How Much is Diabetes Costing Your Business?

Despite the trillions spent on health care, dieting, and disease management programs, the sad truth is that diabetes and other chronic diseases are out of control. If you don’t believe that most programs for weight loss and diabetes management are not effective, check out the statistics. They say it all.

  • Over 23 million Americans have diabetes (most of them Type 2) and 57 million Americans are now considered to have ‘borderline’ diabetes or prediabetes.
  • Almost 6 million people have diabetes and don’t even know it!
  • One in 5 Americans is at risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes.
  • The annual cost to treat diabetes in the US is estimated to be over $116 billion.
  • The combined annual cost to treat the disease, direct costs ($116 billion – health costs, workers compensation, disability costs and drug costs) and indirect costs ($58 billion in indirect costs – lost productivity, absenteeism, disability and premature mortality) is estimated to be $174 billion.
  • On average, persons with diabetes ages 18-64 lost 8.3 days per year from work.
  • Annual health care costs for people with diabetes are about $13,243/per person vs $2,560 for someone without diabetes.

How much are diabetes and diabetes-related issues costing your organization?

  • People with diagnosed diabetes, have average expenditures of $11,744 per year of which $6,649 is attributed to diabetes.
  • People with diagnosed diabetes, on average, have medical expenditures that are 2.3 times higher than expenditures would be in the absence of diabetes

This data is based on a study for the American Diabetes Association. (American Diabetes Association Economic Costs of Diabetes in the US in 2007, Diabetes Care, 31: 596-615, 2008).


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Diabetes is a serious disease, which is why I’m serious about helping your organization manage your diabetes related costs by educating your employees on simple ways to control the disease. Learning to control diabetes is as important as learning how to prevent it.

Introducing the ‘Healthy Diabetes Coach’ Program

Who is this program designed for?

  • You have employees who have been diagnosed with diabetes or prediabetes.
  • You have employees who are afraid of developing, or have diabetes related complications.
  • Your company would like to reduce health costs and the costs of chronic diseases.
  • Your company would like to reduce and prevent diabetes related hospitalizations.
  • Your company would like to reduce absenteeism.
  • Your company would like to reduce employee turnover, retain valued staff, and reduce the costs of recruitment and training.
  • Your company would like to improve productivity and morale.

If you relate to any of the above, then the ‘Healthy Diabetes Coach’ Program is for YOUR ORGANIZATION!

Meet Nancy Heinrich – the ‘Healthy Diabetes Coach’.

Hi, I’m working to make a difference in diabetes, prediabetes, and obesity. We can get to healthier weights, control diabetes, and stop prediabetes from progressing to diabetes when we make smart choices and simple changes in our daily lives. I work with thousands of people just like you, teaching what it means to eat healthy foods, balanced meals and snacks, so their blood sugars – and their weights, their blood pressures, and their cholesterol – get to their target goals and stay there.

Who is Nancy Heinrich?

Nancy L. Heinrich, M.P.H. is a teacher, author, and epidemiologist who inspires, motivates, and educates individuals to enjoy healthier lives. She uses her experience in tracking and controlling communicable diseases to focus on controlling and preventing diabetes and obesity. Her extensive public health background includes communicable disease control work in HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases, and hepatitis. Nancy is a member of the American Public Health Association and the American Association of Diabetes Educators.

She is the founder of Growing Healthy Kids, Inc., a charitable organization dedicated to using innovative garden-based education for young children to help halt and reverse the childhood obesity challenge facing American families today. Her first love, however, is empowering, educating and coaching people with diabetes to better health and better lives.

She is also the author of ‘Healthy Living with Diabetes: One Small Step at a Time’ and the creator of the ‘Healthy Living, Healthy Eating, Healthy Diabetes’ video.

Nancy can be YOUR ‘Healthy Diabetes Coach’ !!!

Testimonial
“Nancy will lead your team to identify target populations and interventions to manage.  With her on your Wellness Team, you can manage and/or reduce direct and indirect expenses for employees with diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, and smokers.”

- Attendee at one of Nancy’s 2010 workshops at Indian River State College

The ‘Healthy Diabetes Coach’ Program

The ‘Healthy Diabetes Coach’ program is a step-by-step, 8 week intensive, inter-active coaching program delivered via the internet. The course is delivered every 7 days in bite-sized portions so your employees will actually implement what they learn and get results!

Each module in the Quick Start Program includes:

  1. Video presenting the lesson in that module.
  2. Weekly Health Tip in downloadable PDF format.
  3. Review questions to make sure the student understands the lesson.
  4. Goal Setting – reminder to set 1 weekly goal to get results (and specific examples to model).
  5. Resources, including favorite recipes from ‘Nancy’s Healthy Cooking for Your Health Classes’.

Here’s a sneak peak into what your employees will learn in the ‘Keys to Control’ Quick Start Modules.

