(La Crosse, Wis.) Logistics Health Incorporated (LHI) has been granted the accreditation as a Gold Standard employer for the organization’s work toward cancer risk reduction, early detection, and treatment. The CEO Cancer Gold Standard is a comprehensive workplace-based program which highlights employers who take action to fight cancer among employees and their families.

Employers are selected for the accreditation by the Executive Committee of the CEO Roundtable on Cancer, which includes former U.S. President George H.W. Bush. Each Gold Standard employer maintains a culture that encourages healthy lifestyles and provides support when an individual is diagnosed with cancer. They also offer employees benefits and programs to lower their risk of cancer, detect cancer earlier, and provide access to the best available cancer treatment. Employers are selected for the accreditation based on five pillars, all of which must be met for a business to become a Gold Standard employer.

1. Tobacco Use. The business must establish and enforce a tobacco-free worksite policy, tobacco treatment must be covered under health plans, and workplace-based smoking cessation programs must be in place.
2. Diet and Nutrition. The organization must sustain a culture that supports healthy food choices, and provide access to nutrition and weight control programs.
3. Physical Activity. The organization must sustain a culture that encourages physical activity, and demonstrate a commitment to eliminating barriers to active lifestyles.
4. Prevention, Screening and Early Detection. The organization must sustain a culture that promotes appropriate cancer-screening behaviors, and ensure that health plans include cancer-screening provisions that adhere to the American Cancer Society or U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Guidelines.
5. Access to Quality Treatment and Clinic Trials. The organization must provide education and promotion of cancer clinical trials, and ensure that health benefit plans provide access to cancer care at Commission on Cancer-approved facilities and/or NCI-designated cancer centers.

Studies show more than half of all cancer deaths can be prevented, early diagnosis is attributed to better treatment outcomes, and businesses financially benefit from cancer prevention and early detection efforts.