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Regence Adds Three Free Virtual Programs

[May 2, 2025] Regence is adding three free services to their lineup for Bright Wood Health & Wellness Plan members on June 1:

Virtual Physical Therapy
Virtual physical therapy is especially useful for people with back, knee, and pelvic pain.

Diabetes and Hypertension
The new Omada Health and Omada Prevention are for people with, or at risk of developing, diabetes or hypertension. Both free programs include:

  • A professional health coach for ongoing one-on-one guidance.
  • Smart devices (such as scales, blood pressure monitors, and/or glucose meters, depending on your program) for monitoring your health.
  • Weekly interactive lessons for self-managing diabetes and hypertension.
  • Access to an online community with similar health conditions and challenges for real-time encouragement, sharing, and support.

Empower Offering 12 Free Financial Webinars in 2025

[February 4, 2025] Knowledge is power, especially when it comes to your financial future. Bright Wood’s 401(k) bookkeeper, Empower, is offering free monthly online webinars in 2025 to help you get where you want to go.

You can register to attend a live seminar on a set day and time during the third week of the month or wait until month-end to watch a recorded session.

All workshops are offered in English and Spanish.

The first workshop, Building a Foundation of Financial Wellness, covered budgeting, debt, credit, saving, and using the Empower website.

To find the recordings and register for upcoming live sessions, log on to your account on Empower.com and then select “Learning Center” from the main menu.

Invest in yourself in 2025.

New: Three Free Health Care Visits Per Calendar Year

[April 24, 2024] Starting May 1, participants in Bright Wood’s Health and Wellness Plan (BWHWP) are entitled to three free in-office visits per calendar year with preferred providers for:

  • primary care treatment of injury or illness and/or
  • behavioral health treatment of mental health or chemical dependency

The three visits can be with different preferred providers and a combination of physical and mental health care.

On their fourth and subsequent visits, BWHWP participants who’ve met their deductible and are seeing a preferred provider will owe the following coinsurance payment per visit:

  • Plus Option: 20%
  • Basic Option: 30%
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Display of Lehigh shoe options

Happy Feet, Happy Wallet: Bright Wood Offering a $50 Subsidy for Better Footwear

[April 3, 2024] Bright Wood partnered with the feet experts at Lehigh CustomFit to help people find the footwear they need to feel better at the end of the day and avoid injuries.

Lehigh starts by scanning your feet in 3D. In just a few seconds, you will know your exact size and if you have any issues that can cause pain and fatigue. The tech will give you a card with your customized foot care recommendations. Lehigh may recommend:

  • Customized Aetrex orthotics to correct alignment problems causing foot, knee, and back pain.
  • OS1st compression socks to relieve foot and leg swelling.
  • The best-fitting shoe styles for your feet.

Bright Wood associates who purchase shoes, orthotics, or compression socks on the Brightwood.LehighSafetyShoes.com website are eligible for a $50 one-time subsidy. You can pay with a credit card or deduct the cost of your new footwear from your next paycheck (or split the cost between up to four pay periods).

Your friends and family can also purchase shoes, orthotics, and compression socks at the Bright Wood rate on the website. The True Fit app can help them find better-fitting shoes even without a foot scan.

60-Year-Old Tuition-Assistance Program Still Helping Bright Wood Families Today

[May 19, 2023] Bright Wood’s Children’s Educational Tuition Assistance Program (CETAP) provides financial assistance for post-high school education ranging from college to trade school for employees’ dependent children.

The company has distributed over $1 million in CETAP funds since the early 1960s when founder Carl Peterson established the program.

Contact Bright Wood’s Personnel Department at 541-475-7799 between 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. to learn more and apply.

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Need an Alternative Work Schedule?
Consider the Weekend Shift

[March 23, 2023] Several Madras plants have added --or soon will – weekend shifts that start on Friday and end on Sunday. These are 12-hour shifts, so you work 36 hours in three days and then have four days off. Weekenders qualify for full-time Bright Wood benefits.

 

Eye Safety Starts Before You Get Out of Your Car

By Jim Sanders, Safety Manager

[March 9, 2023] Bright Wood has suffered 17 recordable incidents in the last three years involving an object in someone’s eye. In other words, five to six people suffer eye injuries annually.

History shows the majority of our eye injuries occur outside. If everyone wore their eye protection as soon as they arrived at work (before leaving their vehicles) and continued wearing it until they returned to their cars after work, we’d all be a lot safer. This is in fact, Bright Wood policy.

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Prescription safety glasses

Making Prescription Safety Glasses Affordable

[August 22, 2022] Oregon Bright Wood associates are now eligible to purchase prescription safety glasses from Walmart’s Vision Centers in Redmond and Bend at a substantial discount.

Bright Wood will pay for the prescription lenses for your new safety glasses while you are only responsible for purchasing the frames, which run from $9 up to $29.

To participate, you need to present the Walmart Vision Center with:

  • A voucher that is only available from Bright Wood's Personnel Department
  • A valid vision prescription

Call Bright Wood’s Personnel Department at 541-475-7799 with questions.