OpenHouse Direct, Inc. Launches New Website for Corporate Health and Wellness Education

New educational website healthfairsdirect.com is designed to help executives understand the growing corporate health and wellness trends and the benefits of supporting a healthy employee workforce.

OpenHouse Direct, Inc., a corporate health and wellness event planning company with national capabilities, announces their new website to help corporations decipher today’s employee health and wellness trends and the ideal employee programs to implement into their corporate environment.

“With the majority of our clientele based in New York City, we see corporations take a proactive interest in their employees’ long-term health and wellness,” says John Buckley, President of OpenHouse Direct. “One difficulty these corporations face is selecting a health fair provider that has their best interest mind.”

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, corporations began to sponsor employee health and wellness fairs as an inexpensive and fun ‘benefit’ that gave the impression that the company was concerned with their staff’s health. Today we see that corporations are setting aside budgets to offer potentially life-saving medical screenings such as blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes testing and even pulmonary and bone density screenings during their events.

Historically the responsibility of employee health issues has fallen onto the Benefits Managers, Human Resource Managers, Corporate Nurses or onsite Fitness Centers to design, coordinate and run their corporate health & wellness initiatives.

John Buckley states: “These corporate representatives often are unaware of how to go about planning an employee health fair and rely very heavily on the local health fair providers, which in most cases are actually owned by doctors’ offices using corporate health fairs for the sole purpose of growing their individual medical practice. Or even worse, some corporations try to invite local businesses themselves which opens the door to all kinds of issues with exhibitors such as implied endorsement, personal favoritism, even the appearance of kickbacks as many corporate professionals choose exhibitors based on personality and not their professional background and professionalism.”

This website was specifically designed to help a corporate wellness planner wade through and understand the myriad of health and wellness event planning options that now exist. The reader will find information such as questions to ask when choosing a health fair provider, the difference between being in-network and ‘taking your insurance’, and potential legal repercussions a corporation may face regarding implied endorsement.

OpenHouse Direct, Inc. is an independently-owned corporate health and wellness coordination company that specializes in corporate health and wellness fairs. They have national capability, promise only in-network health and wellness providers attend their events and offer competitive pricing for flu shots, blood pressure, glucose and cholesterol screenings, as well as many other preventative health screenings.

Additional information about their programs can be found at www.healthfairsdirect.com.

OpenHouse Direct, Inc.
7 Maiden Lane
Bound Brook, NJ 08805
Maria Leamy
Phone: 732-563-9749
Fax: 732-563-9756
Email: mleamy@healthfairsdirect.com

This release was published on openPR.