Not everyone works at a health club like myself. So, I started wondering what companies were rated the “healthiest companies in America?” Scan the list of companies that won the award for 2008. You might be amazed at which companies DIDN’T make the list!
- Alpine Bank (CO)
- American Financial Group (OH)
- American Marazzi (TX)
- Bison Gear & Engineering Corp. (IL)
- Brook Furniture Rental, Inc. (IL)
- Brookwood School District 167 (IL)
- Cantigny Foundation (IL)
- Cardinal FG (WI)
- Center Cass School District 66 (IL)
- Charleston Cusd #1(IL)
- Chicago Board Of Options Exchange (IL)
- Chicago Fire Fighters – Local 2 (IL)
- City Of Batavia, IL (IL)
- City Of Cozad (NE)
- City Of Manitowoc (WI)
- Clausen Miller P.C. (IL)
- Cleveland Group, Inc. (GA)
- CNIC Health Solutions (CO)
- Colorado Capital Bank (CO)
- Culver Franchising System, Inc. (WI)
- Cummins-Allison Corporation (IL)
- Curran Group, Inc. (IL)
- Danville Area Community College (IL)
- Dearborn County Government (IN)
- DLR Group (NE)
- Emergency Medical Association of N.J., P.A. (NJ)
- Enterprise Community Partners (MD)
- Farm Progress Companies (IL)
- Fraternal Order Of Police (IL)
- Freeborn & Peters LLP (IL)
- Gallatin Steel (KY)
- GBAR Limited Partnership (IL)
- GEA WestfaliaSurge, Inc. (IL)
- Georgia Baptist Convention (GA)
- Gold Eagle (IL)
- Green County Wisconsin (WI)
- Group & Pension Administrators (TX)
- Halo-Lee Wayne (IL)
- Hilltop Community Resources, Inc. (CO)
- Holly Hunt Enterprises (IL)
- Hufcor (WI)
- Humility of Mary Health Partners (OH)
- Huse, Inc. (IN)
- Illinois Valley Community College (IL)
- Infogix, Inc. (IL)
- Interactive Health Solutions, Inc. (IL)
- James G. Davis Construction Corp. (MD)
- Jenner & Block (IL)
- K & L Gates LLP (IL)
- Kcumb (MO)
- Kenton County (KY)
- Kirkland & Ellis LLP (IL)
- Marilyn Hickey Ministries (CO)
- MB Financial Bank (IL)
- McDermott, Will & Emery (IL)
- Mercy Health Partners (OH)
- Mesa County Valley School District 51 (CO)
- Midmark (OH)
- Midwest Palliative & Hospice Care Center (IL)
- Morris Elementary School District 54 (IL)
- Morton Grove Pharmaceuticals (IL)
- Nature’s Sunshine Products, Inc. (UT)
- Navy Army Federal Credit Union (TX)
- North Shore School District 112 (IL)
- Northshore Bank (WI)
- Novaspect, Inc. (IL)
- Old Second National Bank (IL)
- Quantum Corporation (IL)
- Rapid Displays (IL)
- Rauland-Borg (IL)
- Rend Lake College (IL)
- Return Path, Inc. (CO)
- RMSCO, INC. (NY)
- Robinson Engineering (IL)
- RSUI Group, Inc. (GA)
- Security First/Stockmen’s Financial (SD)
- Shepherds Baptist Ministries, Inc. (WI)
- Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal (IL)
- Southwestern Illinois College (IL)
- Spoon River College (IL)
- Sycamore School District 427 (IL)
- Synovate (IL)
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America (IL)
- The Midland Company (OH)
- Tri-County Schools Insurance Group (CA)
- Troy City School District (OH)
- Unibilt Industries Inc. (OH)
- UniGroup (MO)
- Virchow Krause (WI)
- Waubonsee Community College (IL)
- WILD Flavors, Inc. (KY)
- Wittenberg University (OH)
Winners of the award are those companies who have measurably reduced their overall IHI score as determined by their score from the previous years. Winners are chosen by categories:
To assess individual and company-wide health, IHS employs a proprietary metric called the ‘Interactive Health Index’ (IHI). The Index, developed in conjunction with physicians and other healthcare professionals, tests for indicators of heart disease, diabetes, smoking and other measures of health status that are at least in part controllable by the individual.
Every participating employee is rated on an individual IHI via an annual Health Evaluation at the start of the IHS preventative program. Throughout the year, the employee takes a variety of steps – with the help of IHS – to address specific goals and any identified health conditions.
At year-end, IHS calculates an employee aggregate IHI ‘score’ for the company as a whole. Based on this score, companies are selected as one of the Healthiest Companies in America in the various Award categories (source).
Its hard to know which companies are involved in this kind of evaluation of their workers. However, I was shocked to see that I didn’t recognize ANY of these companies. Even huge establishments didn’t make the list. If your company did make the “cut” write in and let us know!
AKA
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