Employee Benefit News September 29, 2023
When COVID-19 shut down offices and schools, caregivers were left scrambling for resources to keep themselves and their loved ones healthy.
While telehealth and digital care platforms were the obvious solution, building holistic healthcare benefits isn’t as easy as throwing a bunch of apps at employees.
Both Madhavi Vemireddy, CEO of family support solution Cleo, and Nancy Jester, senior manager of physical and emotional wellness at Walmart, know this firsthand. At EBN’s Benefits at Work conference in San Diego, Vemireddy and Jester shared their stories as caregivers and benefits leaders in the age of digital healthcare, underlining that employers cannot separate whole person health from family health.
“We talk a lot about ‘whole person health,’ but I...