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Cultivate’s chiropractic-led, data-driven wellness begins at Xymox Milwaukee facility
PALMYRA, Wis.—October 26, 2015—Cultivate by Standard Process announced its first Milwaukee client, Xymox Technologies. Xymox employees will add to the 3,000 corporate lives already under care of the first-of-its-kind, chiropractic-led corporate wellness approach.
“Cultivate outperformed all others under every criteria we explored in finding a corporate wellness partner to support the physical and financial health of Xymox,” says Bob Hartline, Xymox President and CEO. “We started searching for a wellness partner several months ago and ended up interviewing several different companies before selecting Cultivate.”
Xymox experienced what many corporations endure along the journey to corporate wellness. President and CEO Bob Hartline and Human Resources Manager Brooke Steinbrenner share their insights into the process.
“We realized when trying to do wellness ourselves—even though we had the best intentions—we don’t have the right resources,” Hartline says. “Cultivate only charges for employees who use the program. Other providers charge for all employees whether or not they participate. This tells us Cultivate puts skin in the game and is motivated to engage our employees.”
Xymox employs 90 people at its Milwaukee facility. Managing the human concerns of employees known as ‘Xymates’ rests on the shoulders of HR Manager Brooke Steinbrenner. Similar to what her peers experience, she says, there wasn’t much extra time to focus on delivering on a corporate wellness program.
“Cultivate’s chiropractor and wellness coordinator are on-site and hands-on, getting to know our employees and becoming part of our culture,” Steinbrenner says. “Our employees feel more comfortable as they get to know them personally, which will increase engagement.”
Beyond on-site chiropractic care, which she says will help ergonomics and cut down on worker compensation claims, Steinbrenner sees Cultivate’s other wellness pillars—nutrition, fitness and education—leading to improved bottom- and top-line performance across Xymox.
“Most providers we considered wanted to put employees on chemical-based diet solutions rather than change behaviors with healthy eating habits tailored to individual needs,” Steinbrenner says. “Cultivate is very accommodating, listens to our ideas and realizes not everyone can run a marathon immediately and may need to start by walking around the block.”
Working with Cultivate is like having another HR person on staff Steinbrenner says, with Hartline adding it feels more like a partnership with Cultivate versus other providers.
“The way Cultivate structures the education component allows all of our employees to attend whether or not they’re enrolled in the wellness program,” Steinbrenner says. “Employees can learn healthy grocery shopping strategies and greater food ingredient knowledge among other healthy eating habit behavior changes.”
Cultivate’s on-site chiropractic-centered wellness model delivers statistically- and clinically-significant differences in employee health factors and the reduction of long-term health risks, according to the Medical College of Wisconsin and UW-Milwaukee School of Public Health.
“We’ve seen firsthand the impact that dedicated, trained chiropractors can have being on-site as a truly integrated part of an organization’s overall wellness program,” Cultivate President Jerry Curtin says. “We offer corporations statistical proof that our corporate wellness model—partnered with key corporate functions in HR, finance and operations—delivers sustained improvement to employee health factors.”
