Our Corporate Programs

Corporate Program

ILWM offers robust corporate programs to address the needs of employers and employees.
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• Designed for any employee who wants to become a more productive member of a company, the ILWM Corporate Programs provide cost-effective options and services tailored to the corporate lifestyle. Companies interested in the health of their employees or rising healthcare costs can sponsor, subsidize, or simply make the programs available to their employees.
• By helping employees change their behavior patterns and live healthier lifestyles, ILWM corporate programs can lower companies' health care expenditures while positively impacting worker productivity. Health care expenditures can decrease due to reduced insurance premiums, reduced absenteeism, reduced medication costs, reduced turnover rates, reduced workers’ compensation claims, reduced tardiness, shorter hospital stays, etc.
• While our approach is grounded in prevention and good health promotion, we place a specific focus on supporting companies with higher percentages of overweight or diabetic patients. Our corporate programs focus on the integration of ILWM healthcare & fitness services and the development of employee educational and fitness programs. All ILWM programs are designed to positively impact the cost, quality, outcomes and satisfaction levels of an organization's employee health benefits program.
• ILWM currently offers three primary service lines within the ILWM Corporate Wellness Program
  • 90-Day SMART Program with Gold’s transition
  • Change for Good Corporate Program with Health Advocate
  • Corporate Conditioning Program: On-Site Consulting and Wellness Program
• ILWM Corporate Programs may be made available to employees in several ways:
  • Programs may be funded by employer and are made available to the employees as a free benefit
  • Programs may be partially subsidized by employer and made available to the employees, who are responsible for paying for a portion
  • Programs may be made available to the employees at a discounted rate as a no-cost (to the employer) benefit, and the employees are responsible for the cost
• Employees may use their Flexible Spending Account or Medical Savings Account money to pay for ILWM programs if they are overweight (BMI of 25-29.9) with a co-morbid condition (such as back pain, diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, etc.) or obese (BMI of 30+) with or without a co-morbidity.
  • In Revenue Ruling 2002-19, the Internal Revenue Service stated in April of 2002 that, "Obesity is medically accepted to be a disease in its own right," ruling that, "Uncompensated amounts paid by individuals for participation in a weight-loss program as treatment for a specific disease or diseases (including obesity) diagnosed by a physician are expenses for medical care that are deductible under § 213, subject to the limitations of that section."
• ILWM can deliver Lunch and Learns, talks, health fairs, or other interactions with employees to implement ILWM programs on site.
  • ILWM can also provide educational and marketing collateral for the corporation to use in internal promotions.

90-Day Supervised Medically-Assisted Rapid Transformation (SMART) Program with Gold’s transition

ILWM’s unique 90-Day SMART Program provides a quick and easy-to-follow roadmap to good health.

The 90-Day SMART Program is conducted either on your work site or at the ILWM campus and includes:

• Individual medical evaluations (conducted at the ILWM campus)
• Weekly group behavioral skill-building classes lasting 1.5 hours each.
  • The lessons introduce employees to the most effective weight loss strategies and skills needed to successfully make lifestyle changes.
• Group physical activity classes (once a week) led by a ILWM-certified trainer.
  • Specifically designed for weight loss participants, these classes help burn calories, increase strength, and improve conditioning.
• A membership to ILWM Fitness Center is included for the duration of the program, allowing unlimited access to additional exercise classes and use of our state-of-the-art fitness facilities.
• Personalized diet and nutrition guidance based on a one-hour consultation with ILWM registered and licensed dietitians that assesses employees individual eating habits, nutrition goals, and challenges.
• Three 30-minute follow-up nutritional sessions teach employees ways to reshape those habits, plus tips for dining out, eating on the run, snacking, and meal planning.
• Cooking classes and dietitian-led grocery store tours provide additional knowledge for making healthy food choices.

If desired, during the last two weeks of the 90-Day SMART Program, ILWM trainers will help transition those employees from the 90-Day SMART Program to a Gold’s Gym or an ILWM Change for Good membership (membership fees not included).

