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Show B-13 The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, April 22-25, 2006 ARUP Labs receive Healthy Workplace Award ARUP Laboratories, a national reference laboratory, has been named a winner of the American Psychological Association's 2006 National Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award. The Utahbased organization was named the winner in the large for-profit category. The award is given to organizations that implement a comprehensive array of workplace practices that foster employee health and well being, while enhancing organizational performance. Nominees were evaluated in the areas of employee involvement; health and safety; employee growth and development; work-life balance; and employee recognition -- all components of a psychologically healthy workplace. ARUP engages its employees in a variety of ways, from surveys, suggestion boxes and an official open-door policy to town hall meetings and "brown bag" lunches where executives answer employees' questions. ARUP's Continuous Quality Improvement Program encourages employees to contribute to teams charged with addressing quality issues affecting both internal and external customers. ARUP's free on-site health clinic is just one example of the company's emphasis on employee health and well being. Open six days a week, the clinic provides employees and their families with health care services that range from preventive to urgent care. ARUP also provides a free 24-hour wellness center that offers the benefits of a full-service fitness center, including convenient "mini exercise classes" during breaks as well as formal courses on topics such as strength training, Tai Chi, yoga, cancer prevention, weight management, smoking cessation and healthy eating habits. To help employees broaden their professional knowledge, ARUP's Institute for Learning (IFL) partners with the University of Utah's Department of Pathology to offer a broad range of continuing education opportunities including lectures, conferences, professional publications, on-site training, and academic fellowships. Regardless of their role within ARUP, employees can count on the IFL's career counseling resources to help them customize their individual career paths and design a sound strategy for developing competencies and moving up in the organization. ARUP offers a variety of flexible job schedules along with a number of innovative benefits, including free lab testing for employees' families and pels, supplemental to join and remain with the companewborn screening, a lactation nyroom for nursing mothers, pet "We believe that creating a insurance and personalized finan- flexible, healthy workplace is not cial counseling. just the right thing to do for our ARUP regularly presents employees' well being, it's also the awards for both individual and right thing to do for the organizateam performance and service tion's well being," comments recognition and reinforces the ARUP's president and COO company's emphasis on health and Ronald L. Weiss. M.D., M.B.A., well being with its monthly "Dr. agreeing that the programs ARUP Kjeldsberg Award." given to an has implemented have provided a employee who has made a signifi- win-win situation at ARUP. cant healthy lifestyle change. "In today's challenging business According to ARUP's CEO environment, organizations are and Chairman of the Board, Carl looking for the competitive advanR. Kjeldsberg, M.D., "ARUP rec- tage that will give them an edge in ognizes that if our employees arc to the marketplace and help them exhibit a caring attitude and strong exceed their customers' expectacommitment to patients and physi- tions," said Russ Newman, Ph.D., cians, ARUP needs to set an exam- JD. APA's executive director for ple by showing a caring and Professional Practice. "ARUP respectful attitude to our employ- Laboratories* low absenteeism and increased productivity demonstrate ees." For ARUP, treating its that employee health and well employees well has paid off. High being and organizational performorale, improved health and well mance are inextricably linked." being, and employee satisfaction More information about the have translated to low absenteeism National PHWA winners and Best and • increased productivity. Practices Honorees is available at Additionally, ARUP's employee http://apahelpcenter.mcdiaroom.co turnover rate is only 14 percent, m. Companies interested in learnwhich falls in the bottom quartile ing more about creating a psychofor the lab industry. In a recent sur- logically healthy workplace or vey, a majority of employees cited applying for an award in their state, ARUP's benefits package as a province or territory, can visit strong influence on their decision www.phwa.org. National Infant Immunization Week is observed Parents are constantly concerned about keeping their children safe and healthy. To protect them, they put them in child safety seats and install childproof door latches. One of the most important ways parents protect their children is to follow the childhood immunization schedule and get them vaccinated against serious but preventable diseases. Vaccines are one of medicine's greatest triumphs because they prevent serious disease and death. Many once common infectious diseases such as polio, mumps, whooping cough, and rubella (German measles), are now only distant memories for most Americans. Today in the United States, we have few reminders of the suffering, disabilities, and premature deaths caused by these vaccine-preventable diseases. Many of todays parents have never even seen the diseases that vaccines prevent and don't fully understand the significance of fol- :^r; lowing the childhood immunization schedule. Instead, a parent may ask, "Why does my baby need so many shots?" Before age two, every child should be immunized against 12 potentially .serious vaccine-preventable diseases: measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio, haemophilias influenza type b (Hib disease), hepatitis b. varicella (chickenpox), pneumococcal disease and influenza. A series of shots need to be given for most of these diseases to provide full protection. Vaccines are given at this early age because the diseases they prevent are far more serious or common among babies or young children. Up to 60 percent of severe disease caused by Hib in children is among babies less than 12 months of age. Moreover, 90 percent of all deaths from whooping cough are among children under six months of age. The ages that Park City Wireless has the phones you want and the service you need! doctors recommend vaccines in the immunization schedule are not arbitrary. They were chosen to give our children the earliest and best protection against disease. National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW), April 22-29, is an annual observance that highlights the importance of timely immunization for children age two and younger. This year more than 500 events are expected to take place across the nation to increase awareness of the importance of vaccination. 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