{"id":15970,"date":"2024-05-09T14:46:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T18:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=15970"},"modified":"2024-05-09T14:46:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T18:46:07","slug":"health-fair-planned-for-decatur-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/09\/health-fair-planned-for-decatur-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Fair planned for Decatur employees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The City of Decatur is putting together plans for a Health Fair for its employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea of such a first-time event was unveiled at city council&#8217;s latest meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor Dan Rickord said he and Clerk-Treasurer Kevin Hackman have been talking to Adams County Memorial Hospital officials of staging a health fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom our standpoint, it&#8217;s about having healthy employees\u201d the mayor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Physicians Health Plan of Northern Indiana, Inc. (PHP) would help fund the health fair, which would be for all full-time city workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some incentives are planned, such as a half-day off for those getting a heart scan, and perhaps a vacation day for full participation and a follow-up exam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rickord stressed, however, that participation \u201cwould be totally voluntary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Councilwoman Jenny Bowers-Shultz, an RN (registered nurse) gave her full support to the idea. \u201cI really like to give incentive for people to invest in themselves,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An ordinance \u201cpertaining to employee incentives or recognition\u201d was approved by council. The ordinance, City Attorney Anne Razo said, \u201cwill give the mayor some discretionary authority\u201d as the effort moves forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com The City of Decatur is putting together plans for a Health Fair for its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17,14],"class_list":["post-15970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-community","tag-decatur"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/242D0D67B9624E7CAA3CB30C53B56375.jpg?fit=462%2C288&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}