Pregnancy and Parenting
Expecting a Baby?
Understand how important having a healthy baby is to you, so UT SELECT plan offers the Special Beginning programs.
Get help and support
Special Beginnings is designed to help you better understand and manage your pregnancy. Specially trained obstetrical nurses will contact you regularly with pregnancy-related educational materials covering:
- Prenatal and postpartum nutrition
- Healthy life choices
- Fetal development
- Newborn care
Whether this is your first baby or you have other children, Special Beginnings is a wonderful source of information and support during your pregnancy.
Enroll in Special Beginnings and Receive a $50 Reward Card from Target. Call 1-800-462-3275 to enroll during your first trimester. UT SELECT is offering a $50 reward card from Target for women who enroll in and complete the Special Beginnings Program.
Parents and Kids Health
To children, the world is a large place full of excitement, thrills, opportunities, and questions. As parents, we want our children to be healthy from their head to their toes. Kidshealth.org is a website for parents and kids with information on tips for staying healthy, growing up, dealing with feelings, and articles featuring interactive activities.
Employee Assistance Program
The UT Employee Assistance Program (EAP), a benefit of your University of Texas employment, which provides confidential, professional assistance to help you resolve problems that affect your personal life or job performance. It is designed to allow you to seek help when you need it, at no charge. The EAP can help with stress, depression, alcohol or drug problems, financial issues, interpersonal problems and much more. It also offers other services such as seminars, training and resource referrals.
Visit the UT System EAP main page for a directory of all institutions' EAP (http://www.livingwell.utsystem.edu/eap.htm).
NEW!!! Living Well Health Manager, powered by WebMD.
We know good health is important to you and your family. That’s why effective July 1, 2009, the University of Texas System will offer you a great new resource called the ‘Living Well Health Manager, powered by WebMD.’ This personalized health information resource gives you and your family* free and easy access to the information you need to make smart choices about your health. From providing critical information about preventing or managing serious disease – to developing a personalized health improvement plan – you’ll find a variety of powerful and easy-to-use tools from one of the most trusted sources of health and medical information – WebMD!
*Program available to the following UT SELECT members-Employees, Retirees, Dependents (over the age of 18), Surviving Spouses and COBRA participants.
KEY FEATURES
- WebMD HealthQuotient (HQ) helps you identify your personal health risks, provides recommendations for improving those risks, and informs you of the easy-to-use tools to help make healthy lifestyle changes.
- Symptom Checker helps you determine if and when you should seek medical treatment.
- WebMD Health Topics gives you current, reliable information about specific health conditions you may be interested in.
- WebMD Lifestyle Improvement Programs gives you the support and tools you need to stop smoking, eat healthier, manage your weight, improve your fitness, and even manage stress.
- Tracking tools allow you to chart your progress toward achieving specific health goals.
The Living Well Health Manager, powered by WebMD will be available starting July 1, 2009, exclusively through the "Living Well Make it a Priority" web site at: www.webmdhealth.com/ut.
Learn what you and your dependents* need to do to complete the new WebMD HealthQuotient-Health Risk Assessment and get the FREE eco-friendly stainless steel water bottle.
*(over the age of 18)
Get To Know Yourself. The WebMD HealthQuotient (HQ) is one of the most powerful tools available to you through the new ‘Living Well Health Manager, powered by WebMD’ online program. Just answer a few simple questions, and you’ll receive detailed information about your personal health risk factors – along with a customized plan to help reduce or eliminate them. With HQ, your health isn’t left up to fate. It’s up to you.
HealthQuotient is available to you at no additional cost and is accessible within your ‘Living Well Health Manager, powered by WebMD’ web site. HQ gives you the information you need to stay one step ahead of potentially serious or chronic health problems.
Here’s what you can expect when you complete your WebMD HQ:
- Receive a personalized health risk assessment, including a confidential report with “at-a-glance” summary and prioritized results.
- Delivers personalized recommendations to help reduce or eliminate your risk factors.
- Explore compelling “what if” scenarios to see the impact of changing certain lifestyle behaviors.
- Results can help you determine if you need intervention before a more serious condition may develop. Complete your HQ today!
To complete the WebMD HQ, go to www.webmdhealth.com/ut.
Living Well Health Manager—Health Coaching
Some individuals may be eligible to receive support from a personal Health Coach. Through a series of convenient phone conversations, your Health Coach can help you establish your health goals — and create a personalized program to meet your needs. Your coach will help you focus on the lifestyle behaviors that can help maximize your health. Some of the topics you discuss may include:
- Exercise
- Nutrition
- Strength training
- Weight management
- Stress management
- Smoking cessation
- Depression
- Alcohol
To see if you’re eligible for a personal Health Coach, you must first complete your HQ located in your Living Well Health Manager. While it’s up to you to take the first step toward better health by completing the HQ, support is just around the corner to help you achieve your big dreams of better health.
To complete the WebMD HQ, go to www.webmdhealth.com/ut.
