Grand Rounds Thursday June 14

Please plan on attending Grand Rounds Thurs June 14th at 11 a.m. Maguire Bldg 3rd floor Preventive Medicine Library-Maywood campus

Speaker: Howard Bolnick, The Vitality Group

Title: How much can workplace wellness programs really save?

Overview: Workplace wellness programs have become increasingly popular despite large inconsistencies in the analyses of their ability to produce long-term medical care savings. This aim of study is to clarify this situation by estimating potential long-term medical care savings. We combined data from the Global Burden of Disease Study and Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys to estimate the annual savings that could result from lowering risk factors typically managed by workplace wellness programs to their theoretical minimums, which could reduce average annual costs per working age adult by 18.4%.