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The Wellness Inventory may be licensed by hospitals and healthcare organizations to promote wellness in the community, to use as a marketing tool to increase patient outreach and patient retention, to gather valuable demographic data to aid in creating wellness and health education programs targeted to community needs, and to utilize as a cornerstone of the employee wellness program.
Teaching Patients to Be Well
According to Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, the primary role of the physician is as educator. However, in the fast-paced 21st century, our health care system rarely provides physicians with time and expertise to devote to educating their patients in living a healthy lifestyle.
Thirty years ago a young intern at Johns Hopkins had a flash of inspiration that would come to have a major impact on this problem. Dr. John W. Travis realized he wanted to dedicate his life not to treating patients, but teaching people to be well. He subsequently helped to pioneer the modern wellness movement, opening the first wellness center in America in 1975, and creating the first wellness assessment—the Wellness Inventory.
Wellness Inventory is a "whole person" assessment program designed to help patients gain personal insight into their state of physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness.The program offers guidance and tools to transform this new awareness into lasting changes in their lives, and a renewed sense of health and wellbeing. And best of all, the program can be taken in the comfort of the patient's own home and you will have access to their scores (with their permission).
Benefits to Your Members/Clients:
- Assessing their current level of "whole person" wellness.
- Determining the areas of their life they want to improve.
- Creating a personalized Wellness Action Plan to meet their specific goals.
- Resources to assist in meeting their goals.
- Email reminders motivate adherence to Wellness goals.
- Improved patient health and wellbeing.
For more on the program's patient features, view User Tour and Features & Benefits.
Overall Benefits for Your Organization:
- Improved member/client health and wellbeing.
- Enhanced member/client satisfaction.
- Provides direct feedback on the needs of specific demographic groups through customized group reporting.
- Assists in designing customized programs, services and classes to meet the needs of specific demographic segments.
Wellness Program Management Tools
The Wellness Inventory provides hospitals and healthcare organizations with tools to empower you in working with their patients. Practitioners will have access to reporting, coaching, communicaion and marketing tools to act as the foundation of a community wellness program, facilitate group reports of specific demographic profiles, as well as one-on-one coaching, education, and strengthening of your relationship with your patients and community. The suite of tools also has a Help Desk Feature to explain how each tool works.
Individual Client Reports: Administrative access to individual client assessment results and wellness plans. Test comparison and note-taking features included. Facilitates 1-on-1 wellness coaching.
Group Demographic Reports: Licensees are able to run demographic group reporting on 8 demographic variables for the Wellness Scores and Satisfaction Scores in the 12 sections of the assesment. Reports may be performed on both single demographic variables and multiple demographic variables.
Customized Resource Centers: Full online editing capability to customize the 12 Wellness Resource Centers with your organizations services, classes, and products (Optional premium service).
Email Broadcaster: This feature allows you to maintain ongoing contact with your patients or clients who have taken the Wellness Inventory by sending email weekly wellness tips, wellness newsletters, spa specials, product offerings and other promotions from your spa (Optional premium service).
Quick Tour of the Wellness Program Management Tools.
Wellness Coaching
A wellness coach who is proficient in using the Wellness Inventory can bring a new dimension of wellness to your practice. A wellness coach can use their skill-set to maximize the effectiveness of the Wellness Inventory in helping your patients achieve their goals and create significant lifestyle changes in their lives. Wellness coaching creates a new profit center for your practice while providing the essential service of lifestyle and wellness support for your patients.
Wellness coaching can be implemented by a staff member (Nurse, PA, etc.) who has gone through our certification training or a wellness coach training or a certified wellness coach that you bring into your practice. Coaching can be delivered to patients in person or by phone.Wellness coaching can serve three important functions for your office:
Assisting your patients in implementing your "lifestyle prescriptions".
Increasing compliance among your patients.
Creating personalized wellness programs for your patients and helping them to create desired lifestyle changes.
