GE CitizenshipEngaging Employees in Early Health
In seeking to further engage employees in its goal of Early Health, GE Healthcare will be releasing an ongoing program of employee Early Health initiatives under the banner of My Early Health.
Early Health is one deliverable of GE Healthcare’s Healthcare Re-imagined vision, whereby its work with healthcare partners helps them predict, diagnose, inform and treat like never before, so patients can experience Early Health — a holistic transformation that focuses on early prevention as opposed to late diagnosis.
By increasing employees awareness of My Early Health, GE Healthcare aims to get its people thinking about their own lives and their own health, and change the way they live today to give them better health and longer lives.
Globally, GE Healthcare has held a number of employee health days, such as a Breast Cancer Awareness day held in Buc, France, and a My Early Health day at its site in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.
Driven by employee Wellness Teams at each major site, a My Early Health pilot will soon launch in the United Kingdom. It will provide ongoing health activities for employees spanning from the Health by Numbers challenges and Healthy Worksite tenets of smoking cessation, nutrition and exercise and also extend to wider wellness initiatives encompassing health screening, early detection, family health history and lifestyle reviews. Through this new program, employees will have the opportunity to join exercise classes, choose healthier options at lunch and select fruit at the vending machine.
My Early Health will be complemented by a series of testimonials, stories and observations gathered under the banner of “I am Healthcare Re-imagined”, through which employees can explain what Healthcare Re-imagined personally means to them and their families, as well as what it means to them to work at a business focused on improving human health.
“Early Health is more than a vision shared with our customers,” said Dr Joe Zompa, medical director of GE Healthcare. “It's important that each individual at GE understand his or her health risks and the opportunities and resources that exist for making healthy choices regarding tobacco, nutrition, exercise and more.”