{"id":17055,"date":"2019-10-04T15:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T19:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/benefits\/health-benefits\/equitable-life-expanding-eap-wellness-services-available-through-homewood-health-136629"},"modified":"2019-10-04T15:00:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T19:00:48","slug":"equitable-life-expanding-eap-wellness-services-available-through-homewood-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/10\/04\/equitable-life-expanding-eap-wellness-services-available-through-homewood-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Equitable Life expanding EAP, wellness services available through Homewood Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/EmployeeWellnessSupport-123RF.png\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Equitable Life expanding EAP, wellness services available through Homewood Health\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;October 4, 2019 <\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Equitable Life Insurance Co. of Canada is&nbsp;expanding the services it offers to plan sponsors&nbsp;through its partnership with&nbsp;Homewood Health Inc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">While the insurer has worked with Homewood Health for seven years to provide plan members on disability with specialized return-to-work support, it will now make the latter organization\u2019s employee assistance program and online health and wellness services available to plan sponsors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/eap-use-results-in-positive-workplace-outcomes-study-132201\">EAP use results in positive workplace outcomes: study<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cExpanding our partnership to include our EFAP and online mental-health and wellness resources will further help our customers meet the mental-health and wellness needs of employees and their families,\u201d said Dave Bennett, senior vice-president of group at Equitable Life, in a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cMental health is at the core of what Homewood does. They offer comprehensive and integrated services across the mental-health continuum. So they bring a wealth of clinical experience and expertise to their programming, products and services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">With a&nbsp;national network of more than 4,500 counsellors and clinical professionals,&nbsp;Homewood Health offers face-to-face, phone, email, chat, video counselling and self-directed treatment programs.&nbsp;Its work-life services and tools are developed and delivered by psychologists and experts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/what-you-dont-know-about-your-employee-assistance-program-99830\">What you don\u2019t know about your employee assistance program<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/benefits\/health-benefits\/equitable-life-expanding-eap-wellness-services-available-through-homewood-health-136629\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;October 4, 2019 Equitable Life Insurance Co. of Canada is&nbsp;expanding the services it offers to plan sponsors&nbsp;through its partnership with&nbsp;Homewood Health Inc. While the insurer has worked with Homewood Health for seven years to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}