The Sheriff’s Department Wellness & Fitness Program rewards regular exercise, good nutrition and other healthy lifestyle choices. These ‘Activities’ are available, as an additional bonus, to all Members who have received a ‘meets’ on the Cooper Institute’s Fitness Assessment. For those Members who did not receive a ‘meets’ on the Fitness Assessment, these ‘Activities’ comprise the ‘Remedial Fitness Training’. There is no additional monetary compensation beyond the maximum of $600 for those Members having achieved a ‘meets’ for participating in the below ‘Activities’.
- Health Risk Assessment (HRA): A tool, available to the Member and their Spouse or Registered Domestic Partner, consisting of valid and reliable questions related to your individual lifestyle practices and health history factors that have the highest impact on individual health, and biometric measures to determine health status. Lifestyle questions focus on exercise, nutrition, diabetes risk, smoking, alcohol, stress, and well-being and personal/family medical history. Additionally, the HRA addresses a person’s ‘readiness to change’ that allows for development of tailored interventions to meet specific needs. Some questions relate to how to improved health status can lead to increased work performance.
- One-on-One Consultation: A comprehensive counseling, available to the Member and their Spouse or Registered Domestic Partners, including care, disease and case management and one-on-one lifestyle consultation.
- Biometric Screening: Biometric screenings offer valuable insight into a Member’s health risks by providing a number of biometric measures, such as weight, height, blood cholesterol levels including HDL, LDL, triglycerides and blood glucose.
- Nutritional Counseling: A comprehensive one-on-one session, available to the Member and their Spouse or Registered Domestic Partner, with a registered dietician to create a customized and personal nutrition assessment to assist the Member and/or their Spouse or Registered Domestic Partner with nutritional requirements regarding Cardiac Disease, Diabetes, Obesity, Cholesterol, Hypertension and Weight-loss.
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