Dear Lee County employees enrolled in the County Health Plan:

As healthcare costs to continue to increase, we are focusing on prevention and healthy lifestyle choices. We are pleased to offer Simple Steps To A Healthier Life^®, a personalized online health and wellness program to help you discover convenient ways to achieve a healthier, more balanced life. It can help you eat better, lose weight, get in shape, relieve stress and more – in simple steps, at your own pace. Simple Steps To A Healthier Life^® is convenient, confidential and can be accessed from home or work. Best of all, it's offered at no cost to you.

1. Start with an Online Health Assessment

The online Health Assessment is a confidential questionnaire that can help you identify some of your health needs. You will be asked to provide information about your health habits and family health history to get a personalized status of your current state of health. You will need to know your height, weight, blood pressure, blood cholesterol and blood glucose numbers. You should schedule your annual physical and make sure your doctor orders these tests. This will enable you to answer the questions on the health assessment accurately. When you go for your annual physical it is also a good time to discuss other regular screenings and exams that you need. Refer to the Screening Guidelines for Men or Women on the County's Benefits website for more information.

2. View your Personalized Health Reports and Action Plan

After you complete the assessment, you will receive easy-to-understand Health Reports and a one-page Health Summary. You can print the Health Summary report and share it with your doctor.

You will also receive a personalized Action Plan with a combination of online Healthy Living Programs that have been recommended based on your health risks. Available programs include nutrition, fitness, weight loss, disease-fighting, smoking cessation, and healthy aging. Each four- to six-week Healthy Living Program includes interactive tools such as a Fitness Planner, Diet Manager, Healthy Shopping List and more to help you reach your health goals in a fun and enjoyable way.

3. Select the Programs, Tools and Information that are Right for You

Simple Steps To A Healthier Life^® gives you guidance and support to help you make healthy changes or maintain your current health. Best of all, you can tailor your program to fit your lifestyle and interests by selecting the resources that work best for you.

Take the first step to healthier living. Complete the online Health Assessment! www.simplestepslife.com

Stay Healthy!

Heather Kearns, Employee Wellness Coordinator, Lee County Employee Benefits

The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they'll ease
Your will they'll mend
And charge you not a shilling.
~Nursery rhyme quoted by Wayne Fields, What the River Knows, 1990