Together, we can keep your team at work
Working with WellAware means working with an experienced partner to provide your team with excellent health management.
With a passion for people and wellness, our founder Jessica serves a vital role in providing health management for patients and their families.
Jessica graduated from Furman University with a bachelor’s degree in Health and Exercise Science before completing her bachelor’s of Nursing degree from the Medical University of South Carolina. In addition, she holds a Master’s in Nursing Education and is a Certified Diabetes Educator. Jessica specialized in cardiovascular disease prevention, case management, and patient satisfaction in her nursing role with the Greenville Hospital System. She then served as the Clinical Director of Preserve Health.
Jessica founded WellAware after realizing the opportunity to improve care for patients with chronic diseases through health management. She combines her experience with health and exercise science, cardiovascular nursing, and patient care management, to serve as a multidisciplinary leader. Jessica is dedicated to helping individuals and employers manage, improve, and prevent chronic disease and its costs.
JESSICA SHUFORD, MSN, RN, CDCES
CEO and Clinical Nurse Educator
The Need for Health Management
Chronic diseases are the most common and costly of all health problems, but they are also the most preventable.
Health Management is an approach to patient care that seeks to limit preventable events by maximizing patient adherence to prescribed treatments and to health-promoting behaviors.
The need for health management has never been greater. Although only 15 to 20 percent of the population has one or more chronic medical conditions, this segment of the workforce accounts for a majority of health care costs. Not included in that large amount are the indirect costs of absenteeism, declines in productivity, worker's compensation, training, and replacement expenses that are estimated to be three times the direct costs. These human and economic costs may only get worse as greater numbers of baby boomers reach 50-plus years—the age when most people develop at least one chronic condition.
Be WellAware
Working with WellAware means working with an experienced partner to provide your team with excellent health management. Our Health Management program is based on skilled nurse educators delivering evidence-based information individually to plan members. As a result, plan members’ compliance with their treatment plans improves, and so do your employer savings.
We believe that developing a personal relationship with each participant is vital to the success of the program. That's why each time a participant has an interaction with WellAware, it is with the same nurse—someone who is familiar with his or her complete health history and life situations.
The time to save money is before you spend it. If your associates get the right care, at the right time, in the right place, they will not only feel better, you will save money. It’s a win-win for plan members and plan sponsors.
The Numbers
In the United States, total spending on health care amounted to approximately $2 trillion in the past year. Of that amount, more than 75% went toward the treatment of more chronic medical conditions, this segment of the workforce accounts for a majority of health care costs.
Health care coverage costs for people with a chronic condition average $6,032 annually - five times higher than those without a chronic condition.
Health premiums for employer-sponsored family coverage have increased by 87% in the past decade.
About 133 million Americans - 45% of the population - live with at least one chronic disease.
