Wellness: ten ways to make your workplace healthier

These 10 suggestions to make the workplace healthier are just a few ideas to get a health promotion or wellness program started. Employees are a great resource for ideas and suggestions, and unless the health care supervisor asks, the needs of the worker may remain unfulfilled. If a health care facility decides to initiate such a program, it will find that everyone will win. The employees will feel cared about and will, in return, care more about their jobs and responsibilities. Health care team members should be promoting health, not only for patients, but for themselves and their employees as well. In 1974, then Governor of North Carolina Terry Sanford said: "We need to invent and present more alternative approaches to health care, principally in teaching people how to care better for themselves, and the more difficult challenge--convincing them that they should." Institutions can start with their own health care employees, by making it easier for them to take better care of themselves.