The Consortium for a Healthier Miami-Dade, an initiative of the Miami-Dade County Health Department, proudly announced the winners of the second annual “2010 South Florida Worksite Wellness Forum and Awards”. Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez and Lillian Rivera, RN, MSN, Ph.D., Administrator of the Miami-Dade County Health Department presented the awards to the winners in the small, mid-sized and large business categories.
The program honored South Florida companies located in Miami-Dade, Broward, Monroe and Palm Beach Counties that demonstrated a commitment to employee wellness and whose programs produced positive health outcomes. The winner of the small business category businesses with less than 500 employees, went to Camillus House a non-profit organization that provides humanitarian services to men, women and children who are poor and homeless with 156 employees. The mid-sized category winner businesses with 500 to 1,000 employees went to Henderson Mental Health Center, the largest non-profit behavioral healthcare organization in south Florida with 534 employees. The winner of the large business category businesses with more than 1,000 employees went to Baptist Health South Florida, the regions largest not-for-profit healthcare organization, consisting of 5 hospitals and 20 outpatient centers employing over 13,500 people.
