Middlesex Health Wellness Programs
Your wellbeing is paramount – emotionally, physically, and financially. When you spend your days and nights caring generously for others, it’s important to take the time to look after yourself, too. We provide a variety of programs and resources to help motivate and support your total wellbeing in everyday life.
All these Middlesex Wellness Programs are part of your benefits program and are available to employees and non-employed medical staff (unless indicated). Feel free to attend any programs that interest you.
Explore Our Programs
Discounted Premiums
If you complete a biometric screening during your physical, you are eligible for discounted rates on health insurance premiums. This means you will get money back in your paycheck for looking after yourself!
Employee Assistance Program
At Middlesex Health, we know that our employees are our most valuable asset. But, we also know that life presents challenges— that is why Middlesex Health offers two different employee assistance programs to provide you and your loved one's support and guidance through those uncertain times.
ACI Specialty Benefits Employee Assistance Program
This program is available as part of your benefits package and allows employees up to 3 telephonic sessions. ACI is limited to employees only and not for non-employed medical staff. Learn more
Middlesex Health Employee Assistance Program
A free service offered by the Middlesex Health Center for Behavioral Health for employees and/or their immediate family members. EA offers up to four sessions to assess your concerns, provide counseling, and, if necessary, refer you to community resources. Learn more
Employee Discounts
Middlesex Health offers a number of ways for you to save money! Our discounts range from local to national offers and most can help support you and your loved ones so you can achieve your health and fitness goals.
Financial Wellness
Financial security is more than just how much money you have in the bank. It also includes your habits, goals, and achievements. Even when things are bad, it can make you feel prepared. If you have a lot of financial security, you may even be able to stay focused on your goals even when the market is shaky or something unexpected happens. No matter where you are on your path to financial wellness, there are more tools and information to help you get on track and stay there. You can find more articles, tools, and videos about financial wellness at blog.voya.com
Middlesex Health's Voya Representatives
Marty Baron
marty@baronfinancialct.com
(860) 580-1606
Keith Williams
keith.williams@voyafa.com
(860) 580-2126\
Educational Support
Middlesex Health values your education. We encourage and support our employees who want to better themselves academically, which is why we provide a variety of options to make your education more accessible and achievable. Learn More
Integrative Medicine
The integrative medicine program offers several therapies that can relieve pain and improve your state of mind.
- Acupuncture
- Hypnotherapy
- Massage
- Reflexology
- Reiki
Middlesex Health employees get discounts on all services and some services may be covered by insurance.
Journey
Our employees and their dependents receive the Proactive Mental Health Program at no cost as part of their health and wellness benefits. They provide employees with a variety of videos that range from different topics and teaching styles to assist them in achieving their objectives, regardless of where they are in life. Non-employed medical staff would need to sign up for this program by emailing human resources.
Lactation Rooms
We have two lactation rooms for employees. Both rooms include a mini fridge, sink, and a medela symphony hospital-grade pump. Employees can also join our breastfeeding support group weekly on Tuesdays.
The first room is located on the third floor of the hospital. (Make an immediate left out of the main elevators onto third floor and it is located in the hallway).
The second room is located on the third floor of the Crescent Center for Mental Health at 1 Macdonough Place.
Lifestyle Medicine
Middlesex Health Lifestyle Medicine focuses on six areas in which patients can improve their health: Nutrition, Physical Activity, Relationships, Stress Reduction, Sleep, and Use of Risky Substances. We believe that every person can take steps to achieve their wellness goals, and our board-certified lifestyle medicine clinicians will guide you every step of the way.
Middlesex Health Center for Mindfulness & Compassion
This group provides mindfulness education and training to staff and community members to promote ongoing personal development in a safe and supportive environment with special attention to employee satisfaction and community outreach.
