Cuyahoga County is committed to promoting and sustaining the well-being of its employees and their families by providing quality and integrative health and wellness programs.  Cuyahoga County provides competitive benefits at affordable prices and provides employees with options to best meet their individual and family needs. We make benefits information readily accessible through a comprehensive benefits website and benefit educational tools that employees and their families can easily access. Through strategic partnerships and collaboration, the Department of Human Resources attracts, recruits, develops, motivates, and retains a high performing and diverse workforce while fostering a healthy, safe and productive environment.

Through management of benefit plans, the County has experienced operating efficiencies, better discounts across all plans and lower claims costs.  Benefits and wellness education has led to employees being smarter healthcare consumers.  These efforts, in part, have resulted in lower overall costs benefiting the employee and the County directly.

The County's comprehensive wellness program is geared to promote mental, physical, nutritional, emotional and financial health.  With a focus on overall well-being and preventive care, results indicate better management of employees’ overall health and better management and even reductions in chronic health conditions.

The County plans to continue to perform continuous reviews, analysis and application of innovative changes to the County’s benefit and wellness plan designs, that meet the needs of current employees and their families and positions the County for the next generation of workforce.

The County will continue to build and support organizational wellness by increasing offerings that will ultimately improve productivity, improve and increase employees’ physical fitness, build healthier habits for employees and their families, reduce stress, collectively and individually increase weight loss throughout the organization, better manage employees’ multiple chronic conditions and ultimately lower healthcare costs to ensure continued alignment with our Total Rewards Strategy.