Whether it’s before, during, or after welcoming a new child into their family, employees are facing new and evolving challenges during their family-building experiences. Employers are in a unique position to make a positive impact by supporting their workers’ maternal and family health with an end-to-end, personalized approach to family benefits. Maternal health support can not only help employees better navigate the family-building process, but can also contribute to a more productive, satisfied, and engaged workforce.
Embracing The Opportunity To Support Maternal Health
Maternal health outcomes are on a significant decline in the United States. According to an international study, the United States’ mortality rate is more than three times the rate of other high-income countries. The reason? Experts suggest that a lack of coordinated maternal care is a large contributor.
Employers have the opportunity to provide positive support and promote healthier outcomes for employees and their families. Facilitating coordinated care solutions can tackle gaps in care, while the inclusion of maternity support helps women with high-risk conditions, ensuring the right condition management is provided at the right time. Including these types of add-on programs in your employee benefits package can positively impact maternal health outcomes and help employees stay healthier.
Simplifying Comprehensive Maternal Support
Comprehensive support for women and men throughout their family-building journeys can make a real difference in healthy outcomes, costs, and employee experiences. Employers can engage solutions that go beyond the basics, like Anthem’s Building Healthy Families program. Building Healthy Families gives personalized, coordinated health support through 24/7 access to family care coaches, health screenings, care plans, Anthem maternity nurses, and a virtual library. Using the SydneySM Health app, your employees can also access:
- A personalized plan for behavioral health screenings before and after delivery, health-risk monitoring, and case escalation.
- Ovulation, blood pressure, and prenatal milestone trackers.
- Trackers for feeding, diapering, development, and vaccinations for each child profile.
- Customized meditation, mindfulness, and educational resources.
Extra Benefits That Deliver
Life stressors, including starting or growing a family, fertility treatments or infertility, and becoming pregnant, can impact how women and their partners show up in the workplace. Addressing employee emotional well-being overwhelmingly increases employee productivity and work performance. By leveraging an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to help boost maternal health support, employers can help employees find childcare, address financial concerns, or get emotional support during these significant life changes.
A Positive Impact For Everyone
Employees who feel supported have a higher return-to-work rate, are more productive and innovative, and are more likely to be proactive in their care — leading to healthier outcomes and reduction of avoidable costs. Choosing comprehensive maternal support solutions for your company is an impactful way to help drive positive outcomes for both employees and employers alike.
Sydney Health is offered through an arrangement with Carelon Digital Platforms, a separate company offering mobile application services on behalf of your health plan.