She was diagnosed with essential hypertension as a teenager. She’d rather read or watch TV than exercise. She doesn’t have time to cook, so she’ll pick something up for dinner. A pizza. Wings. Chinese. Most nights she watches her shows and enjoys a bag of chips with ranch dip.

Her blood pressure reads 170/110. She’s a prime candidate for a heart attack, stroke or kidney disease.

She needs more than a visit to the annual health fair to control her high blood pressure

Almost 33% of your workforce has high blood pressure. Diet, lack of exercise, obesity and heredity can all contribute to this disease. Left untreated, hypertension is a leading risk factor for chronic kidney disease, ischemic stroke, atherosclerosis, congestive heart failure and heart attacks.

OnSite Health nurse practitioners can diagnose and treat hypertension, then monitor employee health with regular blood pressure checks. We can prescribe high-value generic drugs to control blood pressure, with lifestyle recommendations that drive substantial reductions in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure (these include regular exercise, losing weight and dietary changes—less red meat and salt, more fish, chicken, whole grains, fruits and vegetables). If your employees smoke, we can help them quit. If they’re diabetic as well as hypertensive, we can help them control their blood sugar along with their blood pressure.

Workplace healthcare is proven to help employees manage chronic health conditions and maintain better overall health, while reducing the time spent away from the job visiting urgent care centers and emergency rooms (productivity losses related to personal and family health problems cost U.S. employers $1,685 per employee per year, or $674,000 for 400 employees per year). It’s especially useful for the management of hypertension, as regular blood pressure checks are essential for measuring progress and supporting compliance with clinical recommendations for medications, weight loss and lifestyle changes. Our workplace healthcare model supports compliance, offering the convenience of being onsite and reducing the time employees would otherwise require for offsite treatment for out-of-control blood pressure.

Lower systolic and diastolic readings — lower risk of stroke, kidney disease and heart disease, for lower healthcare costs

The charts to the right show the improved systolic readings for an actual OnSite Health client. Note the dramatic decreases from highest readings to most recent readings. Overall, our clients’ employees record consistent improvement. The percent of systolic readings below 130 mm Hg increases, as does the percent of diastolic readings below 80.
 

50% decrease in strokes saves $830,336 in medical expenses

Maintaining control of hypertension with frequent monitoring onsite is less expensive than treating the results of uncontrolled hypertension offsite (in addition, the average cost of generic drugs is $9.74, versus $90.39 for preferred drugs). We can show you the documented savings with regular checkups and generic prescription drugs versus the projected costs of treating heart attacks, strokes or chronic kidney disease. If 14 of 400 employees have a stroke, it costs your company $1,960,672 in medical expenses and five of those employees will be permanently disabled.