It’s interesting to know that Serigraph, Inc., the global provider of innovative printed decorating solutions, is consciously making an effort to provide its employees the best healthcare benefit there is, and that which is most cost-efficient for the company. Do you know of any other company that does that?
According to John Torinus, CEO at Serigraph, they are driven by the basic principle that is behavior change—a four-way behavior change: how employees use medical treatments, how they buy them, how they live their lives and how those with chronic conditions follow their regiments.
Because employees are made to understand the need and importance of managing their healthcare benefits, they in a way, help the company save, and at the same time, get the most benefit.
To better manage and provide such benefit to their employees, Serigraph will adopt Lean and Six Sigma, and have regular quality audits:
We will, for example, identify our diabetics through annual health risk assessments and then use problem-solving methods and incentives to get them all under control. We will need to link with our two major doctor groups to do the metrics for control, namely A1c readings, lipid levels and cholesterol. Our mutual goal will be 100% of our diabetics under control. That should head off major health catastrophes that are devastating personally and financially. Then it will be on to asthma, hypertension and the dozen other chronic diseases that cause an estimated 60% to 70% of all medical costs. We are planning a monthly reward to the HRAs of co-workers who stay in control. Read more…
