Despite an enormous amount of health awareness data and cost effective initiatives being bombarded at employees, corporates seem to be on the losing side of the battle with increasing healthcare budgets year on year, while employees generously contribute to lead India, in the number of life threatening non communicable diseases (NCD) - diabetes, cancer and cardiac mal function.

In a recent epidemiological survey conducted by Apollo Hospitals, OMR over 60% of those contributing to winning the gold for India in NCDs are within the age bracket of 27 – 35 yrs.

At Apollo Hospitals OMR, we noticed that most health awareness programs and screening sessions leave short lived impact on attendees. The moment deadlines hit, the ‘health gyan’ and enthusiastically set ‘health goals’ become a long forgotten back stage prop.

With a vision to tip health back into work-life balance, Apollo Speciality Hospitals, OMR in tangent with various corporate houses has launched an Apollo Health Club for Corporate Leadership, to reinvent the way employee wellness is being practiced. Understanding the health pulse of the organization through Apollo hospitals in depth health audits would mark the foundation stone of this Initiative. The Corporate Care Initiative would design departmentalized wellness strategies to improve health initiative outcomes and enhance the often overlooked factor in appraisals – the HQ (Health Quotient). The Apollo, OMR Corporate Care Initiative shall encompass Preventive Health Care Strategies, ‘with a nip it in the bud’ approach to disease management, to help organizations, employees and their families, decrease healthcare costs, reduce sickness rates, increase productivity. Launched on the 23^rd of August 2015, Apollo Hospitals, OMR’s Corporate Care Initiative is marching with an ambitious goal to make corporate campuses in South Chennai cancer and epidemic free zones by 2020. 

To add to the glamour of ‘Employee Wellness’ protocols, Apollo Hospitals, OMR has announced the prestigious Apollo Corporate Health Award ceremony to award in an attempt to recognize and share best practices adopted by various corporate house in healthcare management. Senior Management from various organization in South Chennai are welcome to join the Apollo Health Club for Corporate Leadership and nominate their organization for this prestigious event.

Apollo, OMR’s corporate care initiative is to reverberate and echo our beloved Chairman, Dr. P.C Reddy’s statement, “Life is Priceless, Live Healthy India.”