Space Filling Up Fast for Free, On-Site Health Screenings

Earning $100 through the County’s Employee Health and Wellness Incentive Program is about to get even easier. But space is booking up fast.

Starting Monday, employees can start to qualify for the incentive by visiting a Kaiser Permanente mobile health van at one of nine County office locations. There, employees can get FREE health screenings to test their blood pressure, glucose levels, body mass index and height and waist measurements.

Employees just need to complete the screening, get a doctor’s signature and send a confirmation form to Human Resources’ Benefits Department. Then, they can go to their health care provider’s website and fill out a Health Risk Assessment. For more detailed instructions and the required paperwork, visit InSite’s Employee Health and Wellness Incentive Program web page.

The mobile vans will make a series of visits to County offices from March 11 to 29. For details on when and where they will stop, check out the schedule.

Appointments are going fast in some locations. As of earlier this week, 100 percent of appointments were reserved at the County Operations Center and Duffy Administration Center, but some walk in appointments will still be available with a County ID. Appointments were still available at the HHSA-South Region office in Chula Vista, North Inland Regional Center in Escondido, Edgemoor Hospital in Santee, East County Regional Center in El Cajon and North County Regional Center in Vista. Appointments at the Health Services Complex on Rosecrans in San Diego were almost all booked.

To sign up, employees can call Kaiser Permanente at 619-641-4536 between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Employees can use County time for a health screening in the mobile van, subject to their supervisor’s approval.

Screening results will be confidential.    

The County is not seeking individual data on employees. Rather, Kaiser Permanente will compile results they receive and send them to the County in the aggregate form. The County will use the data to get a better sense of which health issues employees are facing as a whole, in order to craft the most effective employee wellness health outreach programs and activities.

For more information, visit the Employee Health and Wellness Incentive Program web page or contact HR's Employee Benefits Division at 888-550-2203.