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An Excerpt from MSNBC.com For Myrtha Suralie, keeping things rolling at UPS' New York sales office is no sweat, but keeping her diabetes in check during her pregnancy was another story. She was confined to a hospital bed her entire third trimester, with a blood sugar level of 400, almost four times as high as that of a healthy person, potentially life-threatening to her and her baby. That was when she received a life-changing call from a health coach. "She told me that they would monitor me throughout the entire time of my pregnancy," Suralie recalled. |
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“The day my dad passed away, I started praying for a solution, a way to quit smoking,” said Monte Hall, a 43-year-old cargo handler with UPS in Louisville, Ky. His father, who smoked a pack and a half a day, died from lung disease a few years ago. The solution came in the form of the company’s program. Mr. Hall got advice and encouragement from counselors, read articles they suggested and used nicotine patches. He says he has not had a cigarette since Feb. 24, 2007. |
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Myrtha Suralie lay in the hospital last May, three months pregnant, her diabetes out of whack. On the other end of her ringing cell phone was Marie Wornom, who introduced herself as a health coach, Suralie says. Wornom offered to work with Suralie through her pregnancy. |
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Brant Woodard, a call-center manager with UPS in Hillsborough County, isn't overweight but, like Vongsomsack, found out last year that he's at risk of developing diabetes. A health coach "has kept me on task," said Woodard, 48, who now walks at least four nights a week on a treadmill at home. "You know somebody is going to follow up with you. It's not like a doctor, who tells you what to do but isn't going to follow up." |
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Since suffering two heart attacks within one week in April 2006, Dearborn resident Roland Klekner lost 47 pounds, cut his prescription medications from 11 to zero, and reduced his body mass index from a clinically obese 31 to a healthier 26. Klekner, a supervisor in the industrial engineering department at UPS in Livonia, says he could not have done it without the support of his health coach, registered nurse Cathy Pardiny. The two phone regularly as part of UPS Healthy Connections-Informed Choices, a health management program the package delivery company began offering its employees and their families last year. |
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