Certification Training
We offer a Wellness Inventory Certification Training via 12 week tele-classes or weekend intensives held in Asheville, North Carolina. The Certification Training provides in-depth personal experience and practical knowledge of the Wellness Inventory assessment and personal growth process. It also provides a unique coaching skill-set to maximize the program's effectiveness in creating change in your patients' lives. The goal of the course is to create competence in delivering the program to both individual and groups.
You may prefer to have a member of your staff certified or to bring in a certified wellness coach to work with your patients.
More on Certification Training Teleclasses and Intensive Trainings.
Background of the Program - Teaching People to Be Well
The Wellness Inventory is based on the pioneering work of John W. Travis, MD, MPH, recognized as a founder of the wellness movement. Dr. Travis was a protégé of Dr. Louis Robbins, creator of the Health Risk Appraisal, while a resident at John's Hopkins and working with the US Public Health Service. In the early 1970s influenced by the pioneering work of Abraham Maslow and his concept of self-actualization, and other early leaders in the human potential movement, he decided to dedicate his life to "teaching people to be well" rather than treating patients.
He opened the first wellness center in the US in 1975) and created the first wellness assessment (Wellness Inventory) as the intake for the center. The work at his wellness center was based on a forerunner of the coaching model, in which the client was the expert in his/her own life and had a co-creative relationship with the center's wellness facilitators. Dr. Travis authored the classic Wellness Workbook (Celestial Arts, 1981, 2004, 3rd Ed) which has been used by wellness and health promotion educators in universities for 25 years.
Privacy & Flexibility for your Patient
Patient can complete the assessment in more than one sitting. They simply save results and login later to resume where they left off. Patient privacy is secure.
Technical Support:
The administrative wellness program management tools each have "Help Desk" feature to explain each of the tools We offer flexible IT support packages, and can host a private label version of the Wellness Inventory on our server.
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WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING....
"This pioneering program gives individuals personal insight into 12 dimensions of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness, and provides tools to transform this new awareness into lasting lifestyle change and a heightened sense of health and wellbeing. An invaluable program for health professionals, clinics and hospitals, the Wellness Inventory is a powerful tool for 21st century integrative medicine."
Larry Dossey, MD
Author, Healing Beyond the Body, and Healing Words.
Executive Editor, Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
"The Wellness Inventory is the fundamental component to our hospital's 7-Step Health and Wellness program. Dr. John Travis’ 12 key dimensions of wellness create a holistic foundation from which our clients not only explore the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual issues of life, but more importantly discover ways in which to become responsible for their own health."
Patricia A. Duryea, Ph.D.
Principal, Duryea & Associates
"The Wellness Inventory pushes beyond health risk appraisals to the wellness dimension of the illness-wellness continuum. This self-assessment tool offers new insights into what makes life worth living.....The Wellness Inventory puts the health back into health care."
Kent W. Peterson, MD, FACPM
Former director, American College of Preventive Medicine
Past president, American College of Occupational & Environmental Med.
Corporate manager, preventive & environmental medicine, IBM worldwide
"The Wellness Inventory is a refreshing approach after years of "strictly by
the numbers" HRAs that tell you how old you ought to be or why you are not
already dead. Intuitive in its approach, the Wellness Inventory results seem to have a knack
for describing the strengths and weaknesses of the participant in a way that
is both informative and educational. The Wellness Inventory provides a valuable tool for better living."
William Thar, MD, MPH
VP of Research and Analysis
Franklin Health, Inc.
"I've been familiar with the Wellness Inventory and the work of John Travis for many years, and have found it to be enormously helpful. I've seen the Inventory open up new understandings and stimulate creative therapeutic responses for people with a wide range of clinical conditions. The Inventory also helps those who are still well to develop strategies for feeling even better. I highly recommend this program."
James S. Gordon, MD
Founder and Director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine
Author of Manifesto for a New Medicine
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For more information on licensing and pricing, contact:
James Strohecker
President
HealthWorld Online, Inc.
(310) 823-9553
jim@healthy.net
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