Toccoa provided opportunities to participate in charity events on a year-round basis. When we participated in the Red Cross' Relay for Life event last year, our team won the Most Spirited award. We also had 20 to 30 employees in the March of Dimes' Walk for Healthy Babies. It's important to remember that health is enhanced by a number of non-traditional factors such as public service, voluntarism and charitable activities. For example, giving blood has been associated with lowering the risk of heart disease and voluntarism is also associated with beneficial health outcomes.
Wellness is much more than just taking cholesterol and blood pressure measurements.
The GMA wellness program, starting with a health fair in the first year, has gone on to provide regular wellness checks, opportunities to participate in wellness-related charity events and opportunities to take advantage of commercial fitness programs at reduced prices. It has had increased participation every year, and we get all kinds of positive feedback from our employees. This year Toccoa held a combined health fair and benefit fair. We also conducted a wellness profile of our employees, which involved checking their blood pressure and cholesterol levels, among other things.