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These Health Improvement Programs are in addition to your MNPS certificated benefit plans (insurance) and the many no-cost health care services offered at the MNPS Employee & Family Health Care Centers. Click on a program name for more details.
Anxiety
GuidanceResources® EAP
You and your household family members have access to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) called GuidanceResources. It can help with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and marital conflicts, job pressures, and legal and financial concerns. Services are free, available 24/7 and completely confidential. You don’t have to be enrolled in MNPS insurance and you may begin using the EAP on your first day of active employment.
Synchronous Health telehealth counseling
This unique program is designed just for teachers and the challenges they face, which often take a toll on mental and emotional health. The program is delivered through your phone or smart device and includes access to a live licensed counselor via a telehealth app.*
Back pain
MySpineHealth bundle
Provided through Vanderbilt Health, this program “bundles” all the services needed for select spine surgeries, providing the fastest, most cost-effective treatment and recovery path for patients suffering from chronic back pain.*
Colon cancer prevention
Cologuard®
Early detection of colon cancer is critical. If you’re age 45 or older, you have several no-cost colon cancer screening options, including the noninvasive Cologuard test.*
Depression
GuidanceResources® EAP
You and your household family members have access to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) called GuidanceResources. It can help with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and marital conflicts, job pressures, and legal and financial concerns. Services are free, available 24/7 and completely confidential. You don’t have to be enrolled in MNPS insurance and you may begin using the EAP on your first day of active employment.
Synchronous Health telehealth counseling
This unique program is designed just for teachers and the challenges they face, which often take a toll on mental and emotional health. The program is delivered through your phone or smart device and includes access to a live licensed counselor via a telehealth app.*
Diabetes prevention
Diabetes Resource Guide
This two-page guide lists all the programs MNPS provides to help you prevent and/or manage diabetes.*
Omada®
If you’re at risk, Omada’s digital lifestyle change program can help you develop long-term healthy habits, lose weight if appropriate, and avoid developing diabetes. Take a one-minute risk screener to see if you’re eligible.*
Virta
Many people living with prediabetes (5.7%-6.4% A1c) don’t even realize it until it’s too late. If you think you’re at risk, Virta can help. And if you do have prediabetes, Virta will give you the tools and support you need to stop prediabetes in its tracks.*
Diabetes management
Diabetes and nutrition education
With a referral from your primary care provider or endocrinologist you and/or your covered dependents with diabetes can see a certified diabetes educator for self-management education and/or medical nutrition therapy. Some network providers offer telehealth options, including Vanderbilt.
Diabetic eye exams
Diabetic eye exams are available at the MNPS Health Care Centers. Images are then reviewed by an ophthalmologist. If signs of retinopathy are found, we will contact you to discuss next steps. But this screening does not replace regular eye exams, provide a glasses/contacts prescription, or test for glaucoma (increased pressure in the eye). Call 615-259-8755 to make an appointment.
Diabetes Resource Guide
This two-page guide lists all the programs MNPS provides to help you prevent and/or manage diabetes.*
Omada®
If you live with diabetes, Omada’s digital lifestyle change program can help you develop long-term healthy habits, lose weight if appropriate, and better manage your diabetes. Take a one-minute risk screener to see if you’re eligible.*
Shared Medical Appointments
Available at the Employee Wellness Center, shared medical appointments (SMAs) are a unique opportunity to have your follow-up appointments in a group setting, which provides consultation with an endocrinologist, self-management education and peer support all in one visit. Call 615-259-8755.
Telehealth with an endocrinologist
Patients can schedule a diabetes specialist telehealth visit with Vanderbilt Health’s Dr. Chanhaeng Rhee, Medical Director for the Eskind Adult Diabetes Clinic, or Tiffanie Marksbury, nurse practitioner in endocrinology. Make an in-person appointment at one of the MNPS Health Care Centers. When you arrive, a nurse will help get your visit started with Dr. Rhee or Tiffanie. Any lab/blood work ordered can be done while you’re in the clinic.
