Learn how to make your own pumpkin puree from scratch! Ditch the can and try this easy recipe with only one ingredient, pumpkins! Recipe HERE+
Healthtop Wellbeing Program
We meet people where they are and create opportunities for connection, discovery, and growth.
Join the No Gain Holiday Challenge!
This season, commit to maintaining your weight from Thanksgiving through New Year’s!
Stay focused on your wellness goals, keep those healthy holiday habits in check, and start the New Year feeling your best.
Hilltop values your wellbeing and wants to help you discover what wellbeing means to you. The Hilltop Wellbeing Program is here to provide you with fun activities, engaging challenges, and valuable tools and resources to enhance your wellbeing. Explore this page for everything wellbeing-related, meet your Wellness Champions, and stay up to date with the latest and greatest offerings from our Wellbeing Program!
Monthly Happenings
Enhance your wellbeing this month! Check out the various wellness challenges and activities for you to participate in.
Wellbeing Program Update
As we prepare for the next chapter of our Wellbeing Program, we’ll be taking a short break from our regular Wellbeing Wednesday emails and monthly activities.
This pause will allow us to plan an enhanced HealthTop experience, set to launch in 2025!
We look forward to returning with fresh ideas to support your wellbeing.
Hilltop Happenings
Explore the new Hilltop Happenings Calendar! This calendar brings together all Hilltop activities in one convenient place, giving you a complete view of everything happening across our organization.
Wellbeing Workshops
Unlock your potential with our engaging workshops! Dive into a variety of topics designed to boost your health and happiness. Explore our upcoming workshops below and sign up today!
Wellbeing Resources
The Hilltop Wellbeing Program focuses on some of the different dimensions of wellbeing; physical, social, mental, spiritual, and financial. Whether you’re looking to improve your fitness, build meaningful connections, enhance your mental clarity, deepen your spiritual practices, or achieve financial stability, we have the tools and support you need. Explore our resources today and take a holistic approach to your well-being.
Viva Engage is a great way to stay connected to your fellow Hilltoppers. Check out the different wellbeing communities that are on Viva Engage to stay up to date, post, comment, and share away!
Financial Wellbeing
SmartDollar is a comprehensive platform that empowers individuals to take control of their money and build a secure financial future. Hilltoppers get a FREE SmartDollar acount, sign up today with the code: hhs8819.
Physical Wellbeing
As a Hilltop employee you can get a discount on your membership when you join one of the gyms listed below!
- Crossroads Fitness (Grand Junction) has an inventive based discount. If you sign up for a membership and frequent the gym 8 or more times, you get $10 off your monthly fee, and $5 off if you go 4 times.
- Hotworx (Grand Junction and Montrose) offers a $1 enrollment fee, $44/monthly membership and 15% of all retail items.
- Revolution Cycle (Grand Junction) offers 10% off monthly rates or class packs.
Environmental Wellbeing
We’re excited to collaborate with the City of Grand Junction for a 6-month Lunch & Learn Sustainability Series! Each month, we explore a different sustainability initiative that the city is championing. Curious about the city’s efforts to foster a more sustainable future? Visit their website and explore local resources to discover how you can adopt eco-friendly practices in your daily life.
Mental Wellbeing
At Hilltop, your mental wellbeing is a priority, and we’re dedicated to providing the support and resources you need. Starting this September, the Mental Health & Suicide Prevention Committee is launching a year-long campaign to break the stigma surrounding mental health and offer you tools, resources, training, and education to enhance your mental wellbeing.
Spiritual Wellbeing
Jef Ray, Hilltop’s Chaplain, is here to support you as a Hilltopper by offering a nonjudgmental space to talk through personal or professional challenges. Whether you need advice, a listening ear, or just someone to vent to, Jef is here for you. To schedule a time to talk, email jefr@htop.org.
Recipes
Discover recipes featured in Wellbeing Wednesday emails, including favorites shared by your fellow Hilltoppers! If you have a recipe you love or recently enjoyed, we’d love for you to share it with us!