Change for Good Corporate Program with Health Advocate

• A business-centric version of our flagship Change for Good Program (CFG), the Change for Good Corporate Program with Health Advocate is ideal for employees who live or work in the Triangle area. It provides all of the strengths of the standard CFG program, but adds the services of a Health Advocate.
• The increasing complexity of the health-care system can make it hard even for informed patients to ensure that the system will benefit them. Health Advocates (HA) work on patients' behalf, using their health-care expertise to promote the best interests of patients.
• ILWM Health Advocates work with members, but for employers.
• The HA can help the member take advantage of their health insurance by reviewing the members’ Explanation of Benefits (EOB) and counseling the member on navigating the health insurance minefield to receive maximum reimbursement. The HA will also help the member save healthcare dollars both for the member and the employer. Health advocates also function to assist your employees in:
  • Receiving the best possible health care
  • Taking maximum advantage of their health plan by maximizing reimbursement
  • Solving health- and coverage-related issues
  • Getting more from healthcare providers by arming employees with the proper questions and suggesting potential alternatives to ask doctors about
  • Focusing on wellness and health in addition to provider and health plan behavior
  • Achieving positive clinical outcomes
  • Reducing costs to employers and employees alike
  • Providing patient education
• Conducted at the Institute, the Change for Good Corporate Program takes full advantage of the Institute’s staff and fitness center, cooking and multimedia classrooms, and medical facilities.
• ILWM HA can make ILWM’s programs more affordable and increase program value by helping members receive the maximum benefits from their health plans, usually by navigating through the torturous healthcare system and receiving optimal reimbursements.
• HA meets weekly for peer review of difficult cases to discuss methods of resolving the problem, or to demonstrate how a solution was obtained. The HA keeps abreast of health and managed care trends by monitoring on-line and print publications that provide information on various topics from government regulations to pharmaceutical research, and consults a proprietary database that supports the HA.
• ILWM in turn provides employers with Quarterly Utilization Reports. This report gives a comprehensive view of the support requests by the companies’ employees with useful demographic and categorical breakdowns. It helps pinpoint systemic issues and track changes from quarter to quarter and provide root-cause analysis for network access and claims problems.
• ILWM also provides Program Satisfaction Data. The employer receives satisfaction data detailing employees’ ratings of our service on a number of parameters. These surveys help the employer gauge whether the HA assistance is saving time, whether their intervention is effective, and is a valuable benefit to offer.

'Corporate Conditioning' Onsite Consulting and Wellness Program

• ILWM can conduct a site analysis and present recommendations on how your company can present a working environment that is conducive to good employee health.
• ILWM’s consultants perform site visits to examine facilities, resources, and policies in order to establish a baseline. The team will then develop a plan of action for improving the work environment by modifying current facilities, practices, and policies, and by implementing onsite wellness and weight-loss programs.
• For example, the ILWM team may recommend that the vending machines be stocked with healthy snack and drink alternatives, an employee exercise program be implemented on site, or employee health education programs be adopted.
• ILWM can then implement and conduct onsite programs.
  Program Options:
  • Nutrition counseling and education: Classes on elements of portion control, eating out and on the go, healthy food choices, maintaining a food diary, adopting a reduced calorie diet, basics of nutrition
  • Exercise Training: On site group exercise classes (large and small groups), personal training (depending on onsite equipment), educational classes
  • Wellness Counseling: Stress management, time management, and smoking cessation classes and programs
  • Corporate wellness program implementation
  • Health educators and health fairs (workshops & counseling)
  • Family-based programs designed to promote at-home wellness and family health
  • Ad Hoc programs: Custom-designed programs that meet the unique needs of an organization.

How to Get Started

• ILWM’s programs are an investment not only in your employees’ health, but in the financial health of your company.
• If you feel that you or your employees need to lose weight and get healthy and would like to find out more about this opportunity contact us.
• We can discuss the Institute’s programs and services and how our teams can work together to realize your short- and long-term goals.