Wellness

Overview

This workgroup was tasked with reviewing UC’s wellness program, UC Living Well and the Optum wellness platform (https://client.myoptumhealth.com/uclivingwell)
Employee engagement is significantly increased when a healthy work culture is created and sustained
This healthy work culture can be created through appropriate policies, benefits, environmental support, comprehensive programming and strong leadership in support of health and wellness
There are many challenges and constraints for staff when they attempted to use the existing wellness program, the online platform, and various individual campus wellness resources. These included:
- Time
- Resources
- Access
- Cost/funding
- Leadership buy-in
- Varying needs
- Metrics/benefits
- Communication and outreach

CUCSA recommendations

To address the leadership buy-in from the top, issue a ‘charge’ from President Napolitano soliciting the chancellors’ commitment
To improve communication, facilitation sharing of best practices and speed up allocation of resources, identify a wellness champion at UCOP to assist with the coordination of programs
To keep new and/or existing programs going provide funding to local campuses
To ensure better assessment and metrics to measure benefits of wellness programs, hire at least one wellness coordinator (1.0 FTE) at each location