Bullivant Houser Bailey PC

Comprised of six west coast offices, law firm Bullivant Houser Bailey PC was singled out as a “West Coast litigation powerhouse” by Chambers USA's “America's Leading Lawyers for Business.” Unfortunately, many of the factors driving successful legal services firms are the same ones that lead to high health care costs.

In an effort to lower costs, Bullivant's team restructured employee benefits - adding a high deductible plan moving toward consumer-driven health care, including a 30% participation health risk assessment. Yet, claims continued rising, and just as the company began running out of options Recess came along.

In partnership with their benefits broker, Bullivant sought assistance in assessing, planning, designing and rolling out a strategic wellness program that was tailored to the diverse, inclusive culture at the firm. As expected, Recess delivered just that in a fun and effective teams-based approach, which encouraged deep employee engagement in healthy lifestyle programs.

A year later, the program has created an impressive ground swell among employees. And, Recess has since rolled out wellness programs at each of Bullivant Houser Bailey PC's six sites.

The stats:

The stories behind the stats:

• The HR Team's Perspective

  

  “We wanted to do wellness effectively from the beginning.”

• The Wellness Team's Perspective

  

  34 Bullivant employees participated in site-based wellness teams.

• The Employees' Perspectives

  

  From cooking classes, online healthy living modules, blood pressure screenings Bullivant employees found options that worked for their lifestyles.

• A Newsworthy Program

  

  Read an Oregon Business magazine article featuring Bullivant's program.