(Wilmington, Del. – Sept. 2, 2020)

For the fourth year in a row, ChristianaCare, Union Hospital has earned the Gold Level award from Healthiest Maryland Businesses for its Work on Wellness program for its employees. Healthiest Maryland Businesses is a collaboration of Maryland businesses that seeks to improve health through worksite wellness efforts.

“Receiving this award for four straight years underscores our sincere commitment to the health of our caregivers,” said Neil Jasani, M.D., MBA, FACEP, chief people officer at ChristianaCare. “By investing in wellness, we are helping our caregivers make positive changes in their lives that will not only benefit them, but also our community. It is extremely rewarding to witness the remarkable impact this program has had within our organization, and we will continue to support a culture of wellness in the workplace.”

The Healthiest Maryland Businesses Wellness at Work Awards Program highlights wellness initiatives that meet the components of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Workplace Health Model. These include performing a workplace health assessment, planning and implementing the program and program evaluation.

The Work on Wellness award-winning program at Union Hospital includes:

• An on-site fitness center with showers.
• A lactation lounge for breastfeeding mothers.
• Dedicated resources with a budget and staff support.
• Promotion of healthy choices through policies and workplace culture.
• Leadership support for the program.

Union Hospital joined ChristianaCare in January 2020. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, caregivers at Union Hospital have participated in ChristianaCare’s wide range of programs to support caregivers including prepaid childcare services, paid lodging for caregivers unable to self-isolate at home safely and allowing caregivers to work from home when possible. ChristianaCare’s Center for WorkLife Wellbeing provided peer support and virtual access to a wellbeing psychologist as well as programs to help caregivers maintain healthy habits including exercise, mindfulness meditation and sleep.

To learn more about the Healthiest Maryland Businesses Collaborative and to view the list of award winners, visit the awards website.

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About ChristianaCare

Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, ChristianaCare is one of the country’s most dynamic health care organizations, centered on improving health outcomes, making high-quality care more accessible and lowering health care costs. ChristianaCare includes an extensive network of primary care and outpatient services, home health care, urgent care centers, three hospitals (1,430 beds), a freestanding emergency department, a Level I trauma center and a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, a comprehensive stroke center and regional centers of excellence in heart and vascular care, cancer care and women’s health. It also includes the pioneering Gene Editing Institute.

ChristianaCare is nationally recognized as a great place to work, rated by Forbes as the 2nd best health system for diversity and inclusion, and the 29th best health system to work for in the United States, and by IDG Computerworld as one of the nation’s Best Places to Work in IT. ChristianaCare is rated by Healthgrades as one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals and continually ranked among the nation’s best by U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek and other national quality ratings. ChristianaCare is a nonprofit teaching health system with more than 260 residents and fellows. With its groundbreaking Center for Virtual Health and a focus on population health and value-based care, ChristianaCare is shaping the future of health care.

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