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Sharp Health Plan Broker Alert!
Health care is local - your health plan can be too.® May 2011
Best Health: Free Wellness Benefits
for Sharp Health Plan Members


Best Health offers comprehensive wellness benefits to help your clients' employees meet their unique health and wellness goals, providing personalization and choice.

Achieving better overall health is the top reason American workers report they participate or would participate in a wellness benefit program.1 Best Health can improve the well-being of your clients' most valuable asset — their employees — and, in turn, improve the performance of the organization overall. In addition to increasing employee engagement, Best Health can help to improve employee morale and productivity, while helping to reduce medical costs for your client.

Best Health wellness benefits include:

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Health Risk Assessment (HRA)
The HRA is an assessment tool that evaluates an employee's current health status. A confidential, personalized report is created that offers recommendations to improve health, establishes a baseline for measuring progress and provides resources based upon individual needs.

Best Health Online
This secure web portal offers employees resources to plan, track and follow their own unique health, fitness and meal plans. With a robust database of recipes, exercise plans and Wellness Workshops (including Nutrition and Life Balance), employees can select the tools that will optimize their health.

One-on-One Health Coaching
At no additional cost, One-on-One Health Coaching is available for those ready to make a change in areas such as weight management, smoking cessation, healthy eating, physical activity and stress management. The multi-week, telephonic Health Coaching program offers personal support designed to meet individual needs.

For more information about these and other free wellness benefits with Sharp Health Plan membership, contact your Account Executive or Account Manager or visit www.SharpHealthPlan.com and click on the Best Health tab.

1 Financial Well-Being Index™ is released by the Principal Financial Group® and conducted by Harris Interactive®


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May Wellness Tips

To Your Health — The topic this month is Women's Health.


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Melissa Hayden Cook, President and CEO
Michael Byrd, Chief Business Development Officer
Rita Datko, Chief Financial Officer
Nora Faine, M.D., Chief Medical Officer
Leslie Pels-Beck, Chief Operations Officer


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