Healthy behaviors begin at work

UnitedHealthcare of New England wants healthy workforces throughout Rhode Island. So it’s focusing its wellness efforts close to home – with its own employees.

UnitedHealthcare employees can participate in a robust, diverse array of free, on-site wellness initiatives that include walking and physical-activity programs, nutrition challenges, massages, Fresh Fruit Mondays, biometric screenings and flu clinics, said Catherine Theodore, UnitedHealthcare’s wellness director.

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Employees and their spouses or domestic partners can confidentially access online and telephonic coaching, a diabetes prevention program, blood pressure and weight screenings and a smoking-cessation program.

In 2015, United Healthcare launched a new online initiative, Rally, which allows its nearly 120,000 employees in the United States – 131 of whom work at the Warwick regional headquarters – to engage in their health and wellness. n

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Number of Employees: 115,000

CEO (or equivalent): Stephen J. Farrell, president and CEO

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