Live Healthy is Enterprise's new wellness initiative designed to encourage healthy lifestyles and behaviors. Whether you want to quit smoking, lose weight, exercise regularly, reduce stress or help prevent diabetes, cancer or heart failure, Live Healthy can help. Visit Spotlight on Wellness to view the health and wellness achievements of Enterprise employees.
For a look at some useful tools and resources that offer health and wellness information and can help you monitor your progress, visit the Web sites listed on the right side of this page.
You can also learn more about Enterprise's comprehensive benefits package - which includes medical, dental, prescription drugs, vision and the employee assistance program - by clicking the links to the left.
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August is Food Safety Awareness Month
Infectious diseases spread through food or beverages are a common, distressing, and sometimes life-threatening problem for millions of people in the United States and around the world. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates 76 million people suffer from foodborne illnesses each year in the United States, accounting for 325,000 hospitalizations and more than 5,000 deaths. Keep yourself and your family safe by following four steps to food safety.
1. Clean
Germs that cause foodborne illness can be spread throughout the kitchen and get onto hands from cutting boards, utensils, counter tops, and food.
- Clean hands using warm water and soap for 20 seconds before and after handling food. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol based hand gel.
- Wash cutting boards, dishes, utensils and counter tops with hot soapy water after preparing each food item and before you prepare the next food.
- Use paper towels to clean kitchen surfaces. If you use a cloth towel, wash it often using the hot cycle of your washing machine. If you use a sponge, microwave it each evening for 30 seconds or place it in the dishwasher.
- Rinse all fresh fruits and vegetables under running tap water.
2. Separate
Cross contamination occurs when bacteria spread from a food to a surface, from a surface to a food, or from one food to another.
- Separate raw meat, poultry, seafood and eggs from other foods in your grocery cart, grocery bags, and in your refrigerator.
- Use one cutting board for fresh produce and a different one for raw meat, poultry and seafood.
- Never place cooked food on a plate that previously held raw meat, poultry, seafood, or eggs.
- Don't allow juices from meat, seafood, poultry, or eggs to drip on other foods in the refrigerator.
- Never re-use marinades that were used on raw food, unless you bring them to a boil first.
3. Cook
Foods are safely cooked when they are heated for a long enough time and at a high enough temperature to kill the harmful bacteria that cause foodborne illnesses. Target temperatures vary for different foods.
- Steaks & Roasts – 145° F
- Fish – 145° F
- Pork – 160° F
- Ground Beef – 160° F
- Egg Dishes – 160° F
- Chicken Breasts – 170° F
- Whole Poultry – 180° F
4. Chill
Cold temperatures slow the growth of harmful bacteria. Do not overstuff the refrigerator, as cold air must circulate to help keep food safe.
- Keep refrigerator at a constant temperature of 40° F or below.
- Keep your freezer temperature at 0° F or below.
- Plan when you shop. Buy perishable foods such as dairy products, fresh meat, and hot cooked foods at the end of your shopping trip. Refrigerate foods as soon as you get home. Don't leave perishable foods out for more than two hours.
- Store leftovers properly
If you think you have eaten contaminated food, your local Poison Control Center can answer questions and provide information on what to do next. Poison Control Centers are usually listed with other emergency numbers in your telephone book.
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Health Assessments
Conduct your own health assessment to identify areas in your life that you can improve and reveal any health-risk factors you might face.
UnitedHealthcare – Log in / Health Topics and Tools / Assess and Improve Your Health
Annual Check-Ups or Physicals
Preventive care is important – and recommended. Regular blood pressure screenings, cholesterol checks, glucose monitoring (for diabetes) and cancer screenings are common ways to keep a check on your health.
U.S. employees enrolled in PPO300 or PPO600 plans are eligible for the $350 Wellness benefit. Visit a participating in-network PPO provider, pay the office visit copay and services and supplies provided during the visit that are not covered by the copay will be applied to your $350 wellness benefit. Routine preventive care over $350 is covered, less deductible and coinsurance amounts.
U.S. employees enrolled in the EPO plan have unlimited wellness visits paid at 100 percent after the office visit copay.
To find a doctor:
Dental and Vision Care
And don't forget regular check ups for dental and eye care. Prevention and early treatment is always the best way to maintain healthy teeth and eyes.
To find a dentist:
Vision benefits are available through UnitedHealthcare or EyeMed Vision Care.
To find an eye doctor:
Tip Sheet
Proper nutrition, exercise and getting enough sleep are important factors in improving overall wellness. Find wellness tip sheets on these topics and many others on the Magellan LifeManagement Web site. Log on and click the Library and Resources icon and then search the Library Catalog by the first letter of the topic. For example, look under "f" for fitness information, "n" for nutrition or "h" for health.
Leading a healthier lifestyle doesn't have to be hard. Just a few simple changes can help increase life span, lower your risk of disease and help build a stronger immune system.
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