"Comprehensive overrviews on major happenings in the field of behavioral health and wellness. Presenters: Experienced & Knowledgeable!"
— Mary Dougherty-Hunt, Senior Vice President, Carebridge Corporation
"Excellent combination of clinical information and policy issues,"
— David J. McDowell, PhD, Medical Director, Unum Provident
"Mix of employers and providers produced incredible diversity;"
"discussion during presenteeism panel was excellent because of feedback loop with audience"
— Herb Ozer, Director of Operations, Providence Health & Services
"Top leaders in the field"
— Kirsten Tierney, Director of Wellness, Kisco Senior Living
"Great job putting this conference together. I will be back next year"
— Kari Kerschke, Director of Business Development, Child & Family Consultants
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Friday July 13, 2007
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7:15 am
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8:15 am
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8:30 am
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11:30 am
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- Demonstrate how mental health, workplace and management factors reduce human capital effectiveness
- Outline how a comprehensive assessment produces customized and rank-ordered causal factors for presenteeism, absenteeism, health care utilization and stress
- Show that rank-ordered causes are roadmaps for action to increase human capital effectiveness
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12:30 pm -
1:30 pm
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- Learn why behavioral techniques develop a person’s thinking to increase motivation to think and act healthier
- Why do these techniques create lasting behavior change and are essential to your business
- Discover how this approach is decreasing medical costs, increasing productivity and decreasing absenteeism
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1:30 pm -
2:00 pm
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2:00 pm -
2:45 pm
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- What are effective strategies , polices and practices in managing rural and frontier behavioral health care?
- How can primary care behavioral health support employees in small cities with low numbers of psychiatrists
- Examine behavioral health support directed to expatriates and their families with American multinational corporations
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2:45 pm -
3:30 pm
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- Articulate the rationale for developing tools to help employers design, implement, and evaluate behavioral health and wellness programs
- Describe the relationships between employee? demographics, modifiable risk factors, medical expenditures, and productivity
- Outline how behavioral health and wellness? programs can influence medical expenditures, worker productivity and ROI projections.
- Assess how productivity benefits can be? included in overall ROI projections by calculating work days saved as a result of behavioral health and wellness initiatives and associated reductions in health risk
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Ron Z. Goetzel, Ph.D.
Director, Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, Cornell University Institute for Policy Research; Vice President, Consulting and Applied Research, Thomson Medstat
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3:30 pm
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