HMA Employee Assistance Program – “Life Balance”
HMA offers employees and their household members an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) called “Life Balance” to help manage issues that could adversely impact their work and personal lives.
The issues for which “Life Balance” provides support vary, but examples include
- Substance abuse
- Safe working environment
- Emotional distress
- Major life events, including births, accidents and deaths
- Health care concerns
- Financial or legal concerns
- Family/personal relationship issues
- Work relationship issues
- Concerns about aging parents
Our employees’ well-being, productiveness and happiness depend on balancing life at home and life at work.
Help for Personal Challenges, Big and Small
Personal problems can occur unexpectedly, and unnecessary worrying can affect an employee’s health and professional life. HMA’s “Life Balance” program provides a team of consultants to assist its employees or their family members with confidential* information to:
- Locate schools, child care and elder care services and obtain matches to the appropriate provider based on an employee’s preferences and criteria (the consultant will even confirm space availability).
- Speak with financial experts by phone regarding issues such as budgeting, controlling debt, teaching children to manage money, investing for college and preparing for retirement.
- Work through complex, sensitive issues such as personal or work relationships, depression and substance abuse.
- Get a referral to a local attorney for a free, 30-minute legal consultation. Employees have access to an attorney for state-specific legal information and services. This includes a free 30-minute telephonic or in-person legal consultation (discounts may be available on additional services).
“Life Balance” Website Assistance
HMA employees also have unlimited website access at www.lifebalance.net where they can:
- Read books, life articles, and guides;
- View videos and listen to audio files online;
- Subscribe to customized e-mail newsletters;
- Find information through bulletin boards on parenting, retirement, finances, education and more;
- Use health management online calculators and other tools to help you with topics such as lossing weight or starting a new exercise program;
- Access links to other informative websites;
- Use school, camp, elder care and child care locators;
- Work with dozens of interactive financial and health calculators; and
- Read quick tips, retirement planners, worksheets and more.
HMA employees should contact their respective human resources department with any additional questions and for a user ID and password to access www.lifebalance.net
Balance is only a call or a click away:
1-800-854-1446, English
1-877-858-2147, Spanish
1-800-999-3004, TTY/TDD