Sapers & Wallack supports National Wellness Month

NORTH EASTON, Mass. - June 5, 2013 - PRLog -- Sapers & Wallack, a leader in the employee benefits industry, announced today that they have pledged their support to the fifth annual National Employee Wellness Month (http://www.nationalemployeewellnessmonth.com/). This month-long initiative helps business leaders learn from best practices of how to successfully engage employees in healthy lifestyles.

National Employee Wellness Month is sponsored by Virgin HealthMiles (http://us.virginhealthmiles.com/pages/home.aspx), in partnership with the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance (http://www.stopobesityalliance.org/), the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (http://www.fightchronicdisease.org/) and WorldatWork (http://www.worldatwork.org/waw/home/html/home.jsp).

Now more than ever, employers need effective strategies to improve employee health and create healthy cultures that will significantly improve productivity and reduce healthcare costs. National Employee Wellness Month highlights the powerful role the workplace can play in helping employees make these healthy lifestyle changes.

During the month, Sapers & Wallack along with other leading organizations nationwide will actively promote prevention and good health throughout its organization, to help employees understand the impact and importance of healthy lifestyles. “We believe that an effective Employee Wellness Program can be one of the most important contributors to the success of a company’s Benefits Program,” said Aviva Sapers, CEO of Sapers & Wallack. “With that in mind, we recently added a full-time Wellness Coordinator to our team to assist our clients in creating and managing innovative worksite wellness programs.”

Find more information, resources and ideas to promote National Employee Wellness Month within your organization www.nationalemployeewellnessmonth.com.

About Sapers & Wallack:

Established in 1932, Sapers & Wallack is a third generation family-run business. Our approach to insurance, wealth management and benefits planning goes beyond the traditional role to deliver a single source solution for sustainable cost management. We are committed to our clients’ best interests, creating cost effective solutions, diligently monitoring the plans and responding proactively and quickly to the potential impact of product and legislative changes.

For many employers, implementing a wellness program is often an intimidating and overwhelming process. Sapers & Wallack offers the services of a dedicated Wellness Coordinator to bring together available resources to our clients providing a wide array of options - whether you are just testing the waters and implementing a few small wellness initiatives, or moving into a comprehensive wellness program.