For more information, contact Dennis McCann at dennis.mccann@midhosp.org
Middlesex Health Holistic CARE Team
The Holistic CARE Team (HCT) is committed to fostering relationship-centered care by embracing an interdisciplinary philosophy of holism. Our passion is to facilitate innate self-healing and restore the balance of the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of self by creating an optimal healing environment shared with patients and staff in all settings. We promote caring, healing practices that complement and enrich conventional medicine to restore health, quality of life and well-being.
For more information, contact Deb Depasqua at debra.depasdqua@midhosp.org or Cheryl Mohrlein at cheryl.mohrlein@midhosp.org
Peer To Peer
The purpose of the Peer to Peer Support Program is to provide support to colleagues following traumatic or stressful workplace events. Working in health care increases the risk that one will be exposed to many difficult experiences and situations. However, with the proper support, nurses can minimize the effects of these events and continue to provide compassionate care to patients and their families. Peer to peer support for clinical staff coping with stress following a traumatic event. More information for current employees here. Contact Mary Allegra at mary.allegra@midhosp.org
Preventive Exam Credits
We want you to be your best for the long run, whether kicking your smoking habit or following up with routine wellness screenings. You can receive discount credit for the cafeteria or cash for the Middlesex Health gift shop by completing the following:
- Colonoscopy Screening (age 50 or older, no more than one per year) $100 credit.
- Routine Mammography Screening (age 40 or older, one per year) $20 credit.
- Bone Density Screening (age 60 or older, one every 23 months) $30 credit.
- Smoking Cessation Program (smoke free for six months) $50 credit offered once.
- Middlesex Hospital
- Outpatient Center (Saybrook Road, Middletown)
- The Marlborough Medical Center
- Shoreline Medical Center
The credit is only available for benefit-eligible employees of Middlesex Health System. However, you do not need to receive your medical insurance through Middlesex Hospital to qualify for these credits.
When you have an eligible procedure performed at one of the qualifying Middlesex Health facilities, you need to fill out and return a Preventive Procedure Credit Form and send it to the Benefits team. The Benefits team will check to see if you match the requirements and will send you a certificate for the credits you've earned.
Please call the Benefits team at (860) 358-6384 or (860) 358-4647 or email benefits@midhosp.org with any questions or for more information.
Rejuvenation Station
Middlesex Health's Rejuvenation Station provides a calming place for staff to relax and recover. The room features a massage chair, zero-gravity chairs, salt lamps, and calming music. Staff can access the wellness room 24/7. The room is located in the hallway of North 2, just down the hall from the CCU entrance.
Schwartz Rounds
Monthly meetings that allow health care providers a regularly scheduled time to openly and honestly share and discuss the social and emotional issues they face in caring for patients and families. For more information, contact Cheryl Mohrlein at cheryl.mohrlein@midhosp.org or Dennis McCann at dennis.mccann@midhosp.org
Spiritual Care
At Middlesex Health, we are committed to providing compassionate care that respects the beliefs and needs of each person. Our philosophy is that healing involves the whole person - mind, body, and soul. Therefore, our spiritual care department supports patients, their loved ones, hospital employees, and volunteers as they cope with the emotional and spiritual impact of illness, injury, or crisis.
Walk With A Doc
Is there an area of medicine you’re interested in learning more about? Walk with one of your colleagues and learn from their expertise while becoming more physically active. The free Walk With a Doc program creates a supporting and encouraging social group where you can learn more about your health and wellness.
- Every Saturday 9-10am at Pat Kidney Sports Complex
Wellness Rewards Program
The Wellness Rewards Program is an incentive program sponsored by Employee Health and Wellness for all employees. Designed to reward each employee for taking personal responsibility in maintaining their health and wellness.
Point Calculations for Reward
30 minutes of activity = 1 Point
5 hours of activity = 10 Points
50 points = $10.00 gift card
If you are a current employee you can learn more about the program on the Employee Health intranet page.
This is a Middlesex Health employee incentive. **You must be a current employee to receive your gift cards.**