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"The NextSteps program was as valuable as an employer's contribution to a 403B or retirement plan.  With my coaches help I am managing my weight problem.  Needless to say I'm very pleased with this program.  Thank you!"
NextSteps® Lifestyle and Disease Management Program

Health risk intervention programs like StayWell’s NextSteps are proven tools to help you control health care costs. Our unrivaled program design, management expertise, and cost-effective programming is built around two main philosophies.

  1. Programming Tailored to Your Individual Employees. NextSteps begins with an invitation to eligible employees based on their health risks and readiness to change. Recruitment efforts can include phone, online or traditional mail enrollment.  Each employee’s risk status and participation is kept completely confidential.

    Once enrolled, we match each employee with a degreed and certified Health Coach. These seasoned, in-house health professionals match their health education counseling to each employee’s stage of change. Working together, the Health Coach and employee develop a personalized action plan, short-term, and long-term goals.
  2. Programming Customized to Your Organization. We work with you to design flexible programs that meet the specific needs of your employee population. We can integrate data and services with your other vendors or we can be the single source for all your health management needs. Common program choices include:
    • Personalized Lifestyle Interventions by Phone
      • Participants receive a Personal Action Guide
      • Participants work one-on-one with a Health Coach in a series of phone calls to set goals, determine readiness to change, discuss barriers and strategies, document progress toward goals, and more
      • A typical program might include three initial calls over a 12-week period, follow-up calls, and additional ad hoc calls scheduled by the Health Coach and participant to meet unique individual needs.
    • Personal-Paced Lifestyle Interventions By Mail
      • Participants receive a personalized Welcome and Program Review.
      • Participants receive ongoing personalized letters, educational brochures and booklets to help them set goals, identify barriers, build skills for overcoming barriers, make progress on new behaviors, strategize self-rewards, and stay motivated.
      • A typical program might include monthly mailings for a six-month period.
    • Personalized Lifestyle Interventions Online
      • Participants receive personalized Healthy Living Programs via the Internet.
      • A typical program is self-paced and includes six comprehensive modules.
      • Online lifestyle intervention programs are offered in conjunction with Miavita and are integrated with StayWell’s online product and service offerings.

For more information on options for the NextSteps® program, call us at 800-373-3577 or email us at marketing@staywell.com.
Personalized NextSteps® Programs 

Our personalized NextSteps programs cover a wide range of risk factors and topics, including:

Lifestyle Topics

  • back care
  • blood pressure management
  • cholesterol management
  • exercise
  • health care consumerism
  • nutrition
  • smoking cessation
  • stress management
  • weight management

Self-Management for Chronic Conditions

  • adult asthma
  • congestive heart failure
  • coronary artery disease
  • diabetes (Type I and Type II)
  • hypertension
  • hyperlipidemia

A StayWell client directed its NextSteps program at their employees on short-term disability. It provided participants the skills and support they needed to adopt positive lifestyle changes which helped them lose weight, exercise more often, stop smoking and reduce stress. After 12 months:

  • 90% of participants identified as overweight successfully lost weight.
  • 50% of the smokers enrolled in the program successfully quit smoking.
  • 86% of NextSteps participants increased their level of frequency of exercise and/or reduced their level and frequency of stress.

A published scientific study of 1,700 NextSteps participants showed that StayWell’s approach reduced health risks in their participant population by 12 percent. A comparison of non-participants increased their health risks by 2 percent.