WELLNESS: 2020 VISION
ESHCA Wellness Newsletter
December 2020
The shareable link (printable) for this issue: https://conta.cc/36wTtGH
For complete member services visit us at: www.eshca.org
Wellness 2021: Checklist
1) Schedule Your Preventative Appointments:
  • Developing a rapport with your Primary Care Physician keeps you healthier, increases productivity and keeps insurance costs down!

  • A) Annual Physical
  • $0 copay
  • $200 incentive (click for details)
  • B) Vision
  • yearly exam covered at 100% allowable rate
  • review your SPD or contact Donna (ESHCA) with questions
  • C) Dental
  • 2 cleanings per year covered at 100% allowable rate
  • review your SPD or contact Donna (ESHCA) with questions

2) Healthy Lifestyle Incentives:
  • Chronic diseases (heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, etc.) account for 75% of US health costs. Sixty-percent (60%) of US adults have a least 1 chronic condition. 80% of chronic conditions can be managed or cured through healthy lifestyle habits being attentive to nutrition, exercise and tobacco usage.

  • A) ESHCA 35-Day Nutrition Challenge (January 2021) - format details
  • Click here to sign-up, please indicate the email address you would like to use.
  • $50 incentive
  • B) Gym Membership or Activity Log (36 workouts)
  • $50 incentive
  • C) Smoking Cessation
  • "The Butt Stops Here" (MVP Virtual Program)
  • $50 Incentive
  • D) Newsletter Challenges
  • Each member-family can collect 6 newsletter challenges per year
  • $25 per challenge
  • For more information on incentive offerings visit the Wellness Section of the ESHCA Website!

  • 64% of Americans are concerned they have not saved enough for retirement, QCI offers ESHCA members a yearly financial review! (See the Financial Wellness Section Below)

4) Register for "MyVisitNow":
  • 50% of ESHCA emergency room visits are unnecessary, costing the member a $250 copay!
  • ESHCA offers "MyVisitNow", an urgent care telemedicine service.
  • This is a 24/7/365 urgent care service. It is just like going to UC, the appointment is not with your PCP.
  • Services are offered at a $0 copay and are done using a smartphone, tablet or computer in the comfort of your own home or even on a jobsite!
  • Your copay cost: ER ($250), Urgent Care ($25) and MyVisitNow ($0)!!!
  • You must register to use the service! It does not cost you anything, just sign-up!
$25 Monthly Challenge - Fill out and score the Nutrition Section of the General Health Assessment!
  • Step 1 - Download and complete the Nutrition Assessment.
  • Step 2 - Download the Score Sheet and score your assessment.
  • Step 3 - Based on your score, what are you doing well and what can you improve upon?
  • Step 4 - Return the assessment to me (email, mail or fax) and you will receive the $25 incentive.
  • Reminder: only one incentive can be given to each member household (with the exception that more than one employee-member lives in a household). Please contact me if you have questions.
  • The last day to submit this challenge for the incentive is 1/14/21.
"Healthy" Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Tis the Season for Christmas Cookies...

Why not make them somewhat healthy? This months recipe makes a delicious chocolate chip cookie using whole grain flour (higher in fiber, vitamins and minerals), peanut butter (protein, healthy fat), and sweetened with honey, applesauce and organic chocolate chips!
Schedule a Financial Review with QCI
QCI Asset Management Inc. has done an outstanding job managing the retirement plan:


How much do you know about your retirement? Schedule a phone appointment with QCI to review your financial future! You are never too young (or too old) to be financially informed on your retirement.

  • Benefit: By law QCI cannot "sell" ESHCA members other services such as life insurance or college saving plans, making them the perfect resource to review your finances and provide you with unbiased information.


QCI Article of the Month: Your Retirement Readiness Checklist!
Strengthen Your Core
Low back pain is a “chronic” concern plaguing ESHCA members. Conditioning the lower back includes exercises that improve flexibility (2019) and strength (2020). Muscles on both sides of the moving joint, the agonist and the antagonist, should be addressed. For example, when strengthening the lower back one would combine an exercise that that targets the low back (agonist) with an exercise that targets the opposing muscle group (antagonist), the abdominals. The following is a complete review of the strength exercise combinations provided for low back conditioning in 2020 along with low back stretches from 2019.