Healthy Wichita

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We've taken Healthy Wichita statewide! Be sure to check out WorkWell KS, funded by the Kansas Health Foundation and coordinated by the Wichita Business Coalition on Health Care, that provides leadership and resources for businesses and organizations to support work site health.

WorkWell KS | Engaging Leaders and Businesses in Kansas to Support Health and Healthy Worksites 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.

Our health-care productivity problem, in one chart Health care is the only growing sector where productivity is on the decline. That’s great for employment but not for long-term health costs.

It's not too early to start planning for the 2012 Fight for the Air Climb! Form a team, raise money and win great prizes. The American Lung Association event is sponsored by The Coleman Co. and will be held on Saturday, April 21 at Cessna Stadium. For more information, call Abby Brungardt at (316) 558-3090.