A Healthier You™ at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Blue KC) now offers Metropolitan Community College employees the opportunity to participate in a program called A Slimmer You.
What is A Slimmer You?
It is a 10-week, online program requiring approximately one-hour, per week of your time. Key features of the program include:
*Helping you develop a lifestyle of eating the foods you enjoy, while improving your health and losing weight.
*Addressing habits around eating, hunger and hydration that support weight loss or maintenance.
*Decreasing your risk for Metabolic Syndrome by addressing key risk factors – hypertension, high cholesterol and elevated blood sugar.
*Providing a holistic approach that covers, stress management, health education, exercise and fitness, and psychological and emotional fulfillment.
Who can participate?
In order to be eligible, you must be enrolled in Blue KC insurance through Metropolitan Community College. If you are interested in participating, please submit an application through www.hlcsignup.com/MCC.
Applications will be accepted from Monday, Aug. 9 through Friday, Aug. 20. Participants will be chosen based on health conditions and willingness to participate in program requirements. If you apply to participate, but change your mind, please reply and let us know before the applications closes on Friday, Aug. 20.
How much does it cost?
The program is provided at no cost (a $500 value), for accepted participants. However, if you do not complete the program as defined below (Participation Basics), we ask that you defray the costs of your participation. Therefore, if all program requirements are not met, participants will be assessed a charge of $100, deducted through payroll. By agreeing to participate, you also agree that you understand and accept this penalty.
What You Are Committing to: Participation Basics
*If you would like to participate, you must complete an application on the Internet by visiting www.hlcsignup.com/MCC by Friday, Aug. 20.
*Employees who have been selected to participate will be notified via e-mail by Wednesday, Aug. 25.
*Pre-program, fasting biometric screenings are required for program completion. If you are accepted into the program you must attend one of the annual health fair screenings being held at the MCC campuses.
*The online program will begin on Monday, Oct. 4. In order to complete program requirements you must participate in eight of 10 classes. It is best to weigh, when possible, on the same scale each time. Please ensure you have access to a scale, as you will be asked to log your weight at the beginning of every class.
*Following program completion, you must participate in a post-program, fasting biometric screening the week of Dec. 13. More information will be provided if you are accepted into the program.
NOTE: Metropolitan Community College will not have access to your personal health information. All of your health information will be submitted directly to the administrator of the program.
If you have questions about this program, please contact Jenny Edwards at jenny.edwards@mcckc.edu or 816.604.1151, option 1.
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