Are you looking for a way to talk to employees about wellness topics and making health care decisions?

Check out the BlueResource communication program from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois. You'll find electronic files of member-targeted messages and artwork that you can use to create or supplement your company's employee health care communications.

• Healthy Tips that provide practical information for eating healthier, increasing physical activity and using sunscreen, as well as other helpful recommendations

• Fit for Work helps employees maximize their productivity through ergonomics, proper lifting techniques, stress management and more

• Online Resources encourages employees to use our online tools and resources, such as Health Risk Assessments, the Personal Health Manager and Blue Points^SM

• Health Screenings provides information on screenings for diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol, depression, and prostate, skin and colon cancer.

• Health and Wellness provides information and resources that can help fight childhood obesity, lose weight, reduce stress, deal with depression, avoid back injuries and stop smoking.

• Health Observances This BlueResource edition offers a year-long wellness communications campaign that targets specific health observances coordinated by the National Health Information Center.

• Preventive Health offers suggestions for preventing allergies, diabetes, heart disease, infectious diseases and other health conditions.

• Weight Loss can help your employees adopt a healthy lifestyle by following the Don't Weight to Feel Great Program.

• Worksite Wellness and Health Fair Toolkit includes guidance, tools and resources to plan, implement and evaluate employee wellness initiatives.

View the materials you may want to incorporate into your communications plan by clicking through the booklets to the right. You can access each electronic file from categories in the Topics section above.

You can distribute the files electronically, cut and paste copy from the Word documents to add to your existing company communications or print from the PDFs. It's your choice.

Add your logo to the materials
Would you like to co-brand the posters, postcards, paycheck stuffers, brochures or fliers with your group's logo? Just contact your BCBSIL representative to have your logo added to the files and returned to you - ready to go!

It's all part of our service to our employer groups - at no additional cost - because communication is the key to improving plan utilization, bettering employees' health and reducing health care costs for everyone.