Lee County Government wins Aetna Workplace Well-being Award

Fort Myers, FL  – Lee County Government is proud to announce that it has been awarded the Making a Difference Gold Level Aetna Workplace Well-being Award for the second consecutive year. This award recognizes Lee County Government’s commitment to employee well-being as an employer that successfully curates programming to develop a healthier workplace for employees.

“Lee County has demonstrated an ongoing commitment to providing employees with the resources they need to help them create a healthy environment at work,” said Chairman Brian Hamman of the Lee Board of County Commissioners. “Our wellness programming continues to expand every year.” 

The program has evolved to become part of the workplace culture, engaging employees across the county with a variety of offerings. The county employs about 2,700 people spread across two dozen departments. The programming supports not only county employees, but also several constitutional entities that participate in their benefit plans for a total of over 9,500 lives across the plans.  

Efforts to provide well-being opportunities include a large annual Health Fair with over 65 benefits and well-being vendors onsite to provide a wealth of information and resources to employees. Ongoing wellness programming includes educational webinars focused on all facets of well-being, including topics on physical, mental and financial wellness. Virtual and in-person yoga and tai chi classes, group fitness/wellness challenges, access to Weight Watchers, nutritional demonstrations, disease management series, mental health and mindfulness classes are offered. Onsite mobile healthcare opportunities such as mammograms, dermatology, dental, biometrics, blood donations and vaccine clinics are also available to all employees.  

Mental health support includes access to an Employee Assistance Program with five free clinical appointments, access to affordable behavioral health options through their medical plan and onsite critical-incident assistance when needed. In response to Hurricane Ian, further offerings were developed to support employees including access to resources like the Calm app and post-trauma webinars as well as onsite counselors at our post-hurricane employee resource center. 

Physical health is supported through generous medical benefits, eliminating barriers to accessing healthcare access with zero co-pays for CVS Minute Clinics and annual physical examinations, as well as extremely low employee/spouse/dependent monthly premiums ($15 for a single employee/$160 for a family), with no annual deductibles for in-network care.  

This is the third consecutive year Lee County Government has been recognized nationally by Aetna. In 2021, the county received an Inspiring Change Bronze Workplace Well-being Award and in 2022, the Making a Difference Gold Level Award.

The Workplace Well-being award was established in 2017 and recognizes middle market, public and labor employers nationwide who offer an Aetna medical plan to employees. Award recipients are selected based on information on their well-being strategy and design, communications and organizational engagement and program implementation and evaluation.

To learn more about employment opportunities with Lee County government, visit www.leegov.com/jobs.

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