2024 Inductees
April 16, 2024
Healthiest Employers® was started in 2009 as a way to celebrate companies that are putting their people first by investing in the health of their employees. The awards program started in Indianapolis and quickly scaled its reach across the United States.
Healthiest Employers’ co-founders, Rod Reasen and Phil Daniels, recognized a shift in how healthcare was delivered coupled with the need for employers to take a more prominent role in supporting their employees’ health and fighting back against rising health costs. A lot has changed since 2009, but one thing remains the same – Healthiest Employers continues to highlight the best and brightest in employee health and well-being.
For the past decade, our team has celebrated the Healthiest 100™ Workplaces in America as part of our national awards program, administered by Springbuk. This program honors the “best of the best” in corporate health and wellness. Every fall, the list is published announcing the top 100 companies that placed across all regions, locations, and company sizes.
In 2022, we began our Healthiest Employers Hall of Fame. Inductees regularly demonstrate an ongoing commitment to their employees by regularly modifying and altering programs to best fit their populations’ needs. Last year, 20 companies were inducted into the Healthiest Employers Hall of Fame.
The following organizations will add their name to this prestigious list.
AdventHealth
Headquarters: Maitland, Florida
Employee Count: 83,000
Industry: Healthcare/Hospitals
About: AdventHealth is one of the nation's largest not-for-profit healthcare providers, known worldwide for their expert, compassionate, and individualized care.
Employees at AdventHealth are responsible for caring for over 1,000,000 patients each year across all locations. Their Employee Health and Well-Being Team is responsible for the 83,000+ employees across all locations and works to ensure that everyone’s health journey allows them to be the best versions of themself. A main component of their employee wellness program is a philosophy that is centered around “CREATION Life” – Choice, Rest, Environment, Activity, Trust, Interpersonal Relationships, Outlook, and Nutrition. These principles are the guiding foundation for all employees at AdventHealth and are instilled into new team members on day one.
Each month, they offer a live-virtual “Mental Health Matters” education series that focuses on the importance of caring for team members’ mental well-being and reducing the stigma around mental health. Since starting the program in 2020, 3,381 team members have attended these critical sessions, resulting in 94% of participants agreeing that the Mental Health Matters sessions have been effective in providing them with strategies to improve their mental well-being. Sessions have also been effective in building a supportive community, helping team members understand they are not alone in their struggles.
Healthiest 100 Recognition: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
American Express
Headquarters: New York, New York
Employee Count: 25,727
Industry: Financial Services
About: Since 1850, American Express has worked to make a difference in customers' lives in ways that matter most to them. Their goal is to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. We aim to exceed our customers’ expectations by always finding new ways to enrich their lives, to make their businesses more successful, and to help them achieve their aspirations. American Express is continually recognized as a great place to work because they encourage colleagues to bring their ideas and their true selves to work every day to help positively transform the lives of customers, communities, and colleagues.
One impactful benefit at American Express is their “Amex Flex” hybrid work models. This model allows greater flexibility for colleagues while preserving the important benefits of an in-person culture. 91% of employees surveyed are satisfied with Amex Flex and 87% said they feel supported in their career development opportunities.
Healthiest 100 Recognition: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
City of Acworth
Headquarters: Acworth, Georgia
Employee Count: 174
Industry: Government/Municipalities
About: The City of Acworth is a full-service municipality providing general government, public safety, recreation, public works, solid waste sanitation, electrical power, economic development, and other services. Acworth is located in the northwest corner of Cobb County; approximately 30 miles northwest of Atlanta.
The City of Acworth now offers flexible work schedules to employees, an extremely rare opportunity for most government employees. On top of this, they offer a four-day workweek, providing more time off for employees to spend at home with family. As a result of implementing a flexible work schedule for all employees throughout the organization, they have seen a reduction in sick leave usage and an increase in productivity throughout the organization as a whole. Employees are happier and more willing to come to work every day.
Healthiest 100 Recognition: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
City of Charlotte
Headquarters: Charlotte, North Carolina
Employee Count: 8,000
Industry: Government/Municipalities
About: The City of Charlotte operates under a council-manager form of government. The Mayor and City Council are responsible for making policy decisions for the community and providing vision and leadership to the organization. The City employs a diverse workforce, all ultimately tasked with creating community through the jobs that they do.
Given the landscape of the past few years, the City saw the impact the lack of life planning was having on employees and their families. Many employees did not have beneficiaries or an end-of-life plan in place, causing significant stress on loved ones. They created a program called “Get your Ducks in a Row,” a multi-layered program focused on the importance of life insurance, estate planning, account password/code sharing, and conversations with family members on these important topics. Employees have greater peace of mind knowing their families will be taken care of. At the end of the program, employees also received waterproof/fireproof lockboxes and other resources to help implement the program into their lives.
One employee shared, “My 54-year-old brother passed in 2020 with no will, divorced, and two teenage children at home. I am still working to settle his estate two and a half years later. This information is so important and these sessions should be required!”
Healthiest 100 Recognition: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Jamestown Board of Public Utilities
Headquarters: Jamestown, New York
Employee Count: 150
Industry: Utilities
About: The Jamestown Board of Public Utilities (BPU) is a municipal utility that provides electric, water, sewer, district heat, and solid waste/sanitation services to the residents within the City of Jamestown, New York and surrounding areas.
Jamestown BPU believes that it is important to provide health and wellness programs for not only employees but retirees and employee families also. All individuals on the health plan are given the opportunity to earn annual incentives.
Additionally, four team members recently received Mental Health First Aid certifications to lead meetings and help support teammates who may be having a difficult time.
Healthiest 100 Recognition: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Permanente Dental Associates, P.C.
Headquarters: Portland, Oregon
Employee Count: 133
Industry: Healthcare/Clinics/Wellness Services
About: Permanente Dental Associates, P.C. is a northwest-based, dentist-owned multidisciplinary group practice that contracts with Kaiser Permanente Health Plan of the Northwest to provide integrated oral healthcare for more than 290,000 Kaiser Permanente Dental members–90% of which are also medical members.
Permanente Dental’s dentists are naturally passionate about health and wellness. Every year their health analytics data reinforces this truth with proven lower-than-national (and regional) averages for a myriad of chronic conditions including prevalence of diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.
Additionally, they have 20% lower obesity rates on a national level and their wellness program strives to provide inclusive, approachable programming centered around individual wellness.
Healthiest 100 Recognition: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023
Samaritan Health Services
Headquarters: Corvallis, Oregon
Employee Count: 5,452
Industry: Healthcare/Clinics/Wellness Services
About: Samaritan Health Services is a non-profit integrated healthcare system of hospitals, physician clinics, and health services caring for the communities of the Mid-Willamette Valley and Central Oregon Coast. Their workplace wellness program is designed to serve the mission of “Building Healthier Communities Together: starting with employees.”
Samaritan is constantly working to break the stigma surrounding mental health by creating an alliance with the Benefits, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Behavioral Health departments. Due to the high variety and levels of personalization, Samaritan Health reports a 70% engagement rate, with over 90% of employees reporting high job satisfaction.
Healthiest 100 Recognition: 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023
Please follow the links below for information on the former winners:
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