Cigna Healthcare has selected Piedmont as a recipient of its 2024 gold level Healthy Workforce Designation for demonstrating a strong commitment to improving the health and vitality of its employees through a workplace well-being program.

The Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation evaluates organizations based on the core components of their well-being program, including leadership and culture, program foundations and execution, policies and accommodations, and additional areas.

In its designation, Cigna recognized Piedmont’s excellence in embedding wellbeing within their organization, specifically through the integration of wellbeing resources in its Nurse Residency Program curriculum and the wellness champion network that spans across 23 entities. Piedmont notably provides a variety of support and offerings available to employees across all dimensions of vitality.

Cigna also recognized Piedmont’s great use of metrics and key performance indicators to make changes to their 2024 strategy that resulted in increased participation in the Healthy Pregnancy Healthy Baby program as well as its comprehensive behavioral health platform. 

“At Piedmont, employee health is a top priority; We are honored to be recognized with the Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation,” Piedmont Chief Human Resources Officer Alison Smith said. “We understand the important role employee well-being plays in an organization’s success and the relationship between healthy employees contributing to a more productive, satisfied workforce and positive business performance.”

Cigna said vitality – defined as the capacity to pursue life with health, strength and energy – is both a driver and an outcome of health and work/life engagement, and is a catalyst for business and community growth. Research conducted as part of the Evernorth Vitality Index confirms that those with higher vitality experience better mental and physical health along with higher levels of job satisfaction and performance. 

“Higher vitality is linked to a more motivated, connected, and productive workforce,” said Kari Knight Stevens, executive vice president and chief human resources officer, The Cigna Group. “Employers that foster vitality will fuel a healthier workplace and drive business and economic growth. That’s why

we’re proud to recognize employers for their efforts to prioritize multiple dimensions of wellness, build a culture of health, and boost employee engagement.”