The American Cancer Society, during its national Corporate Impact Conference in Minneapolis, Minn., June 9-10, will recognize The Children’s Hospital as the recipient of the national Corporate Impact Award: Excellence in Cancer Control.
The Children’s Hospital was ranked among the top five nationally in the U.S. News & World Report 2011-12 edition of Best Children’s Hospitals. The facility will receive the American Cancer Society’s Excellence in Cancer Control Award for providing health information, programs and benefits that address specific cancer prevention behaviors, and for tracking and reporting on employee health, participation and outcomes.
Reflective of American Cancer Society guidelines on nutrition and physical activity and its goals for tobacco use reduction, The Children’s Hospital offers numerous related benefits to its employees.
Among The Children’s Hospital-provided healthy lifestyle benefits are: membership in a Denver-area Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Hospital Forum, in which local professionals meet to discuss related business policies and issues; Weight Watcher programs and other nutrition and weight loss counseling; hospital cafeteria healthy alternative menu options; information on reading food labels and healthy grocery store choices; on-site yoga; and on-site locker rooms/showers for bicycle-commuting employees.
Employee cancer screening benefits include 100 percent health insurance cost coverage for all preventive care screenings, including those for early cancer detection; free, on-site biometric screening services; mobile mammography testing service; regular employee communications for all offered screening opportunities; wellness coach access, accepted by 72 percent of hospital employees; coverage for cost of cancer vaccines; and online links to American Cancer Society and other health organization information.
Clinical trials benefits range from health insurance coverage at a cost-sharing level that does not present a financial challenge to employees; a guarantee that clinical trial participation does not disqualify employees from other health insurance benefits available to non-trial-participating employees; and to complete employee access to quality regional cancer treatment facilities.
Employees and their family members receive free tobacco cessation products and services, including the American Cancer Society Quit For Life® Program, operated and managed by Alere Wellbeing. Additionally, a cost-incentive program requires employees to self-disclose tobacco usage and be assessed a $50 per month fee – refundable, along with employee-paid premiums, upon completion of any tobacco cessation program.
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| Lana Yoder Dale, Director of Corporate & Community Relations for The Children's Hospital in Denver |
“Two-thirds of all cancers can be prevented through healthy lifestyle choices,” says American Cancer Society Great West Division CEO Chuck DeGooyer. “By investing in model workplace wellness practices, The Children’s Hospital is saving lives of their employees as well as saving the lives of their patients.”
The Children’s Hospital’s Excellence in Cancer Control Award is one of six American Cancer Society Corporate Impact Awards Series honors bestowed in recognition of employers’ engagement in targeted efforts to significantly impact cancer’s effect on the workplace, where disease-related expenditures and lost productivity costs annually approach $264 billion. As well, the awards series annually addresses companies’ responsible community involvement, encouragement of employee engagement in the cancer fight, and contributions that embolden the American Cancer Society’s vision of a world with less cancer and more birthdays.
“This award means a great deal to us and we are proud to accept it as a symbol of our commitment to the phenomenal employees that work at Children’s,” said Jim Shmerling, president and CEO of The Children’s Hospital. “We thank our partners at the American Cancer Society for recognizing essential cancer prevention strategies. When it comes to cancer, we must not only take care of others, but take care of ourselves, if we are to see a brighter future for all.”
The Impact Awards’ presentation venue, the Society’s Corporate Impact Conference, will host company practitioners from across the nation to address strategies targeting the reduction of cancer’s cost within the workplace and the creation of a healthier, more productive employee base that results in increased morale and personal engagement in the fight against the disease.
The Corporate Impact Awards are presented annually on behalf of the Society’s Corporate & Systems Initiative, an effort which creates meaningful, long-term relationships with corporations and employers of all sizes by engaging them in delivery of the Society’s lifesaving mission and support for its numerous programs and services. The Corporate & Systems Initiative helps companies implement scientifically-sound, comprehensive health and wellness programs and provides information and high-quality support for cancer screening and care to help people stay well and get well.
The American Cancer Society combines an unyielding passion with nearly a century of experience to save lives and end suffering from cancer. As a global grassroots force of more than three million volunteers, we fight for every birthday threatened by every cancer in every community. We save lives by helping people stay well by preventing cancer or detecting it early; helping people get well by being there for them during and after a cancer diagnosis; by finding cures through investment in groundbreaking discovery; and by fighting back by rallying lawmakers to pass laws to defeat cancer and by rallying communities worldwide to join the fight. As the nation’s largest non-governmental investor in cancer research, contributing more than $3.4 billion, we turn what we know about cancer into what we do. As a result, more than 11 million people in America
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