Healthier at Home
The Healthier at Home® Self-Care Program, offered by FONEMED and the American Institute of Preventive Medicine, consists of a number of components that effectively help your employees/members make better health care decisions. They all work together to get the right information, to the right people, at the right time. Research in 22 independent studies on the Healthier at Home® self-care guide alone has demonstrated an average savings of $70.85 per employee in 9 months due to reduced doctor and emergency room visits.
Healthier at Home includes:
Welcome Packet – The packet consists of a welcome letter, refrigerator magnet, book mark, membership card, and program brochure that includes an invitation to telephone our Registered Nurses with any medical concerns.
Healthier at Home® Self-Care Guide – This 416 page book has set the standard for all self-care publications. Presented in an easy to read, step by step format, it provides up-to-date information on over 300 health topics. It instantly turns your bookshelf into a health information center. It is in full color with over 320 illustrations and photos.
Nurse Advice Line – Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, FONEMED’s nurse advice service provides a unique system to effectively route the caller to needed health information. Experienced registered nurses utilize an assessment system that accurately identifies needs and level of urgency for callers seeking medical care or information. Includes an audio health library of 2200 topics of which 600 are in Spanish.
Online Healthier at Home® – It contains all of the health topics along with wellness and wise consumer information from the Healthier at Home® self-care book.
HealthyLearn Website – Your employees/members receive easy access to thousands of articles on diseases, wellness, surgery, and specific age groups. There is also a drug and supplement database, medical dictionary, health encyclopedia, informative graphics, and interactive videos. The website is also available in Spanish.
Instructional DVD – The “Self-Care and You” DVD teaches your employees /members how to get maximum benefit from Healthier at Home®. It can be put on your website or shown at training sessions. There are both 11 minute and 22 minute versions on the DVD.
Ongoing Communications – To continually promote use of the Healthier at Home® Self-Care Program, we provide a bimonthly, full color, 8 page newsletter. It also provides valuable wellness information that coincides with national health observances.
Program Evaluation – Quarterly reports demonstrate employee/member use of the nurse advice line, reasons for the calls, and triage diversion savings. An annual report evaluates the Healthier at Home® self-care guide and includes a Return on Investment (ROI) analysis.
