Abstract P379: Adoption of Workplace Policies to Improve Heart Health: Results From the First and Second Year of the American Heart Association’s Workplace Health Achievement Index

Background: The American Heart Association’s Workplace Health Achievement Index (WHAI) uses a data-driven, quality improvement approach to assist companies in evaluating the quality of their current workplace health policies and promote a culture of healthy living in the workplace. Objective: The objective of this study was to use the WHAI to: 1) describe changes in adoption of workplace health strategies and employee health over time, 2) assess longitudinal differences in performance between smaller (<250 employees) and larger companies (250+ employees), and 3) identify the most and least adopted strategies among smaller and larger companies. Methods: The WHAI score is derived from 55 structure and process (SP) measures across 7 best-practice domains and performance metrics based on employee Life’s Simple 7 (LS7) data. The initial data collection period was Feb 1 – Mar 31, 2016 and the follow-up round of data collection occurred Apr 1 – Mar 31, 2017. Data were stratified according to smaller (n=26) vs. l...