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| Gem Plumbing & Heating is Awarded the Welcoa 2007 Gold Level Well Workplace Award |
April 1, 2007 – Lincoln, RI - Gem Plumbing & Heating was recently awarded the Welcoa 2007 Gold Level Workplace Wellness Award and helped the State of Rhode Island become the first “Well State” in the nation. “We are honored to have received this award and are well on our way to a healthier company and a healthier Rhode Island”, said Anthony Gemma, President of Gem Plumbing, who has been advocating for change in Rhode Island’s healthcare system since 2003.
“Because the costs of healthcare in Rhode Island continue to skyrocket, we need to take action and work toward a healthier workplace. Last year, our healthcare costs rose by nearly 45%. Businesses both large and small are suffering the pain of rising healthcare costs and in order to get these costs under control, we as business owners/managers need to recognize that wellness matters”, said Gemma.
For the past 15 years, Welcoa’s vision of improved national health has found its roots in worksite health promotion. Through the implementation of its Well Workplace process into hundreds of organizations all across America, Welcoa’s vision of a healthier America is beginning to take shape. As an initiative that clearly establishes benchmarks for building healthier working environments, the Welcoa Well Workplace initiative, along with a growing body of evidence demonstrating the efficacy of workplace wellness programs, is beginning to generate interest.
The fact is that 203 million people over the age of 16, more that 136 million, are employed in the US workforce. This, in and of itself, is a good reason for using work as a medium for promoting a healthier lifestyle. Today, the average workweek has grown to nearly 50 hours. The typical employee now works the equivalent of one extra month per year as compared to his or her counterpart in 1970. More than one third of Americans are now working over 10 hours per day and thirty-nine percent are working on the weekends.
The Well Workplace Awards initiative is designed to help organizations improve the health of their employees, and in so doing, reduce unnecessary health care expenditures. In short, Well Workplaces are meant to be better places to work. Because healthy living is incorporated into the very fabric of an organization’s culture, and because employees are empowered to take control of their own personal health, Well Workplaces have happier, healthier, and more productive employees.
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Contact: Rebecca Gamage
Telephone # 401-459-4819
Fax #: 401-528-1976
Email: rgamage@gemplumbing.com
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