YSU wins Healthy Ohioans work site award

YSU wins Healthy Ohioans work site award

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Youngstown State University has been selected to receive the Healthy Ohioans-Healthy Worksite Award for its commitment to the health and well-being of its employees during 2011.

In all, 34 businesses and organizations are receiving awards. YSU, which is receiving a bronze-level award, is the only university on the list.

“Your ... exemplary efforts to provide employees with programs that encourage physical activity, better nutrition and the prevention or cessation of tobacco use are to be commended,” Mari-jean Siehl, director of the Healthy Ohio Business Council, says in a letter to Carrie Clyde, YSU’s Wellness coordinator.

“As you know, these efforts will have far-reaching implications not only for the health of your employees, but the health of your business as well.”

The award, which will be presented Jan. 31, in Dublin, Ohio, as part of the Health Action Council Ohio Columbus Kick-Off Conference, recognizes efforts by Ohio employers to facilitate and encourage employee health, enhance productivity and ensure a healthy work environment.

YSU employees exercise in Beeghly Center as part of the university’s Living Well program. YSU is the only university to receive the Healthy Ohioans Healthy Worksite Award for 2011.

“This award recognizes YSU’s commitment to the health of our employees,” Clyde said. “We know that a proactive wellness program that helps create a healthy work environment will result in healthier, more productive and happier employees, which allows us to better serve our students and our community.”

YSU began offering a worksite wellness program in August 2009.