Certified Healthy Department Application Questions
Department Name
Contact Name
Campus Address
Campus Extension
Campus Email
- Indicate the size of your department
- 1-50
- 51-100
- 100+
- Screenings. Check the screenings/evaluations and preventive programs that apply to your department. (Check all that apply.)
- Encourages employees to complete the online Health Assessment through the Priority Health website as part of the Thrive @ GVSU program.
- Encourages employees to participate in the Thrive @ GVSU program.
- Faculty and staff are allowed to claim sick leave or flex time in order to participate in Thrive @ GVSU administered by Priority Health.
- Faculty and Staff are allowed to claim sick leave or flex time in order to get a physical exam, mammogram, or other preventive exam.
- Other:___________________________________
- Percentage of employees in your department who participated in Thrive @ GVSU in the last 12 months.
- 0-10%
- 11-25%
- 26-50%
- 51-75%
- 76-100%
- Physical Activity. Check the physical activity programs that apply to your department. (Check all that apply.)
- Flexible work schedules to allow faculty and staff time for physical activity.
- Encourages faculty and staff to take advantage of the University-paid membership to the Fieldhouse Recreation Center/Winter Hall Fitness Room or YMCA and area gym discounts.
- Hosts walk-and-talk meetings.
- Supports physical activity breaks during the workday, such as stretching or walking.
- Supports department-based fitness challenges.
- Supports departmental walking clubs.
- Schedules in-service training for faculty and staff on benefits and guidelines for physical activity.
- We offer ergonomic desk alternatives (i.e., stability balls, sit-to-stand desks, walking workstations).
- Other:_____________________
- Nutrition. Check the nutrition programs that apply to your department. (Check all that apply.)
- Requests healthy options for vending machines
- Provides healthy options at all meetings and conferences.
- Provides protected time and dedicated space away from work area for breaks and lunch.
- Faculty and staff are allowed to claim sick leave or flex time for consultations with a Registered Dietitian.
- Schedules in-service training for faculty and staff on nutrition information.
- Encourages faculty and staff to attend cooking demonstrations.
- Encourages faculty and staff to attend nutrition classes/sessions provided by Human Resources or Campus Recreation.
- Faculty and staff in our department have easy access to a break room with a refrigerator, microwave and/or toaster oven.
- Other:__________________________
- Emotional Health and Stress Management. Check the emotional health and stress management programs that apply to your department. (Check all that apply.)
- Flexible work schedules to allow faculty and staff to attend or participate in emotional health programs offered on campus offered through Work Life Connections.
- Flexible work schedules for faculty and staff in caregiving situations.
- Faculty and staff are allowed to claim sick leave for medical appointments related to emotional health.
- Unit heads, deans and supervisors attend Mental Health First Aid training to help understand emotional health issues and better assist faculty and staff.
- Promotes and encourage faculty and staff to utilize GVSU’s Employee Assistance Program, Encompass.
- Promotes stress management through “quiet rooms”, on-site relaxation classes, proper lighting, sound reduction measures or other techniques.
- Faculty and staff are encouraged to resolve conflict in the workplace through mediation services and/or the GVSU Conflict Resolution Process.
- Other:______________________________________________
- Tobacco Use. Check the tobacco use programs that apply to your department. (Check all that apply.)
- Promotes the Tobacco Free for Good free programs and services or other tobacco cessation programs to faculty and staff who currently use tobacco products.
- Flexible work schedules to allow faculty and staff to attend smoking cessation classes.
- Other:_______________________________
- Emergency Medical Response Plan. Check the emergency medical response plan programs that apply to your department. (Check all that apply.)
- Has a written plan for emergency response to medical events within the department.
- Provides CPR training to faculty and staff within the department.
- Other:___________________________________
- Health and Wellness Ambassador. Check below if you have a Health and Wellness Ambassador in your department. This person relays health and wellness information to departmental faculty and staff, and assists the department with its own wellness goals and initiatives.
- Yes
- No
- Other programs. List other health-related programs that your department offers that are not listed above.