Shannon Alfonso President and Benefits Practice Leader
Shannon Alfonso has been appointed as President and Employee Benefits Practice Leader at Seitlin Benefits. Shannon joined Seitlin Benefits in October 2004 and has over 15 years of experience in Employee Benefits.
Thomas M. Cornish
Seitlin congratulates our CEO and President, Thomas M. Cornish, for being named the Ultimate CEO of 2011 by the South Florida Business Journal. We invite you to read more about what makes Tom Cornish the Ultimate CEO:
To read the published article, click here.
On May 19th, 2011, Business Leader Magazine held their annual dinner to recognize excellence in the South Florida Business Community. The dinner was held at Jungle Island in Miami and over 400 people from the South Florida business community made their presence. Seitlin was pleased to accept the award for Top Insurance Firm in South Florida.
We also want to congratulate Perry Ellis, the University of Miami, Blue Cross and Blue Shield and Greenberg Traurig for being recognized for their great community involvement.
Seitlin would like to congratulate our CEO and President, Tom Cornish, for his wonderful achievements. Tom has been awarded 2011 South Florida Business Leader of the Year by Business Leader Magazine and 2011 Father of the Year by the American Diabetes Association. Tom has been CEO of Seitlin since 2003. Apart from being an outstanding CEO and President, he currently serves as the Chairman of Assurex Global and the Chairman of the Board of Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Blumberg Capital Partners, Miami Children’s Hospital, the Florida International University Foundation, the Florida Venture Capital Fund, The Beacon Council, the Community Partnership for the Homeless, and the Finance Committee for the Archdiocese of Miami.
To read more on the specific events follow the links below:
Ramona Fiumara and Kirstie Setta-Jones Accepting The 2011 Worksite Wellness Award
For the past three years, the Miami Dade Health Department has set out to honor South Florida companies that showed interest in their employees’ wellness and created programs that would generate a healthier environment. Seitlin is proud to receive the “2011 South Florida Worksite Wellness Award” for the small business category. There to accept our award was our Director of Corporate Wellness, Kirstie Settas-Jones, and our Vice President and Chief Operations Officer, Ramona Fiumara. To read more about the program, follow the link below.
As part of the Partnership for Prevention’s Leading by Example CEO-to-CEO initiative, Seitlin continues to promote our wellness program which offers our employees a way to better monitor and manage their health and identify personal lifestyle-related risk factors that contribute to serious illness and disease. To read more about the Partnership for Prevention’s Leading by Example program, click here.
Seitlin is honored and proud to be named a finalist for the 2011 Best Places to Work Award.
South Florida Business Journal: Best Places to Work
Miami, Florida, April 9, 2010 — The Consortium for a Healthier Miami-Dade, an initiative of the Miami-Dade County Health Department, proudly announced today winners of the second annual “2010 South Florida Worksite Wellness Forum and Awards” at a ceremony at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Miami Beach. Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez and Lillian Rivera, RN, MSN, Ph.D., Administrator of the Miami-Dade County Health Department presented the awards to the winners in the small, mid-sized and large business categories.
The program honored South Florida companies located in Miami-Dade, Broward, Monroe and Palm Beach Counties that demonstrated a commitment to employee wellness and whose programs produced positive health outcomes. The winner of the small business category – businesses with less than 500 employees, went to Camillus House – a non-profit organization that provides humanitarian services to men, women and children who are poor and homeless with 156 employees. The mid-sized category winner – businesses with 500 to 1,000 employees – went to Henderson Mental Health Center, the largest non-profit behavioral healthcare organization in south Florida with 534 employees. The winner of the large business category – businesses with more than 1,000 employees – went to Baptist Health South Florida, the regions largest not-for-profit healthcare organization, consisting of 5 hospitals and 20 outpatient centers employing over 13,500 people.
“In an era of rising healthcare costs and increased risk for chronic diseases, this program is essential for educating the local business community about the many wonderful benefits that worksite wellness programs provide,” said Dr. Rivera. Business owners, managers, human resource professionals, insurance brokers and those interested in wellness attended the luncheon which featured a corporate wellness expert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discussing how current healthcare legislation affects employers and wellness programs, and also aired a short video from Florida’s State Surgeon General, Dr. Ana M. Viamonte Ros congratulating the winners and presenting a proclamation signed by Governor Crist in honor of the Consortium’s efforts to promote wellness to South Florida business.
More than half of healthcare costs are due to unhealthy lifestyles and stress. Tobacco and alcohol use, lack of physical activity and poor nutrition all contribute to increased health costs. Many employers have already experienced the vast benefits of a healthier workforce, including reduced healthcare costs, increased productivity, decreased absenteeism, as well as an overall improvement in staff morale and company loyalty that can be produced with comprehensive worksite wellness programs.
The Miami-Dade County Health Department initiated the Consortium for a Healthier Miami-Dade in 2003 to address the increasing rates of chronic diseases in the local community. The Consortium is comprised of community agencies that work in collaboration to promote healthy lifestyles including a healthy diet, regular physical activity and not using tobacco products. The Worksite Wellness Committee is a workgroup of volunteers dedicated to promoting healthy lifestyles in the work setting by sharing information on best practices and by creating partnerships to implement worksite wellness activities.
Members of the Henderson WAVE Team accepting the award from the mayor and committee
Kirstie and the Mayor
Pictured: Carlos Molina, CFO, United Way; Norma Borrego, Senior Vice President, Seitlin Benefits & Human Capital Management; Aida Rubio, Account Manager, Seitlin Benefits & Human Capital Management; Dianne Blevin, Human Resource Manager, United Way; and Tom Cornish, President & CEO, Seitlin Insurance & Advisory Services.