Gaithersburg Receives Flu Fighter Award for Health Initiatives

From the City of Gaithersburg: Adventist HealthCare and its workplace wellness division, LifeWork Strategies, recently presented the City of Gaithersburg with a 2016 Flu Fighter Award. This is the sixth consecutive year that Gaithersburg has received the award, which recognizes local employers for their efforts to prevent the spread of influenza.

“The CDC recommends that everyone over six months of age get a flu vaccine as soon as it’s available to prevent hospitalizations, complications, and death from the flu and pneumonia. Offering at-work clinics for your employees and their families to be vaccinated, promoting good health habits, and encouraging those who are sick to stay home are all critical to this effort,” said Mindy Pierce, Director of LifeWork Strategies. “We appreciate the steps that the City of Gaithersburg has taken to help stop the spread of flu in your workplace and in our community.”

As part of its Wellness Day activities in October of 2016, the City of Gaithersburg offered free flu shots to all City employees and their immediate family members. The City provides other wellness activities and benefits to qualifying employees throughout the year, including a GFit reimbursement program for health and fitness-related activities, free membership to the City’s fitness center, discounted fees for recreation classes, health screenings and resource information at Wellness Day, and regular health tips offered through its insurance carrier.

Additionally, Gaithersburg’s Wellness@Work committee, made up representatives from a number of City departments, is promoting healthier lifestyles through diet and exercise programs, contests that encourage health assessments and annual physicals, and fun challenges to keep wellness front of mind.

For more information on Gaithersburg’s wellness programs please contact the Department of Human Resources at 301-258-6327.

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