Heart Niagara - Workplace Health Education

Get Well Stay Well

The goal of this program is to offer a first line of defense in the recognition, prevention, and rehabilitation of heart disease. With this in mind we offer industry the opportunity to further commit to their employee's quality of life by offering Cardiovascular Risk Awareness in the workplace.

Why do leading companies offer workplace wellness program?

27.3% consider healthy employees a valuable asset
25.6% want to promote a healthy lifestyle
14.3% want to reduce absenteeism
10.1% want to contain the cost of benefits programs
Health Canada is Business Case for Active Living at Work

Cardiovascular Risk Review
Risk review with non-fasting total and HDL cholesterols, blood pressure and Canadian cardiovascular guidelines scoring. The program is delivered on site over and up to 8 hour.

The program includes a cardiovascular risk review with a nurse practitioner. Nursing and dietary is $50 per hour to discuss results; a minimum number must be confirmed at $25 per person to cover test cassettes.

Blood Pressure Clinics on site by nursing. All elevated scores will receive a recommendation to seek further assessment from the primary health care provider. Cost recovery on staffing is $50 an hour per nurse (3 hour minimum). All other material costs are covered through Heart Niagara.

Smoke Cessation Program Heart Niagara wants to help your staff stop smoking and learn how to live smoke-free. By enroll in the Smoking Cessation Program, you will learn how smoking affects your health and get the tools you need to stop smoking. Call 905-358-5552 for more information. Prices will be quoted based on group requirement and worksite program design.

Weight Management
The Aim for a Healthy Weight education kit is designed to offer clients the resources they need to identify, assess, and manage overweight and obese clients, thereby reduce their risk for cardiovascular disease and other diseases.

Kit components include:

Facts About Healthy Weight fact sheet

Client Blood pressure booklet

Practical Guide

Client Program Outline

Waist circumference tape measure

Lunch N Learn Series:

Blood Pressure
Heart Niagara can come in and offer a 45 minute workshop on Blood Pressure and targets. The program is called Know Your Numbers. Excellent take away information $125 for the seminar for cost recovery on staffing.

Cholesterol
Heart Niagara can come in and offer a 45 minute workshop on Cholesterol and targets. The program is called Making the Connection. Excellent take away information $125 for the seminar for cost recovery on staffing.

Metabolic Syndrome
(a cluster of risk factors, which increase your risk of heart disease and diabetes) Heart Niagara can come in and offer a 45 minute workshop on Metabolic Syndrome. The program is called Making Changes That Last. Excellent take away information $125 for the seminar for cost recovery on staffing.

Stress Management
Heart Niagara can come in and offer a 45 minute workshop on Stress Management. The program is called How Can I Manage Stress?

Heart Niagara will provide handouts and suggest strategies and sources to reduce stress. If you provide Heart Niagara with information on your EAP we can include discussion on accessing external services; however we will need to charge $125 for the seminar for cost recovery on staffing.

Cooking For A Healthier You
Heart Niagara offers a 1:15 minute workshop on Cooking for A Healthier You at your facility rolled out of a four week period once a week but can be modified to meet your needs. Heart Niagara staff will come in a prepare a lunch on site and demonstrate and offer solutions on reducing the fat in your diet, maintaining changes and information on the risk factors of Heart Disease. We provide excellent take away information and recipes the program is $10 per person with a maximum of 25 in any for cost recovery on food cost.

Cardiovascular Exercise Strategies
Heart Niagara can come in and offer a 45 minute workshop on Daily Activity. The program is called Exercise Strategies. Heart Niagara will provide handouts and suggest strategies and sources to increase daily activity. If you provide Heart Niagara with information on your EAP we can include discussion on accessing external services; however we will need to charge $125 for the seminar
for cost recovery on staffing.

Awareness Raising:
On-going promotional material on healthy living behaviours available to all employees, examples include: