Your Healthy Lifestyles and - Knowing Your Numbers

Having a Healthy Lifestyle includes being in the know about your own personal health and wellness, and Knowing your Numbers is essential to your personal wellness plan.  Your Numbers are (1) Blood Pressure (2) Body Mass Index, (3) your Cholesterol measurement and (4) your risk for Diabetes.  To help our employees get started with their own personal wellness project, we are offering Know Your Numbers events at on—site events, and through selected North Shore LIJ Laboratories Patient Service Centers.   Once you you’re your numbers, you should review them with your personal doctor.

Don’t have a doctor?  We can help with that too!  If you are in a North Shore LIJ health benefits plan through Empire or Aetna, you should get a doctor from the North Shore LIJ CIIPA.  To go to the look up a doctor function. Click Here

If you have health insurance through your spouse, or through your union, and want to see a doctor affiliated with a North Shore LIJ hospital Click Here to go to the Find a NSLIJ Physician site.

Keep Track of your Numbers!  North Shore LIJ has partners with an ActiveHealth, a third party who offers Personal Health Records and various trackers for health conditions.   This site is private, secure and your information cannot be disclosed to anyone without your authorization.  All employees in the NSLIJ Health System can set up a Personal Health Record. Click Here

How to get started...
All employees are invited to participate in Know Your Numbers events which will be held at local facilities, and at select NSLIJ Laboratory's Patient Service Centers starting December 5th, 2011. These are free, voluntary and private. The information is for YOU, and for you to share with your health care provider.

On-site Know Your Numbers Events – Starting December 5th

To download the Schedule for On-site Know Your Numbers events Click HERE

About Us

As the largest employer in the New York metropolitan area and one of the country’s leading healthcare organizations, the North Shore-LIJ Health System has an obligation to provide its employees—the caregivers in the community—wellness education and resources. We want our employees to have the knowledge and tools to make healthier choices—both on and off the job!

Healthy Lifestyles, is resource designed to promote and encourage health and wellness for each and every employee. Healthy Lifestyles promotes health through smoking cessation programs, including free counseling and medications to help employees quit, discounted fitness programs through gyms and Weight Watchers®, educational seminars on nutrition and medical care and discounted rates at on-site weight management centers. So what are you waiting for? Click on the Team Member Programs page to get started!

You can also contact your Site Wellness Action Team (SWAT) or send us your comments.

Why Wellness Makes Sense

Did you know that although the United States spends more dollars on healthcare than any other industrialized nation, our citizens are not the world’s healthiest? Leading causes of premature death in this country are linked to personal behaviors that contribute to disease development or exacerbate existing health problems. Look no further than the following statistics:

• Over 60% of adults do not achieve the recommended amount of regular physical activity and 25% of adults are not active at all
• Approximately one-half of the youth in this country are not active on a regular basis
  (Source: Surgeon General’s Report on Physical Activity & Health, 1996)
• According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost 1 in 5 American adults are considered obese
  (Source: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) and National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases)

Despite overwhelming evidence of the relationship between smoking and illness, tobacco usage is still prevalent:

• Since the release of the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health in 1964, Americans have consumed 17 trillion cigarettes and approximately 10 million people in the United States have died from smoking related causes
• 3,000 young people begin smoking every day despite the growing number of early, preventable deaths
  (Source: The American Cancer Society)

So what are you waiting for? Click on the Team Member Programs page to get started!

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