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Last Updated November 30, 2020

Cigna Healthy Ways to WorkSM

We understand there is an overwhelming amount of information out there to help your business handle the challenges of COVID-19. To help you navigate these unprecedented times, we can offer resources based on some of the specific needs of your organization.

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Helping you prepare for the future.

As a result of COVID-19, every business faces new realities – and a long list of unknowns.

Cigna's Healthy Ways to Work Solutions are customized for each client we serve to help them address their immediate and long-term needs.* Whether you are deciding to reopen worksites or maintain a more virtual workforce, you need a dedicated, knowledgeable, and well-equipped partner – for as long as it takes. Our support focuses on the now, and what you may need in 6 months, 12 months, 18 months, and beyond.

Cigna's Healthy Ways to Work Solutions

Risk Analysis Reporting: Information to help you understand your population health risk.

Worksite Solutions: Helps employees navigate entry and care. We offer basic and enhanced solutions as well as testing to meet your immediate needs.

Workplace Clearance Tools: Helps protect your employees, so you can make confident workplace safety decisions going forward.

Caregiving Support: We offer holistic support for caregivers and employers.

Confide Behavioral Health Navigator: We provide a concierge approach to behavioral health.

For more information on any of our solutions: contact us.

How we can help

Workplace Health and Safety

We’ll help you reopen worksites as quickly, safely, and simply as possible by:

  • Assisting with physical worksite entry procedures and screening protocol
  • Addressing workplace readiness, such as PPE and physical distancing
  • Monitoring health and geographic risk at the national, state, and local levels
  • Providing employees reliable COVID-19-related information
  • Making testing and vaccines available when possible

You can also watch leaders at Cigna, the NBA, and Richland County Government (South Carolina) discuss workplace health and safety methods or read the transcript.

Did you know?

More than 85% of employers are planning to implement workplace safety and health measures.1

Population Health, Wellness, and Clinical Care

We’ll help you avoid chronic disease exacerbation among employees at highest risk and monitor the long term impact of COVID-19 by:

  • Improving chronic condition management, prioritizing high-risk populations
  • Expanding virtual care solutions for acute and preventive care
  • Helping people access medical and behavioral care safely
  • Addressing increased challenges with physical activity and nutrition
  • Leveraging analytics to identify and monitor long term health impacts of those diagnosed with COVID-19

You can also listen to how minority populations have been impacted or read the transcript.

Did you know?

Nearly half of Americans have delayed care, and a third plan to wait or not seek care at all.2

Greater Affordability

We’ll help you navigate financial and economic uncertainty through:

  • Identifying new disease onset and/or worsening of conditions
  • Monitoring existing and emerging mental health issues
  • Helping to ensure targeted at-risk populations are supported

Did you know?

In May 2020, 1 in 4 Americans had filed for unemployment, and a COVID-19-induced recession is predicted through 2021.3

Resiliency to Cope with Change

Our whole-person health approach supports your employees’ body and mind by helping to:

  • Address increased stress anxiety, depression, and insomnia
  • Fight substance use disorder
  • Minimize social isolation and loneliness
  • Support flexibility for employees managing multiple roles (e.g., caregiving, home schooling, etc.)

Did you know?

45% of Americans reported that stress and worry over COVID-19 has negatively affected their mental health.4

Customized Resources for Your Business Needs

Our Healthy Ways to WorkSM resources help make it simple to safely open your business – so you can get back to business.

*Cigna's Healthy Ways to Work product and service availability may vary by client. Please contact your Cigna representative for availability.

1 Steemers, Frank, Erickson, PhD, Robin, Popiela, Amanda, and Levanon, PhD, Gad, “From Immediate Responses to Planning for the Reimagined Workforce.”, www.conference-board.org/topics/natural-disasters-pandemics/reimagined-workplace-infographic, Accessed August 28, 2020.

2 Ableson, R. “Why People Are Still Avoiding the Doctor (It’s Not the Virus).” New York Times. 16 June 2020.

3 Tappe, M. CNN Business. “Leading Indicator.” 28 May 2020 and Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman, April 2020.

4 Source: Kaiser Family Foundation, April 2020.