At the 2024 Women's Health Summit, attendees learned about best practices for benefits and well-being to support cancer prevention, healthy pregnancies and infants, fertility support, menopause, and mental health for women in the workforce. Copies of the presentations can be accessed below.

• Bridging the Gap: Evolving Benefits to Support Women’s Health Milestones | Dr. Janet Choi, Chief Medical Officer, Progyny (Click here for PDF Presentation)
• Supporting the Spectrum of Women’s Health Needs | Shelly Lanning, President, Visana Health (Click here for PDF Presentation)
• Improving Birth Outcomes | Randa Deaton, Vice President, Purchaser Business Group on Health (Click here for PDF Presentation)
• Panel: Supporting the Struggles of Working Women | Rebecca Warnken, Senior Vice President, Aon, Juliet Vestal, Corporate Vice President, Total Rewards, B. Braun Medical, Reetika Kumar, Vice President, Market Clinical Solutions, Independence Blue Cross, and Marsha Greene-Jones, Deputy Director, Employee Benefits, City of Philadelphia (Click here for PDF Presentation)
• The Weight of Caregiving: Exploring the Deep Impact on Women's Health | Julia Cohen Sebastien, Co-founder and CEO, Grayce (Click here for PDF Presentation)

Promoting a culture of health is vital to addressing diabetes and obesity in the workforce. Hosted by GPBCH, Delaware Health and Social Services, and Delaware SHRM Statewide Council, this program brings together Delaware employers and benefits advisors with experts and peers to address diabetes and obesity to come away with solutions to improve health and reduce costs. The program will feature presentations from subject matter experts, break-out sessions to utilize evidence-based tools for planning, and open discussion. Approved for 2.5 SHRM PDC credits.

In recognition of Sunday, February 4th as World Cancer Day, GPBCH hosted this member webinar on cancer screening. Edgar Chou, MD, MBA, Enterprise Medical Director for Employee Population Health and Value-based Care for Jefferson Health provided an overview of the current screening recommendations for breast, cervical, colorectal, prostate, and lung cancers, and also discussed other preventive strategies including HPV vaccination. New ideas were also presented for promoting participation in screening initiatives offered by employers.

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Employers Health, GPBCH’s preferred pharmacy benefit resource and solution, is an employer-led, group purchasing organization for pharmacy benefits with 350 clients in various industries nationwide. During this webinar, their pharmacy benefits experts provided insight on how pharmacy benefits are currently performing from a client testimonial by Panera Bread.

This informative webinar included:

• Overview of Employers Health with Mike Stull (Chief Sales Officer) & Chris Donley (RVP, Business Development)
• Client Case Study – Panera Bread with Taylor Conner (Director, Client Solutions) & Panera Bread team
• Anti-Obesity Medications overview with Courtney Keefe, Pharm D (Clinical Advisor)
• Legislative Updates with Madison Connor, J.D. (SVP, Regulatory Compliance and External Affairs)

To get insight and prepare for your next PBM RFP, contact Chris Donnelly, Employers Health, 330-309-7688, cdonley@employershealthco.com or email Tanika Smith, GPBCH, tsmith@gpbch.org.

January is a great time to build or improve your enterprise culture of health and wellbeing strategy. Dr. Ray, our long time medical advisor and recognized expert in population health, shared 5 evidence-based steps to take employees through to move them to greater health, wellbeing, vitality and healthcare engagement.

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