  • Module  1: Key 1: Build a Strong Foundation.
  • Module 2: Key 2: Learn Your ABCs.
  • Module 3: Key 3:  Healthy Eating for Life.
  • Module 4: Key 4:  Master the Carbs.
  • Module 5: Key 5: Controlling Your Blood Pressure.
  • Module 6: Key 6: Good Fats are Good for you – and your cholesterol.
  • Module 7: Key 7: A healthy weight the key to controlling your blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol.
  • Module 8: Wrapping it all together.

The 8 module Quick Start Program is followed up with 18 weeks of updates, recipes, and resources by email to help keep students on track. This makes the program a full 6 months of coaching and support.

Each program module easily fits into a half-hour lunch period at work or can be delivered to their home computer, depending on your employees’ needs. We will customize a program for you and your organization.

We simply want to be able to put this life changing knowledge in the hands of as many people as possible. We have an epidemic which is threatening our country, our children, everyone, our very way of life ……..  and we want to make a difference ……….

Join us now and take the first step to help your employees make the simple changes and get a grip on diabetes and diabetes related costs.

Now your business can have Nancy and the ‘Healthy Diabetes Coach’ Program on your wellness team.

How much would taking control of diabetes related health costs be worth to your organization?

Call us now to see how we will customize a program for you and your organization. Please contact us by phone at (772) 770 0297, or via our website ‘Contact Us’ page.

Let us help you reduce your health costs, and help your employees become more healthy and productive.

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Testimonial:
“Nancy
I love the energy and enthusiasm you bring to the classes!  Your passion for health not only with eating but awareness shines through!  Your recipes are not complicated, making them easy to prepare and fast.  We all know in this day and age that time is short so something easy, time saving and healthy will be appealing!  Can’t wait for your next one!”
Lisa Brown

Testimonial:
“Nancy’s lecture on making healthy eating choices has been a wonderful addition to my nursing course material. It adds to the students’ knowledge of diabetes, and cardiovascular health. Her visual demonstration using table sugar, and discussion of fiber content in foods is very powerful. Students have stated, “I’ve never had anyone explain, in easy to understand language, how I could help myself and my patients make small eating changes that could improve my overall health”.
Lisa Smith MSN/ED, RN, CNE
Assistant Professor, Nursing
Indian River State College
Ft. Pierce, Florida

Testimonial:

“The food quality and taste for all the dishes prepared by Nancy are impeccable!  Upon first taste I couldn’t believe how healthy it all was, that was until I spent a few weeks working with Nancy.  We’ve cooked together and I must say she practices what she preaches.  The lessons taught by Nancy cannot only be replicated with ease globally, they are a way of life for her.  She truly is a Master of her trade.”
Jerry “The Brain Guy” Christensen
Brain Shift Technologies
Visionary, Founder

Testimonial:

“In today’s world our children are faced with many choices, among them is eating right.
This can be simple according to the most informative talk I attended given by Nancy Heinrich.
She conveys the ways of food and nutrition for all of us; young and old to totally understand.
We all need to listen to Nancy because it is ‘Time to eat right today, for a healthy tomorrow’.”
Dean Sfikas
Video Production Expert

Testimonial:

“I was blown away by what I learned from Nancy’s lecture. I thought that I had a good handle on eating well for health, and to prevent chronic disease problems. I was wrong.
What I learned will change the way our family eats. Nancy made the process very simple.
Thanks you Nancy.”
Michael Conway
www.mikeswatertips.com

Testimonial:
“I am thrilled with the practical and easy to understand language that Nancy uses to make this such a useful and easy resource. Even the small size of the book lends to its infinite utility. Because of this, one can literally carry it around for reference while going about ones daily tasks. One does not simply read a book at night, sleep on it and wake a changed person. Rather, life change is a process that takes time, study, and constant reminder to be successful. It is my hope that readers will carry this book on their person, refer to it often, ponder its contents, and make the changes needed to get the proper nutrition so that they can ultimately live longer and happier lives.”
Manny Aragon
The Rolf Workshop Center For Integrated Health

http://www.therolfworkshop.com

Testimonial:
“Nancy Heinrich has captured the essence of healthy living with diabetes in her beautifully written, informative book.  The advice is simple, accurate, and encompasses the types of health behavior models that work.  I highly recommend it for people with diabetes, their families and friends or anyone interested in learning more about how to live well in general.”
Anita B. Lasswell, Ph.D, R.D., L.D.N.
President, Creative Nutrition Consulting
Vero Beach, Florida

Warning:

PLEASE NOTE: The ‘Healthy Diabetes Coach’ program is not a replacement for medical care! If you have been diagnosed with diabetes or prediabetes and are working with a medical or healthcare provider, our role is to complement that care with guidance, motivation, and practical resources.

Diabetes and prediabetes are serious medical conditions. You should not change any recommendations or medications without first consulting your physician. It is possible that during the program, you find that your physical state has improved so much that you could reduce your medications, but you should ALWAYS consult with your physician, before changing your medications.

Medical Disclaimer:

The information on this website is not intended to replace a one-on-one relationship with a qualified health care professional and is not intended as medical advice. You need to make your own health care decisions based upon your research and in partnership with a qualified health care professional.