indara Corporate Wellness Centre
recently opened within the Pindara
Private Hospital facility and is
offering patients a comprehensive and
cost effective health risk assessment
service, for individuals as well as organisations
looking to offer health and wellbeing programs to
their teams.
The Pindara Corporate Wellness Centre will help to
identify health risks and prevent illness by performing
a series of tests including an extensive online health
questionnaire, comprehensive examination by an
experienced Pindara doctor, skin check, blood
pressure checks, blood oxygen levels, ECG, lung
function tests, urine analysis, comprehensive blood
tests (including full cholesterol/lipid studies), exercise
tests, coronary calcium score (to assess risk of a heart
attack), and age/gender specific cancer screening
advice and tests.
The results from these tests are then entered into
evidence-based, scientifically validated health risk
assessment software to provide a 14-page report
on your current individual health and potential risk
factors. Advice on how to modify and reduce these
risks is then provided. Knowing what your risks are
and how to manage them reduces future healthcare
costs and potential suffering. It connects lifestyle to
healthy outcomes and drives informed decisions with
actionable data. It enables organisations to inspire
lifestyles that promote health, prevent disease and
reduce avoidable healthcare costs.
The Pindara Corporate Wellness Centre recently
completed testing on its first major corporate client,
the Senior Management team of Village Roadshow
Theme Parks.
If we uncover any health conditions we have
pathology, radiology and experienced specialists on
site ready to help.
Should some risk factors be identified during
the testing process, Pindara will provide you with
lifestyle advice to help you be the best and healthiest
person you can. It is important to remember the
Pindara Corporate Wellness Centre does not take the
place of a person’s regular GP, but instead provides
health information and a health plan that can be
monitored by your regular GP.
Renowned author Dr Eric Braverman states, “At
age 40, on average, you have five hidden diseases,
(that is they are not yet causing signs or symptoms
and you don't know that you have them). At age 50
it is closer to ten hidden diseases. One of them will
likely kill you. Hidden diseases are harder to find, but
easier to treat. Advanced diseases are easier to find,
but harder to treat.”
The aim of this program is to identify health risks
before they cause illness, suffering and in some cases
death, and provide you with a simple roadmap for
health.
The Pindara Corporate Wellness Centre has been
created by Emergency Medical Group, who set up
Australia’s first and highly successful private
Emergency Centre. Over decades of treating
serious illness this team of doctors became
determined to help people avoid or delay serious
preventable illness and so created this program for
early detection and guidance on how to manage
health risks into the future.
There are two types of health checks available
in the newly-renovated, customised treatment
rooms at Pindara Private Hospital: Pindara
Comprehensive - tailored for those aged under
50 and with no major health problems (ideal
for large organisation screening), and Pindara
Comprehensive Plus – tailored for those aged over
50, or with significant health concerns.
The Pindara Comprehensive Plus option involves
additional screening including a Coronary Calcium
Score to assess your risk of a heart attack. Heart
disease and stroke is the cause of death of about
half of all Australians. Many people have no
warning signs of the disease when their first
attack happens. The Coronary Calcium Score is a
measurement of the amount of calcium in the walls
of the arteries that supply your heart muscle, using
a special computed tomography (CT) scan of your
heart. This is a reliable indicator of the overall load
of atherosclerosis in your arteries and tells you
about your risk of a heart attack or stroke in the
next five to ten years.
Your Coronary Calcium Score will place you at
low, medium or high risk, allowing your doctor
to more accurately assess your risk and help you
with risk modification strategies. This help may be
via onsite cardiologist referral, smoking cessation,
treating your cholesterol or, most commonly,
assisting you with simple uncomplicated diet and
exercise advice.
There are many benefits for corporations who
implement health and wellbeing programs for
their staff. Organisations who have run or have
incorporated these types of programs into their
business often report benefits such as decreased
absenteeism, fewer reports of employee stress
and a reduction in costs associated with workers
compensation, according to Workplace Health
Australia (formerly the Health and Productivity
Institute of Australia). Anecdotal evidence also
suggests that corporations find an improvement
in productivity and engagement, as well as team
relationships and workplace culture.
It is accepted that many people spend the first
half of their life chasing financial stability at the
expense of their health, then spend the rest of
their life using that money to try and regain their
health. The Pindara Corporate Wellness Centre
can help break this cycle for your organisation, or
for yourself, and help you to be the healthiest you
can be.
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