Today's companies must maintain optimum productivity and profitability to achieve success. But when employees are absent due to chronic or acute illnesses, insurance premiums continue to skyrocket and company morale plummets. It can be a challenge just to stay in business.

Fitness Bootcamp Training Groups' Innovative Corporate Wellness Program, individualizes optimal health plans for employees, reduces absenteeism, and decreases catastrophic illness', therefore preventing increases in health insurance premiums.

Corporate Wellness Program Benefits

Unlike other wellness programs that require drastic lifestyle changes that employees eventually abandon, the Fitness Bootcamp program is a six week program that incorporates nutrition, exercise, and health evaluations to monitor employees progress. This results in increase overall health and monetary savings.

Healthy employees create a healthy workplace and a healthy bottom line.

Startling Statistics

Startling statistics showing an upward trend that is unlikely to slow:

• In 2006, health premiums increased an average of 12%.
  Firms with between 3 and 24 workers reported the biggest percent of change in health costs, 13.6%.
• The average health care coverage per active employee totaled $7,308, up $742 from 2005.
• Total U.S. health care expenditures are projected to increase from $1.76 trillion in 2005 to $2.7 trillion in 2010, with annual increases averaging 6.8%.
• Health care costs in the United States exceeded 15% of the gross domestic product in 2006 and are expected to soar to 18% by 2010.
• Prescription drug costs have increased more than 10% every year since 1995, surging 14% in 2005.
• 10.5% of the average payroll costs go toward health insurance.
• Family premiums in employer-sponsored plans jumped to 11.2% in 2005 marking the fourth year of double-digit growth.
• A family of four paid more than $10,000 a year for a preferred provider organization (PPO) in 2005.
• The average annual premium for single coverage rose 9.2%, to $3,383.
• Out-of-pocket expense for singles and families rose 9.8%, to $558 and 10.3%, to $2,661, respectively.
• 56% of firms sought new plans, 31% changed carriers and 34% switched the type of plan offered in 2006.
• Due to rising costs, 5 million less workers were covered for health insurance by their employees in 2006.
• Lifetime medical costs average about $225,000 per person.
• The Health Care Financing Administration projected that health care spending would grow faster than the rest of the economy.
  

And now the good news!

• Each dollar invested in preventive health services saves $3.48 in health care costs and $5.82 in losses due to absenteeism.
• Companies with prevention programs have seen an average of 28 percent less sick leave taken, 26 percent less direct health care costs and a 30 percent reduction in workers compensation and disability costs.
• Costs 7 to 9% less to cover health care costs for employees participating in a wellness program than for those who do not
• With the fitness bootcamp wellness program, health claims and absenteeism begin to drop within 4 to 6 months of implementation
• 80% of illness and disease is preventable
  Proper nutrition and exercise have been shown to increase brain activity and enhance alertness, concentration and memory. This means greater creativity, productivity and reliability and fewer costly mistakes!
• People who exercise and eat healthy tend to have fewer doctor visits, saving employers money.