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  • Healthcare Basics Explained

    Getting sick can be expensive.  Even minor illnesses and injuries can be very costly to diagnose and treat.  Health care coverage helps you get the care you need and protects you and your family financially if you get sick or injured.

    We’re breaking down the health insurance basics.  Because, when you understand it, you’re more likely to get preventive care, make better health decisions and even reduce your costs.

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  • Are You Financially Fit?

    It’s often thought that having money leads to happiness.  While that’s not necessarily true, being financially secure does create a sense of well-being which impacts your mental and physical health.  To address our whole health in 2023, we need to understand the relationship between financial and physical wellness.

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  • It’s Open Enrollment Season: Are You Prepared?

    Choosing the right benefits during open-enrollment season is so important and can help save money. It can also give individuals and families broader support with their health. Benefits like medical coverage are particularly important with high inflation having such a big impact on people’s budgets.

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  • Are You on Track to Retire? 6 Tips to Save for Retirement

    According to most retirement savings statistics, saving for retirement is something a lot of people put on the backburner.  Until it is too late, that is.

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  • What Employees Want: Financial Wellness

    “Financial Wellness” is getting a lot of buzz these days — and for good reason!  After all, today’s workforce is overwhelmed by mounting student debt and other rising expenses.

    Financial wellness refers to a person’s overall financial health and is one of many factors that makes up employee wellbeing.  We often think of wellbeing as related to physical and mental health, but financial stress impacts a person’s health as well.  When employees are stressed about their financial situation it effects their productivity, attendance and engagement in the workplace.

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  • ER vs. Urgent Care

    All too often, illness or injury appears out of the blue: You wake up in the middle of the night with intense abdominal pain. You stumble while carrying groceries up a flight of stairs and can no longer put weight on your swollen ankle. Or your baby spikes a high fever on the weekend.

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  • Cover 2 Consulting Website Launch

    We are proud to announce the launch of the new Cover 2 Consulting Group website!

     

     

    The features of their new site include:

    • Banner footage of Boston skyline
    • Two embedded videos explaining their HR Compliance Services and Benefits App
    • Unique graphic highlighting their specific client approach
    • Link to their Calendly app to easily schedule appointments

    Click HERE to view this gorgeous new website now!

    We are here to help you create the website you’ve always wanted. Contact us today for a free no-obligation consultation at info@etekhnos.com.

  • Winters-Oliver Website Launch

    We are proud to announce the launch of the new Winters-Oliver website! Based in beautiful Richmond, Virginia, Winters-Oliver Insurance Agency is a specialty insurance agency. The features of their new site include:

    Click HERE to view this gorgeous new website now!

    We are here to help you create the website you’ve always wanted. Contact us today for a free no-obligation consultation at info@etekhnos.com.

  • New Website Launched for Cowden Associates!

    Cowden Associates is located in Pittsburgh, PA and has been recognized nationally as a “Top Small Workplace” by Winning Workplaces and the Wall Street Journal and locally as a “Best Place to Work” by the Pittsburgh Business Times. When designing Cowden’s website, highlighting this great work culture and community involvement on their homepage was a must.

    Check out the website at cowdenassociates.com

    Contact us to learn more about custom website design, SEO optimization, email marketing, and social media solutions!

  • Opioid Crisis Explained | Employee Benefits Blog Content

    Lately, there’s been a big focus on America’s opioid addiction in the news. Whether it’s news on the abuse of the drug or it’s information sharing on how the drug works, Americans are talking about this subject regularly. We want to help educate you on this hot topic.

    Opioids are made from the opium poppy plant.  Opium has been around since 3,400 BC and it was first referenced as being cultivated in Southwest Asia. The drug traveled the Silk Road from the Mediterranean to Asia to China. Since then, the drug has gained popularity for pain relief but it also has gained notoriety as an abused drug. Morphine, Codeine, and Heroin are all derived from the opium poppy and are all highly addictive drugs that are abused all around the world. As the demand for these drugs has increased, so has the production.  From 2016 to 2017, the area under opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan increased by 63 percent. In 2016, it killed some 64,000 Americans, more than double the number in 2005.

    We can see that the danger from this drug is growing rapidly. What can we do to recognize potential abuse problems and to get help? Here are some facts about opioid addiction:

    • How do they work? Opioids attach to pain receptors in your brain spinal cord, and other areas that recognize pain signals. As they attach to the receptors, it reduces the sending of pain messages to the brain and therefore reduces the feelings of pain in your body.
    • Short-acting opiates are typically prescribed for injuries and only for a few days. They take 15-30 minutes for pain relief to begin and this relief lasts for 3-4 hours. Long-acting opiates are prescribed for moderate to severe pain and are used over a long period of time. Relief typically lasts for 8-12 hours and can be used alongside a short-acting drug for breakthrough pain.
    • Dependence is common with long-term use of an opiate. This means that the patient needs to take more of and higher doses of the medicine to get the same pain relieving effect. This does not necessarily mean the patient is addicted. Addiction is the abuse of the drug by taking it in an unprescribed way—like crushing tablets or using intravenously.
    • Americans account for less than 5% of the world’s population, but take 80% of the world’s opioid About 5% of the people who take opiates become addicted to the drug.
    • Help is available through many channels from private recovery centers to insurance providers. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration helpline is 1-800-662-HELP. This line is confidential, free, and available 24-hours a day and 7 days a week. Family and friends may also call this number for resources for help. Additional resources can be found at drugabuse.com.

    Make sure you are educated about the dangers of opioid abuse. But, don’t be discouraged and think that the abuse is incurable! There are many resources that can be used to break the addiction cycle and can make real change in the lives of its victims. Ask for help and offer help.