{"id":31782,"date":"2024-04-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/?p=31782"},"modified":"2024-04-10T08:21:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T15:21:50","slug":"save-the-date-global-employee-health-and-fitness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/all-mfn\/save-the-date-global-employee-health-and-fitness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Date: May is Global Employee Health and Fitness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GEHFM2024-1024x662.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GEHFM2024-1024x662.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GEHFM2024-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GEHFM2024-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GEHFM2024.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Together, let&#8217;s make employee health a reality!&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Start thinking about how your company can participate on Global Employee Health &amp; Fitness Month!<br>Throughout the month of MAY, employers will challenge their employees to participate in health and<br>fitness activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How it Works:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sign Up at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gehfm.org\/registration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.gehfm.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Included with your signup is a toolkit with and newsletters in the month of May.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Get employees moving and improving their well-being and accumulate wellness points for awards\/prizes offered by your company.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gehfm.org\/welcome-global-employee-health-fitness-month\/resources\/live-virtual-seminars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">live, virtual health\/wellness seminars<\/a> on the GEHFM website.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Be sure to share your #GEHFM activities and experiences on social media and engage with other participants. Employee health is a powerful strategic component of an organization and an investment in employee health is essential to managing health costs, improving organizational productivity, retention of employees, reducing stress and improving mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Diane Hart, Owner of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harttoheartfitness.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hart to Heart Fitness<\/a>,&nbsp;is a&nbsp;Nationally Certified Fitness Professional, Personal Trainer, Health Educator and is&nbsp;current President of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physicalfitness.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Association for Health and Fitness<\/a>&nbsp;founded in 1979 by the U.S. President\u2019s Council on Sports and Fitness. She is also Chair and one of the original architects of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthandfitnessmonth.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global Employee Health and Fitness Month<\/a>, which strives to make healthy the norm in the workplace.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start thinking about how your company can participate on Global Employee Health &#038; Fitness Month!<br \/>\nThroughout the month of MAY, employers will challenge their employees to participate in health and<br \/>\nfitness activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":31144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[271,193],"class_list":["post-31782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-mfn","tag-corporate-wellness","tag-healthy-aging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31782"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33703,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31782\/revisions\/33703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}