Flourless Pumpkin Bars
Ingredients 1 overripe medium banana ¾ cup creamy almond butter* ½ cup pumpkin puree ¼ cup pure maple syrup 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 tbsp coconut flour 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice 1 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp baking soda ¼ tsp fine sea salt Optional: ⅓ cup chocolate chips and/or...
Healthy Pumpkin Cookies
Ingredients 2 1/2 cups rolled oats 2 cups pumpkin puree not pumpkin pie filling 1/4 cup maple syrup can use agave nectar Instructions Preheat the oven to 180C/350F and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. In a large mixing bowl, combine the oats, pumpkin,...
Hilltop’s Medical Plan Discount
Depending on your Hilltop insurance plan, you can earn a discount that is applied to each paycheck. Check out the information below, and fill out the short questionanaire to save some money!
Discounts By Insurance Plan
- Employee Only Plan: $17.50 per paycheck
($35 per month) discount - Employee + Spouse, or Employee + Children plan: $22.50 per paycheck ($45 per month) discount
- Employee + Family plan: $25.oo per paycheck
($50 per month) discount
Questionnaire Details
- This should take no longer than 10 minutes to complete.
- Questions will cover basic contact information, what plan you have selected, and a couple questions about what is included in your medical insurance (answers can be found in the benefits guide). If you have additional members on your plan please have the names of their primary care providers ready.
- This form only needs to be filled out once for the entire year unless you have a qualifying event and need to add members to your plan.
Meet the Hilltop Wellness Champions
Anna Cubel
Fave summer snack: fruit, roasted corn
Best song to get your energy up: “Walking on Sunshine” by Katrina and the Waves
Fave way to move your body: Dancing, golf, Hiking/Nature walk
Dana Vanderhurst
Fave way to destress: Swimming after work 3-4x a week
Gym or outdoor activity: Depends. Here, in Colorado, I swim at the gym. If I am doing yardwork, it will be outside
Health hack: to fall asleep I only use my phone/device to read a book that I have downloaded and not social media or streaming service
Teresha Taylor
Fave way to move your body: I love exercise platforms that include dance
What has been your favorite Healthop workshop or class: Smarter with Carter and any type of craft workshop
Best song to get your energy up: Anything 80’s alternative like Depeche Mode, OMD, & Oingo Boingo
Abby Leinbach
Fave way to destress: Taking a walk or reading
Gym or outdoor activity: Both! I love walking and hiking, and I love my gym workouts
Best song to get your energy up: Gasolina – Daddy Yankee
Joanna Earich
Fave way to move your body: I love hiking, swimming, yoga, and weight lifting
What has been your favorite Healthop workshop or class: I have enjoyed the Cooking Matter classes and the sustainability workshops
Gym or outdoor activity: I love both but do more outside
Karen Kirkman
Fave way to destress: cook a healthy meal and eat with my family
Fave way to move your body: hula hooping, hiking
Health hack: always push yourslef physically & mentally. Make your own challenges so when life puts you to the test you are ready for it
Rochelle Gudder
Favorite way to destress after a long day: Hanging out with my dog, Iris, and two cats, Grom and Kyo!
Gym or Outdoor Activity? I love both! I love group exercise classes, but I also love being outside and smelling the fresh air while doing a fun activity like hiking, mountain biking, or floating the river.
Best song to get your energy up? I’m a Swiftie, and love the power songs from her Reputation album, but I also love a good groovy song that makes me want to dance!
Leather Bang
Gym or outdoor activity?: Outdoor activity – paddle boarding
Health hack: Blending veggies into sauces or subbing veggie noodles when making pasta. It helps to get the kids and me eating the right stuff.
Favorite Health Top workshop or class?: I’ve been enjoying the sustainability series, I’m very excited to check out the refillery in town.
For questions or concerns contact Rochelle Gudder, Employee Wellbeing Coordinator at rochelleg@htop.org or call
(970) -244-0430
Social Wellbeing