Healthy Cleveland Business Council

Healthy Cleveland Business CouncilMaking Cleveland a healthy place to do business!

The Healthy Cleveland Business Council (HCBC) is comprised of Greater Cleveland businesses and organizations that are committed to improving worker health in Cleveland. Members are both small and large businesses from all types of industries. The Council’s long-term goal is to create an environment that fosters healthier attitudes and behaviors and attracts businesses and people to live, work and play in the city of Cleveland and throughout Cuyahoga County. 

The HCBC is supported by Steps to a Healthier Cleveland, a program of the Cleveland Department of Public Health, and our partners, Cuyahoga County Board of Health and Kaiser Permanente.

Why do we need the Healthy Cleveland Business Council?

  • Employees’ health impacts productivity, absenteeism, employer supported health care costs and more.
  • Most Americans spend more awake time at work than any other place.
  • Unhealthy employees are expensive. For example, it costs on average $1,300 for an employee who smokes per year. (source: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
  • Growing numbers of Clevelanders are engaging in unhealthy behaviors: 
    • 33% of Clevelanders are obese
    • 28% of Cleveland residents do not engage in any physical activity or exercise
    • 32% of Clevelanders smoke

(source: self-report data from Cleveland BRFSS 2005)

How can the Healthy Cleveland Business Council benefit your business?

Worksite wellness programs have been convincingly and repeatedly shown to result in reductions in employee healthcare costs and absenteeism, often within the first year of implementation. 

The Healthy Cleveland Business Council supports its members by providing:

  • Quarterly Council meetings on varying health and wellness topics
  • Worksite wellness tools and resources
  • Updates on best practices in worksite wellness policies and programs
  • Networking with other healthy Cleveland businesses
  • Mini-grant opportunities for innovative worksite wellness ideas
  • Monthly Wellness While You Work newsletter that can be customized for your employees

Current members of the Healthy Cleveland Business Council

Olympic Steel
Aetna, Inc
LGBT Community Center
The Sherwin Williams Company
thunder::tech
Neighborhood Progress, Inc
Insurance.com
Calfee, Halter and Griswald LLP
The Great Cleveland Health Ed. And Service Council, Inc.
Lighten the Weight LLC
Ben Venue Laboritories, Inc.
American Tank and Fabricating Co.
Hinkley Lighting Inc
The Chas. E. Phipps Co.
Cleveland State University
National City Corporation
Health Action Council
Case Western Reserve University
Slavic Village Development
Foseco Metallurgical Inc
Cleveland Botanical Garden
Kaiser Permanente
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Neighborhood Family Practice
Cleveland Clinic
Medical Mutual
Ohio State University Extension
Master Consulting Group
Cuyahoga County Board of Health
American Diabetes Association
Ohio Savings Bank
The Center for Community Solutions
St. Vincent Charity Hospital
Cleveland Metroparks
Chelko Consulting Group
Kellison and Company
NEON
Diabetes Association of Great Cleveland
Case Western Reserve University—Office of Health Promotion Research
Case Western Reserve University—Division of Adolescent Health
Children's Hunger Alliance
Bula Forge and Machine, Inc.
Hylant Group, Inc.
Kennametal, Inc.
Oswald Companies
Ohio CAT
The Alpha Group Agency
Tri-C