(Posted 11-6-00)
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WORKPLACE HEALTH AWARDS PRESENTED BY WCNC

GREENSBORO--Twelve North Carolina companies received  Well Workplace Awards at the annual conference of the Wellness Council of North Carolina (WCNC), held here Nov. 2-3.

WCNC is part of the Institute for Health, Science and Society at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and is affiliated with the Wellness Councils of America. As a non-profit member organization dedicated to the promotion of wellness in the work place, it serves over 300 member companies across the state of North Carolina.

The awards recognized the businesses as being among the state’s healthiest places to work. The companies were honored for their achievements in work site health promotion. Each has been added to the “America's Healthiest Companies” list, kept by the Wellness Councils of America. Well Workplace Awards are given on three levels and this year’s recipients were as follows:

• Gold Awards, Branch Banking and Trust Company, Winston-Salem; GMAC Insurance Personal Lines, Winston-Salem; Grace Healthcare, Morganton; and Novartis Crop Protection Inc., Greensboro. Gold Awards are given to those companies that have integrated wellness into the culture of the organization and have demonstrated an ongoing commitment to employee health.

• Silver Awards, Buncombe County Health Center, Asheville; Catawba Memorial Hospital, Hickory; and Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp., High Point. Silver awards are made to companies that demonstrate a movement to behavior change in employee health habits as a result of the company's wellness efforts.

• Bronze Awards, CIGNA Healthcare of North Carolina, Raleigh; City of Hendersonville; Metropolitan Sewage District of Buncombe County, Asheville; and Wake County Government, Raleigh. Bronze Awards are given to companies for laying the foundation for comprehensive wellness programming.
• Excellence in Health Promotion Award, to Haywood Regional Medical Center in Clyde.

Keynote speaker for the event was Dr. Brian L. Seaward, executive director of Inspiration Unlimited and Rocky Mountain Stress Management Seminars of Longemont, Col. “Back to the Future: Comprehensive Tools for Modern Worksite Wellness” was the conference theme.

Approximately 250 business and health leaders from the Southeastern United States attended the conference. The council's annual conference is designed to bring emerging issues in wellness and prevention to business, health and community leaders.

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