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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dear Business Managers and Benefit Administrators –
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Just a quick note to let you know we will be waiting a couple days before sending an email to members about the BSSE phone survey. Our original notice about this communication
(shown below) said we would send it today, but since we just sent a member email announcing the 2013 Annual Member Survey, we thought it best to postpone this announcement a couple days.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We plan to send our BSSE announcement email this Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#003399">Jackie Cowsill</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#003399"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#003399">Communications Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#003399">Oregon Educators Benefit Board<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#003399">Voice: 503-378-5353<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#003399">Fax: 503-378-5832<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">One of the Oregon Educators Benefit Board’s (OEBB's) guiding principles is to provide benefits and services that improve the overall health and wellness of its members through
a variety of programs and services. A key step in developing, modifying and monitoring outcomes of such benefits and services is obtaining current data on the health status of our members.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In partnership with Oregon Public Health, OEBB will once again be conducting the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey of School Employees (BSSE) in November and
December to gather information on the health and wellness of education employees including:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Current health status<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Behaviors that affect health (physical activity, eating habits, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Worksite health and wellness support<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The BSSE has been conducted biannually since 2009 and information from the survey has been used to establish benefits and programs that benefit members, such as OEBB’s Weight
Management Program<b><span style="color:red"> </span></b>and the elimination<b> </b>
of<b> </b>substance abuse copays and deductibl<span style="color:#44546A">es </span>
when using an in-network provider. The survey is modeled after annual health status surveys conducted by the state of Oregon and the federal Centers for Disease Control.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">On Monday, October 28, OEBB will be sending an email to employees who have listed email addresses in MyOEBB to announce this year’s survey. An independent survey firm will
begin by contacting a very small number of the random sample of employees (around 20 or so) as early as November 4 to complete the 20-25 minute survey as part of a pilot group, and then the remainder of the sampled employees will be contacted starting November
11<span style="color:#1F497D">. </span>(One of the reasons we are waiting until November 11 to start the BSSE is to hopefully reduce or eliminate any confusion for members<span style="color:red">
</span>the online OEBB Member Survey<span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>is scheduled for the last week of October through the first week of November.) Employees will be contacted at home in the evening, or on weekends to complete the survey. Employees may
reschedule the completion of the survey for a later date or decline to participate in the survey.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">All individual responses to the survey will remain confidential. The results of the survey will be reported in aggregate and will be used to help the Board better understand
the health care status and needs of OEBB members.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If you would like to forward this email to your staff as well, please feel free to do so. If you have any questions regarding the survey, you can contact Glenn Baly at 503-378-4960
or <a href="mailto:glenn.w.baly@state.or.us">glenn.w.baly@state.or.us</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Joan M. Kapowich</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Administrator</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Public Employees’ Benefit Board</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Oregon Educators Benefit Board</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Denise L. Hall<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Deputy Administrator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Oregon Educators Benefit Board<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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