Workplace well-being services
As a leader in health and wellness in Manitoba, we are pleased to offer you a suite of workplace well-being services to support you and your employees in fostering a healthier, more productive workplace.
Whether you know exactly what you are looking for or you need a little help, simply contact us, and we’ll get you started.
Program overview
We offer a range of workplace well-being services that can be tailor-made to support your organization and employees. All program elements are available on a fee-for-service basis to all Manitoba companies. You do not need a Manitoba Blue Cross employer plan to access these services.
Services
Mental health support: We offer a variety of training programs and digital resources to support your leaders and employees in recognizing, understanding and responding to various stressors and wellness challenges.
Workshops and seminars: We run a variety of workshops and seminars for both leaders and employees. Topics include diversity and cultural awareness, personal and workplace well-being, finance, caregiver support, nutrition and more. View current workshops and seminars.
Addictions management program: Through group and individual counselling, the program teaches and encourages overall psychological wellness to support recovery. All services are led by a multidisciplinary team of professional addictions specialists.
Critical incident/Trauma response: We provide various trauma response services to mitigate risks to employee health during and in the immediate aftermath of an incident. We will conduct an initial assessment and collaborate to ensure our interventions both maximize the therapeutic benefit to employees and is fitting to your organizational culture.
Serious illness, grief and loss in the workplace: We provide consultation, response planning and group debriefings to support work groups impacted by the serious illness or loss of a colleague.
Stand-by services: We provide stand-by services and on-site support to assist you in mitigating potential risks and managing the impacts of personal or organizational events that may adversely affect your employees.
We offer a comprehensive organizational wellness assessment that will calculate your company and team’s well-being to help you determine the effectiveness of your current workplace wellness solutions and support you as you further develop your wellness strategy. By focusing equally on the well-being of employees and key performance indicators, we can help you rank, compare, contrast and correlate individual variables to quantifiable business outcomes.
Disability claims adjudication: We can make eligibility decisions for your self-funded income replacement plan. We will work with you and your employees to ensure timely claim submission, and adjudicate all claims and enforce all plan provisions as per your policy plan text.
Disability claims management: We will work with your employees and their treatment professionals to achieve a timely and accurate diagnosis and treatment plan to ensure your employees achieve a state of maximum medical improvement safely and quickly.
Stay-at-work and return-to-work planning: We can ensure employees stay at or return to work within their functional abilities with safe and timely programs developed by Manitoba Blue Cross. We will consult with your employees, their treatment teams and your human resources department to develop capabilities and accommodated duties programs and recommend workplace accommodations.
Need workplace support that is not identified here? We can tailor our workplace well-being services to suit the unique needs of your workplace concerns.
Why choose Manitoba Blue Cross?
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Who we are:
- A homegrown company— We are a local company that is focused on the health and well-being of ALL Manitobans. We employ Manitobans, work with Manitobans and look out for Manitobans.
- Not-for-profit — We serve stakeholders, not stockholders. That means every dollar made is reinvested back into our infrastructure, our people, and our province.
- Most recognized and trusted name in health coverage — We are part of a trusted network whose products are backed by a brand name recognized around the world.
Benefits for employers
- Made-in-Manitoba — Because we're Manitoban, we are keenly attuned to what's happening in the province and have insider knowledge about the people we serve.
- Aligned with Manitoba Pharmacare — We follow Manitoba's formulary which keeps drug costs low and promotes stable renewals.
- Cost-effective — We provide statistical reports to help analyze your plan, helping you make informed decisions.
- Easy-to-use — We provide businesses with access to an easy-to-use group administration site. You can enroll, update or terminate employees at any time as well as request supplies and print or download billing statements.
Benefits for employees
- Accessible — We have an award-winning call centre and walk-in customer service centre, located right here in Manitoba. Plus, our members have 24/7 access to claim and benefit information via mybluecross®.
- Convenient — Our BlueNet card allows point-of-sale processing right at the pharmacy. Plus, we've made arrangements with many service providers to reimburse directly, from physiotherapists, dentists and chiropractors to ambulance companies, vision providers, hospitals and more. Assignment of Payment means members don't have to pay out-of-pocket and wait for reimbursement.
- Unique — We offer unique benefits - from foot care nurse and athletic therapy coverage to hostel care and treat no transport ambulance service. We're also one of the only carriers in the province to provide reimbursement for cardiac rehabilitation.
- Blue Advantage® — All members of Blue Cross get exclusive discounts on products and services offered by participating providers.