Virta
For those with type 2 diabetes, Virta is best known for its reversal program, but it also offers the tools and support to help you better manage your diabetes without requiring dietary changes—that is, until you’re ready.*
Diabetes reversal
Virta
Go beyond managing type 2 diabetes—reverse it. Virta provides the tools and ongoing support needed to harness the power of food as medicine and treat the root cause of high blood sugar—one without medications or calorie counting.*
Fertility
Progyny | Smarter fertility benefits
For employees and their spouses who want to have a child or preserve their fertility, this benefit provides coverage for IUI, IVF and more through Progyny’s national network of fertility specialists.*
Hearing loss
Hearing aid benefit
This benefit, bundled with your medical/dental/vision insurance package, pays up to $1,400/person for hearing aids (every five years) when you use Amplifon providers.*
MyHearingHealth bundle
Provided through Vanderbilt Health, this program “bundles” all the services needed for successful cochlear implant surgery for patients with severe hearing loss.*
Heart disease prevention
Omada®
If you’re at risk, Omada’s digital lifestyle change program can help you develop long-term healthy habits, lose weight if appropriate, and avoid developing heart disease. Take a one-minute risk screener to see if you’re eligible.*
Hip pain
MyOrthoHealth bundle
Provided through Vanderbilt Health, this program “bundles” all the services needed to help you find the most appropriate course of treatment for your joint pain, providing a path to a speedy return to life and work. This personalized plan may involve surgery and/or physical therapy and other complementary treatments.*
Hypertension (high blood pressure)
Omada®
If you live with high blood pressure, Omada’s digital lifestyle change program can help you develop long-term healthy habits and better manage your blood pressure. Take a one-minute risk screener to see if you’re eligible.*
Knee pain
MyOrthoHealth bundle
Provided through Vanderbilt Health, this program “bundles” all the services needed to help you find the most appropriate course of treatment for your joint pain, providing a path to a speedy return to life and work. This personalized plan may involve surgery and/or physical therapy and other complementary treatments.*
Maternity
Healthy Pregnancies Healthy Babies® by Cigna
This program provides vital prenatal support and education. If you enroll in your first trimester, you’ll receive $500 upon completion of the program ($250 if you enroll in your second trimester).*
MyMaternityHealth bundle
Provided through Vanderbilt Health, this program “bundles” all the services an expectant mother and baby need to receive the best care – from enrollment through delivery – at no cost to you.*
Men's health
90-Day Men's Health Challenge
For the first time ever, we're launching a program just for men. Male MNPS employees and male spouses/partners enrolled in the Certificated Employee Health Plan are eligible to participate.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course
This no-cost, evidence-based course teaches you to consciously work with your own stress and the demands of life. You’ll learn mindfulness techniques and participate in gentle movements and group discussions aimed at enhancing awareness.
Nutrition
Foodsmart
This tele-nutrition program lets you meet one-on-one with a registered dietitian (via video or phone) to address all the eating challenges you face. You also get personalized meal plans, a nutrition assessment, personal preference customization (e.g., allergies, food dislikes), and more.*
Pain/musculoskeletal
MyOrthoHealth bundle
Provided through Vanderbilt Health, this program “bundles” all the services needed to help you find the most appropriate course of treatment for your joint pain, providing a path to a speedy return to life and work. This personalized plan may involve surgery and/or physical therapy and other complementary treatments.*
Pregnancy
Healthy Pregnancies Healthy Babies® by Cigna
This program provides vital prenatal support and education. If you enroll in your first trimester, you’ll receive $500 upon completion of the program ($250 if you enroll in your second trimester).*
Shoulder pain
MyOrthoHealth bundle
Provided through Vanderbilt Health, this program “bundles” all the services needed to help you find the most appropriate course of treatment for your joint pain, providing a path to a speedy return to life and work. The program supports patients through physical therapy first, proceeding to advanced imaging and surgery only when these are the clinically appropriate next steps.*
Skin concern
Enhanced dermatology care
Available at any MNPS Health Care Center, if indicated we can now take and send a photograph of the suspicious area(s) to Vanderbilt Dermatology for evaluation. Simply make an in-person appointment by calling 615-259-8755.
Stress
GuidanceResources® EAP
You and your household family members have access to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) called GuidanceResources. It can help with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and marital conflicts, job pressures, and legal and financial concerns. Services are free, available 24/7 and completely confidential. You don’t have to be enrolled in MNPS insurance and you may begin using the EAP on your first day of active employment.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course
This no-cost, evidence-based course teaches you to consciously work with your own stress and the demands of life. You’ll learn mindfulness techniques and participate in gentle movements and group discussions aimed at enhancing awareness.
Synchronous Health telehealth counseling
This unique program is designed just for teachers and the challenges they face, which often take a toll on mental and emotional health. The program is delivered through your phone or smart device and includes access to a live licensed counselor via a telehealth app.*
Tobacco cessation
Tobacco Cessation Program
Ready to quit tobacco? Cigna's Tobacco Cessation Program has proven results with 89% of Cigna participants staying tobacco-free one year after graduating from the program.*
Weight management/obesity
Foodsmart
This tele-nutrition program lets you meet one-on-one with a registered dietitian (via video or phone) to address all the eating challenges you face. You also get personalized meal plans, a nutrition assessment, personal preference customization (e.g., allergies, food dislikes), and more.*
MyWeightLossHealth bundle (surgical & medical weight loss)
Provided through Vanderbilt Health, this program coordinates and “bundles” all services needed for a successful weight loss journey. There are two bundles available in this program: Surgical Weight Loss, which provides patients with a streamlined and personalized approach to bariatric (weight loss) surgery, and Medical Weight Loss, a non-surgical approach to weight loss that includes a custom plan for nutrition, exercise and psychological support.*
Omada®
Omada’s digital lifestyle change program can help you develop long-term healthy habits, lose weight, and avoid developing diabetes and heart disease. Take a one-minute risk screener to see if you’re eligible.*
Virta
One of the key benefits of the Virta lifestyle, a lifestyle custom designed to help people naturally reduce their average blood sugar and reverse type 2 diabetes, is its ability to help people lose weight and keep it off. That is why Virta is available to eligible employees with a BMI of 30 or greater, regardless of diabetes diagnoses.
Weight Management Program
This program, offered through the MNPS Health Care Centers, is designed for people with a body mass index (BMI) of 25 or higher who want to lose weight and pursue better health. Eligible enrollees receive 50% reimbursement of membership fees at an approved weight management program/organization.
* Available to employees (and, in some cases, eligible dependents) enrolled in the Certificated Employee Health Plan