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“There are few things which are appreciated more in their absence and less in their presence than health. When we have it, we take it for granted, giving little care to its preservation When we do not have it, there is precious little we would not do to get it back.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Executive Health Service Overview

Executive lifestyles frequently include high amounts of travel, lots of entertaining, little personal time for exercise and a combination of high stress and long hours. These factors place key executives at significantly increased health risk.

The unexpected loss of even a single key executive can cost a business thousands of dollars in lost productivity, complications of turn-over, and loss of corporate knowledge. Executive placement firms have estimated these costs to be 150% of the lost executive’s salary. Studies show that 70% of the burden of illness and its associated costs are due to preventable conditions. Companies who haven’t implemented executive health services and employee wellness through targeted corporate health and wellness programming experience unanticipated and avoidable cost.

Excess Health Care Costs
A study conducted by the independent Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO) evaluated the association between modifiable risk factors and medical expenditures.

*Many individuals have multiple risk factors. This represents the excess spending associated with an employee who has 2 or more risk factors. For individuals with 6 or more risk factors, health care costs increase to as much as 8 times that of people without health risks.

Source: Summex Health Management (2005)

The solution is to implement annual screening for key executives to include comprehensive health assessment with effective feedback to both the individual and the business. “An annual health assessment seems to be the most defensible health benefit because it can find health problems that, if undetected, could result in an executive’s illness or death and derail a company, at least temporarily” (Dr. Steven Masley, medical director of Carillon Executive Health). Due to the amount of time spent in the workplace, this is one of the most effective environments to encourage healthy lifestyles and employee wellness . The goal is to identify people who are relatively healthy but at risk for developing serious and costly conditions through corporate health and wellness programming and by isolating specific health risks. Executives who are overweight but don’t yet have diabetes, individuals who have unrecognized high blood pressure but haven’t exhibited end organ disease yet, or those who have high cholesterol but haven’t developed heart disease represent a major opportunity for savings. For businesses, catching even a few health risks before they develop into serious health conditions can result in significant savings for the business as well as enhanced quality of life for the individual. Reducing just one health risk factor in an individual with multiple health risk factors can result in significant health care savings.