Mission:Health
In 2008, Raytheon introduced Mission:Health — a health engagement program created to help employees "put their health on the radar." The program was designed to:
- Improve the lives of our people
- Get employees and their families more involved in actively managing their health
- Use data and consumer marketing tools in tandem to promote behavior change
- Work closely with our health plan partners to develop a coordinated, far-reaching effort to engage employees and family members
Having healthy, productive employees is critical to business success, but employees and their families need to be motivated to increase healthy behaviors and use support programs. Mission:Health helps provide both the motivation employees need and the appropriate support.
Through the Mission:Health program in 2008, employees and their dependents received targeted home mailings with appropriate prevention messages, on-site education and prevention programs, health plan home mailings, disease management information, and access to a wealth of easy-to-use online resources. Based on aggregated data provided by our health plans, our focus for 2008-2009 is on cardiovascular disease and cancer, specifically breast and colon cancer.
A healthy work environment encourages healthy employees. In 2008, we launched the Healthy Worksite Awards program to acknowledge and reward those Raytheon worksites that actively support and improve employee health. The program encourages site leadership in implementing Raytheon wellness initiatives, fostering a culture of health and well-being, and promoting employee participation. The first-year response was overwhelming, with 26 sites applying and all receiving either an award or an honorable mention. Top honors went to the Network Centric Systems site in Fort Wayne, Indiana, winner of the first Gold award.
