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Take Charge! Live Well! is an exciting new health and wellness program brought to you by the state's labor management Joint Health Care Committee (JHCC).

Next Steps: Identify what works for you

While the program is voluntary, it’s designed to be simple and straightforward, so everyone can participate.

Take Charge of your health and life with one or all of the health improvement programs listed below.

• Health Assessment
• Health Screenings
• Personalized Health Coaching
• Online Lifestyle Behavior Programs
• Healthy Living Educational Materials
• Chronic Condition Management Services
• 24 /7/ Nurse Advice Line
• Preventive Care Reminders

You can earn an additional $25, up to $50 total, for participating.

 Health Assessment

How healthy are you? The health assessment is a good place to start in your healthy-living journey.

This tool helps you answer questions about your health.

• Available both online—check your health care provider's website—and on paper through your benefits administrator
• Takes only about 20 minutes to complete, and
• Provides immediate results for users of the online version.
• Keeps individual information confidential.

The assessment results help you become more aware of your overall health and any health risks you may have.

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 Health Screenings

Part of understanding your overall health picture is
to “know your numbers.”

Free health screens will be offered at various work locations throughout the state to provide employees with information on their:

• total cholesterol
• HDL
• blood glucose
• blood pressure and
• Body Mass Index.

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 Personalized Health Coaching

Have you ever tried dieting, but quit? Started an exercise program, then stopped? Tried to stop smoking and then gave up in frustration?

Now you have the opportunity to work one-on-one with a personal Health Coach who will help you establish your health goals and identify ways to make them a reality.

Practical, useful advice and encouragement is available.

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 Online Lifestyle Behavior Programs

Perhaps you prefer working on healthy lifestyle changes on your own.

Take Charge! Live Well! offers a number of online programs for improving your health.

From reducing your weight, to increasing your physical activity, learning how to control stress in your life, and quitting smoking, your Take Charge! Live Well! provider offers programs you can participate in through the web.

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 Healthy Living Educational Materials

You will have access to a variety of healthy living educational materials, including online and print resources.

Some will be directed to you if you are working with a Health Coach.

Others will be available to you as a participant in specific programs.

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 Chronic Condition Management Services

Your Take Charge! Live Well! provider offers specialized services to those who have a chronic condition and would like assistance in managing that condition.

While the conditions vary by provider, and some providers offer services for additional conditions, all state of Ohio employees enrolled in a health plan and their enrolled spouse have access to personalized services from a trained clinical provider if they have any of the following conditions:

• diabetes
• coronary artery disease
• asthma, cancer
• congestive heart failure
• severe low back pain
• obesity
• chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or
• renal disease

Health plan members with diabetes who participate
in one of the state’s Take Charge! Live Well! chronic
condition management programs may be eligible to
receive their diabetic supplies at a $0 copay.

Contact your Take Charge! Live Well! provider to see if you qualify for this special program.

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 Nurse Advice Line

You wake up in the middle of the night with a stomach
ache, and you don’t know what to do. Or, your child
has a sore throat.

Should you call your doctor? Go to the emergency room? Try a home treatment?

Before deciding, you may want to reach out to a health care professional who is always there for you — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week — and get information to help you make an informed decision.

A nurse is always available to take your call, and it’s completely confidential.

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 Preventive Care Reminders

You will receive notices in the mail reminding you when it is time for one of the preventive care services recommended for your age.

By receiving recommended preventive care services — such as a physical exam, mammogram, or colonoscopy — you and your physician will be better able to spot health issues in the early stages.

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See Related

Website of DAS Benefits Administration - Take Charge! Live Well! program

Play Video Introduction to TCLW program

Incentive Brochure (PDF)

Your Guide to TCLW (PDF)