Wellness
Shelby County offers a variety of programs and resources designed to support your health and well-being.
Total Health Wellness Program
This program is dedicated to empowering, encouraging, and inspiring healthier life decisions among Shelby County Government Employees across all aspects of health—physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional well-being. It offers a wide range of free health and wellness programs, including:
- Monthly health education seminars
- Tobacco cessation programs
- On-site fitness centers and group fitness classes
- Health fairs
- On-site wellness screenings, blood pressure, glucose checks, and mobile mammography checks
- Discounted gym memberships
- Opioid usage programs
- Mental health education
- Webinars
- Chronic disease management programs
- Injury and prevention classes
- Diabetes prevention and management and colon cancer awareness programs
Tobacco Cessation Program
The Cigna Quit Today® program helps you develop a personal quit plan to become and remain tobacco free. The telephonic program features:
- One-on-one coaching with a dedicated wellness coach
- Convenient evening and weekend coaching hours
- Tobacco cessation workbook and tool kit
- Cigna Health Rewards® discounts, if available in your state
- Optional telephone group support
- Free over-the-counter nicotine replacement therapy (patch or gum) when ordered through the program
- Support line available 24/7
If you and your spouse are enrolled in one of the Cigna medical plans, you can use Cigna Quit Today® to avoid the tobacco surcharge. You must be deemed as “making progress toward your goal” by your coach by April 30, 2024. You’re encouraged to enroll by February 1, 2024, to allow time to make progress.
Call 1-866-417-7848 to enroll today.
Diabetic Supplies
Hearing Aids
Hearing Aids are provided with a maximum benefit per ear of $1,500, once every three years. County employees can also take advantage of the Cigna Healthy Rewards Discount Program. This comprehensive, cost-effective hearing health care benefit is provided by Amplifon Hearing Health Care.
Call 1-888-779-3468 to learn more about your hearing health benefit and find a provider near you or visit go.amplifonusa.com/cignasoundsavings2.
Healthy Pregnancies, Healthy Babies Program
The Cigna Healthy Pregnancies, Healthy Babies program is an incentive program designed to help you and your baby stay healthy during your pregnancy and in the days and weeks after your baby’s birth. If you take part and finish the program, you’ll be eligible to receive:
- $150 gift card if you enroll in your first trimester
- $75 gift card if you enroll in your second trimester
To enroll, call 1-800-615-2906. You can also visit myCigna.com for tools to help you track your pregnancy week by week, prepare for delivery, and care for your baby.
Preferred Providers Dialysis Treatment
Shelby County Government partners with HealthChoice to assist patients with Chronic Kidney Disease. Our Medical plans provide 100% coverage at in-network dialysis centers (Methodist and Satellite centers only).
To access a list of in-network centers, log into ShelbyCountyBenefits.com and click the “Forms” tab.
Note: There is no coverage for out-of-network dialysis centers. For more information, call HealthChoice at 1-901-821-6736, Monday – Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.