YSU strikes gold with statewide Healthy Worksite Award

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown State University has won the Healthy Ohio-Healthy Worksite Gold Level Award for 2015 for its commitment to employee health.

YSU joins Ohio State University as the only universities in the state to receive the Gold Level Award.

YSU won the award in the Large Business category for organizations with more than 1,000 employees. Other winners in that category included OSU, Mount Carmel Health System, Mercy Medical Center, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, America Showa Inc., Union Hospital Dover, Southern Ohio Medical Center, Lake Health, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Tri-Health, and The Westfield Group.

It is the fifth consecutive year that YSU has won the award, but the first time the university has received the Gold Level Award. Previously, YSU won two Silver Awards and two Bronze Awards.