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Want to win an iPad?  Cigna will automatically enter your name in a drawing to win one of ten iPads (donated by them) when you fill a prescription using Cigna Home Delivery or at a Cigna Specialty Pharmacy between July 1, 2013 and October 31, 2013.   Switching is hassle-free.  One call to Cigna and they will do the rest. All UMS employees and dependents covered by our Cigna plan are eligible.  

Use Cigna for your prescriptions and get a chance to win an iPad

  

What’s New?

This website is an excellent resource for you and your children/grandchildren to explore.  Kids learn from kids about current topics in a language they can relate to.  Example:  ” … ticks suck your blood!”   Helping children understand how to take care of themselves is a gift worth giving.

Thanks RiseUP! 

A colleague wrote … “Last week I read an article you posted about a colleague with a low pulse rate.  Mine has been low for several months, so I decided to be my own health advocate and ask for an EKG. My doc had an opening so I went in the next day.   To cut to the chase … it turns out that the top half of my heart isn’t communicating properly with the bottom half.  I will have a pacemaker implanted next week. Had I not read your article, I most likely would have put it off with potentially devastating consequences.  I am 44 years old and I believe I am dodging a bullet.”  Ed. note:  See “Success Stories” for prior article(s).

Do you have a favorite activity, healthy recipe, tips for feeling good that you’d like to share?  Have you overcome hurdles to improving your health?   We’d like to hear from you.  Send your ideas, or suggestions to: Editor.umsriseup@gmail.com.  All submissions will be entered into a monthly drawing for a gift certificate.



Why Wellness?

 
A Recent National Study Identifies the Ten Most Modifiable Health Risks  Linked to More than 20% of Employer-Employee Health Care Spending:
- Depression- High blood glucose- High blood pressure- Obesity- Tobacco use- Physical inactivity- High Stress
The Reasons2RiseUP Program offers guidance and resources to help employees understand and lower their health risks.  We, as a community, can do better! Early detection and treatment, knowing our health risks, changing behavior — all add up to lowering our health care costs.  It benefits all of us!

 Why Care About Wellness?  Know your risks!  Make Wellness your priority in 2013.

 

 

We’ve moved our video success stories to a new location.  See Success Stories and enjoy watching your colleagues’ progress as they make wellness a priority in their lives.