New Portal Launches February 1, 2021
Hoos Well is excited to provide you with an upgraded well-being portal for 2021, delivered by Virgin Pulse, offering many enhancements and new features including:
- Increased opportunities to earn rewards, including tracking healthy habits and talking live with a health guide
- Interactive, personalized, and customizable challenges
- Improved device synching and activity tracking
- Expanded list of charities to which earned rewards can be donated, including UVA Children’s Hospital
- Ability to invite friends and family to track activities and join challenges
Your new Hoos Well portal experience will be available on Monday, February 1, 2021. Stay tuned to this webpage for details on how to log in and get started. If you have any questions, reach out to the Hoos Well team: Hooswell@virginia.edu
What’s New for the New Portal
- Next-Steps Consult®: Talk live with a health guide who can help you choose programs and resources that are best for you
- RedBrick Track® is replaced by Healthy Habit Trackers, with hundreds of new habits to choose from in categories such as Getting Active, Eating Healthy, Reducing Stress, Learning New Things, and more
- New and different challenges: In addition to challenges you can do with your coworkers, you’ll be able to challenge yourself to practice some healthy habits and even design and invite your coworkers and friends to participate in your own personal challenges
- Daily Cards to remind you to get active, get healthy, and live better every day
- Nutrition Guide and resources
- Sleep Guide and resources
- Ability to invite your family and friends* to track activities, join challenges, and cheer each other on
- Ability to set your interests to receive personalized tips, and create or join groups based on common interests
- Opportunity to participate in reward-eligible surveys and focus groups to provide your feedback on, and help shape future, Hoos Well programs
What’s Staying the Same
- Health Assessment
- Journeys®
- Activity tracking
- Ability to earn up to $500 in rewards*, redeemable for gift cards or charitable donations
Learn more about the new portal.
Ways to Earn in 2021
Enhancing your health and well-being is rewarding in more ways than one! Employees and spouses enrolled in the UVA Health Plan or UPG Anthem Health Plan, are eligible to earn up to $500 in rewards for completing the healthy activities in the table below.
Healthy Activity | Reward |
---|---|
Create a New Account | $10 |
Complete the Health Assessment | $100 |
Complete a Next-Steps Consult Appointment | $25 |
Complete a Journey (up to 10x) | $50 each |
20-Day Triple Tracker: 7,000 Steps/15 Active Minutes/15 Workout Minutes | $25 each |
Track Healthy Habits 20 Days in a Month | $5 each |
Complete a Hoos Well Challenge (up to 3x) | $50 each |
Receive and Report Your Well Check. (Eligible exam dates are 12/1/19 to 11/30/21) | $100 |
Receive and Report a Flu Vaccine. (Eligible vaccination dates are 9/1/20 to 8/31/21) | $25 |
Participate in a Hoos Well Survey or Focus Group (up to 5x) | $10 each |
Complete an Emotional Well-Being Seminar (up to 4x) | $25 each |
Complete a Financial Well-Being Webinar (up to 4x) | $25 each |
*All rewards are considered taxable income and must be redeemed by 11/30/2021. To earn rewards, you must be an active employee or spouse on the UVA Health Plan or UPG Anthem Health Plan. The employee must be earning a paycheck at the time of redemption. Grant-funded postdoctoral fellows, retirees, COBRA enrollees, and their spouses in the UVA Health Plan are not eligible for monetary rewards
Please note: Each time you earn rewards in the Hoos Well portal, you are self-attesting that you have completed an activity. Please be aware that your reporting is subject to validation and audit from Virgin Pulse and/or the UVA Hoos Well Program.