What Does WorkWell KS Do?

Work to Improve the Health of Kansans

Leading the WorkWell KS initiative across the state are Beloit, Clearwater, Clifton, Coffeyville, Great Bend, Independence, Lawrence, McPherson, Newton and Wellington. These communities, their business leaders and area worksites have identified health and wellness as a priority and are all working to make a difference. Please contact WorkWell KS if your community would like to participate in Year 2.

Help Employers Understand the Full Cost of Health

The health of a worksites employees effects the business in many ways. 70% of employers' cost arise from wage-replacement payments and lost productivity that result from absence or reduced job performance related to ill health. Good health is good business.

Cultivate Leaders for Health

WorkWell KS has developed a curriculum based on the Kansas Leadership Center's core competencies. Champions are identified for each community and have the opportunity to attend the training which will help build their leadership capacity and address the challenge of engaging business leaders around health and wellness.

Connect Worksites and Communities Around Health

WorkWell KS is collaborating with communities across the state of Kansas. Ten communities per year for three years will have the opportunity to participate. 210 worksites in 30 communities across Kansas will be conne

"It is one of our long-term goals to be a resource for healthier communities in McPherson," said WorkWell KS Champion Chad Clark, executive director of the McPherson Healthcare Foundation. "If we can adapt healthy behaviors at the workplace, those habits will be taken to the home as well. We want to be a resource for a better way."