The Virginia Business Coalition on Health is proud to offer as a member benefit the Virginia Health Strategies Project (VHSP) as part of the American Health Strategy Project (AHSP).

 

The VHSP empowers employers to leverage existing data to support their health strategy and drive decision-making that promotes prevention, eliminates barriers and encourages use of evidence-based healthcare.

CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE AHSP/VHSP PUBLIC SITE

This site houses a catalog of American Health Strategy Project tools and materials, presentations, peer sharing, and best practices that support employee health and stabilize health cost trends.

 

Click Here to download the Employer Memo of Understanding

Click Here to read the VBCH Press Release

Click Here to read the Data Use Statement

 

WHAT IS IT? 

The Virginia Health Strategy Project model empowers employers to leverage existing health data resources to support their health strategy and drive decision-making around health and wellness offerings using evidence-based healthcare principles.  The ideal employer for this model is one that:

• Views benefits as an investment and is not purely interested in cost cutting;
• Understands the value of minimizing health risks, and the importance and value of employees improving or at least maintaining their health;
• Is willing to put incentives in place to promote healthy lifestyles and provide prevention to those with risks but who have not yet developed disease.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

The Virginia Health Strategy Project model provides a framework supported by tools and resources for employers, thought leaders, analytical and technical experts to collaborate, analyze data and the health issues of employers. Based on the analysis, the collaborators use value based benefits principles that align incentives and remove barriers to influence healthcare decisions by consumers, providers, purchasers and payers.

 

WHY DOES IT MATTER?

The Virginia Health Strategy Project model supports employers in developing, implementing and maintaining a health strategy that improves the health of employees and stabilizes healthcare cost trends.

 

EMPLOYERS ENROLLED - National (partial) and Local:

Ace Hardware Corporation; Archon Group; Blount International, Inc.; Bon Secours Health System-Virginia; Brinker International; Chesapeake Public Schools; Chesapeake Regional Medical Center; City of Corvallis; City of Eugene; City of Gary; City of McKinney; City of Mesquite; City County Insurance Services; City of Norfolk; Clackamas County; The Collins Companies; Edward Health Services Corp.; Energy Future Holdings; Evraz Inc., NA,; Hospira, Inc.; Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; Haggar Clothing Co.; Interstate Batteries, Inc.; Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago; Lane Transit District; Legacy Health System; Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council; Norfolk Southern Corporation; Oregon Health Sciences University; Portland General Electric; Rush University Medical Center; SAIF Corporation; Sentara Healthcare; Triumph Aerostructures; University of Chicago; and Wolters Kluwer.