-: My name is Lee Byers and I am the Wellness Coordinator
for Helen Keller Hospital.
So basically my job entails ensuring
that all of the Helen Keller Hospital employees
as well as our corporate partners and their employees
and community members have access to a variety
of different health and wellness programs that would include
anything from nutrition and exercise education,
stress management, smoking cessation,
and weight management classes.
I could do anything from individualized one on one
health coaching sessions, and it could include
visiting one of our corporate partners
at their business place and putting on
a health fair for their employees.
So every day is different.
Our corporate partners may have interest
in providing their employees with a variety
of different health and wellness programs.
Health fairs are very popular,
so they may give me a call and say,
hey, we want to put on a health fair
and include health screenings for the employees.
A lot of companies will do this annually
to help make sure their employees are healthy.
So aside from planning health fairs
for our corporate partners
and various events and programs for them,
I'm responsible for our own hospital employees
health and wellness program.
So when I'm in the office and not working on that,
really trying to focus on making sure
that our employees have a lot of access
to exercise programs,
reputable sources for nutrition information.
One on one health coaching if employees are having trouble
with managing their weight,
or let's say they're having really serious issues
with stress and they're not able to make
those healthy changes because something's kind of been
a barrier for them and holding them back.
Then I'm able to try to help determine
what those barriers are and provide some resources
to help them work those out.