OhioHealth is a hospital system in central Ohio with about 12,000 employees. When Lisa Meddock joined the organization in 2004, she was surprised to find OhioHealth didn’t have a coordinated wellness program. While there were a few wellness initiatives in various locations, efforts weren’t coordinated and employee participation was low.
Meddock, OhioHealth’s manager of benefits administration, integrated all of OhioHealth’s wellness initiatives into one program, branding the new program OhioHealthy, in 2006. The following year, she consolidated OhioHealth’s three health plans into one. Meddock’s accomplishments in these initiatives has earned her EBN’s 2011 Benny Award for Benefits Leadership in Health Care.
