Health Advocacy Select comes with all Short Term Disability plans through the Standard Insurance Company. This service provides employees who are receiving benefits with access to Personal Health Advocates to help them navigate the health care system. Health Advocacy Enhanced is also offered by Standard Insurance Company and is an optional add-on that gives all your employees access to the service.
Short Term Disability
The Return-to-Work Experts
It might be maternity, injury, depression or another illness. Whatever the diagnosis, our Short Term Disability expertise can make things easier for your employees and your HR team.
With customized solutions that treat the whole person, we try to help employees get back to work as safely and quickly as possible.
A Whole-Person Approach
Workplace PossibilitiesSM plays an important role for customers with our Group Short Term Disability insurance.1 This program looks at the range of factors that can delay an employee’s recovery from a physical — or behavioral — condition.
Clinical, vocational and accommodations experts then coordinate their efforts and tailor a plan to help the individual return to work. They also focus on preventing disability in those still working, giving them the opportunity to stay at work — and receive a full paycheck.
The Right Expertise
Our Workplace Possibilities consultants provide employers with access to local, onsite support.2 Consultants work with employees proactively and coach managers on how to spot employees needing support and refer them to our program.3
They can help ease the burden on HR by working directly with employees, coordinating available benefits. Consultants also help employers with Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act accommodations.4
Success and Support Through the Whole Process
Our approach works:
- 64% of employees who participated in the program successfully returned to work.5
- The program helped avoid more than $15 million in direct claim costs and 125,000 lost workdays.5,6
But whatever their outcome, your employees will receive the same integrated support and continuous case management whether they return to work, extend their Short Term Disability or transition to Long Term Disability.