Optum makes it easier to ask for help
We know mental health and emotional well-being are just as important as physical health. That’s why we guide people to personalized care that fits their unique needs with solutions for everyday life.
Behavioral Health Solutions for Medicaid
Targeted programs improve individual health and recovery
Behavioral Health Solutions for Health Plans
Seamless integration to advance whole person health
Global Emotional Wellbeing Solutions
Support for everyday life via a modern employee assistance program
Behavioral Health Solutions for Employers
Personalized access to mental health care across a full range of needs
Insights
Help improve your health by decluttering
Tidying up can be good for both mind and body.
Help lower your stress levels with mindfulness
Pay attention to your thoughts and be in the moment.
Welcome to your community
Take a quick video tour through one of our Optum Care Community Centers in Arizona.
Until It’s Fixed: A Health Care Podcast – Season 3
Join us on the inspiring journey to create a healthier world — and make health care simpler and more effective for everyone
Until It's Fixed: A Health Care Podcast - Season 2
Hear how unifying data, creating partnerships and approaching problems in new ways are helping to create a healthier world.
Until it’s fixed podcast: Burnout
Join us as we kick off season 3 with a conversation that is top-of-mind for a lot of us right now: Burnout. Learn the causes, its effects and what to do about it.
Until it’s fixed podcast: Pajama time to reduce burnout
What is one thing you can do today to reduce burnout in your life? Dr. Maria Dahl offers tips we can all use.
Until it’s fixed podcast: Why we do therapy
In this episode, dig into the societal shift of talking more openly about seeing a therapist, how to find a therapist and the rise of app-based and teletherapy.
Until it’s fixed podcast: Mental health resources
In this bonus episode, learn some tips for how to define and narrow down the options you have for mental health resources — whether they’re in-person or online.
Until It's Fixed Podcast: Care for body, mind and spirit
Spirituality and religion play an important role in many people’s lives — but not everyone feels comfortable bringing them up with a doctor. Learn how to start.
Until It's Fixed Podcast: Write it down
In this episode, get tips for writing down how spirituality and/or religion affect your care preferences so you're prepared for the future.
Until It's Fixed Podcast: Black health
In this episode, explore the major health challenges facing the Black community, what needs to be done to improve health care and who's leading the way.
Until It's Fixed Podcast: Get your greens
What’s one thing you can do today to improve your eating habits at home? Learn how a variety of fruits and vegetables impact your overall health and well-being.
Until It's Fixed Podcast: Thinking differently
There is no 'normal' when it comes to the human brain- we all think, learn and experience the world uniquely.
Until It's Fixed Podcast: Working to be neuro-inclusive
What is one thing you can do today to encourage thinking differently at work?
Until It's Fixed Podcast: Talking trash
Learn how to have an honest and productive conversation about household chores.
Until It's Fixed Podcast: Seeing invisible labor
How we divide chores and childcare is an age-old problem, with women historically handling most of the work in the home.
Until It's Fixed Podcast: No place like home
In this episode, learn more about health care convenience and choice and the growing demand for it outside of a doctor’s office or hospital.
One thing today: step it up
Habit tracking can help keep you honest when working towards a health goal.
Until It’s Fixed Podcast: figuring out fertility
When it comes to your health, fertility isn’t always something that’s discussed.
Until It’s Fixed Podcast: together in health
We’re at the end of Season 3, and we’ve covered a lot of new ground on what’s being done to make health care work better for everyone.
Until It’s Fixed Podcast: your health and having kids
Fertility is something you may not think about until you’re ready to have children.
Addressing adolescent mental health
Find solutions and resources for employers and health plans to support adolescent and caregiver mental health.
Employee Assistance Program for Health Care Workers
Support workers who put others first every day.
2022 International Wellness in the Workplace Study
Optum surveyed large employers around the world to better understand current health and well-being strategies and practices. Explore findings from our survey.
Arkansas' New Approach to Medicaid Management
See how data and analytics help Arkansas manage one of the state's most vital and widely used government programs.
Mental Health: Optum Addresses the Great Information Divide
Explore the challenges and opportunities in mining mental health data for individuals and communities.
How has the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped work?
We surveyed large employers around the world to understand health and well-being strategies and practices. Find out what they said about offices and schedules.
Addressing the root causes of mental health disparities
Discover steps and strategies to reduce disparities among vulnerable populations and remove barriers for more equitable mental health care.
7 Strategies for Meeting More Mental Health Needs
Discover how to create an interconnected network of services that help people get properly diagnosed, access support and sustain progress.
Bring your wellness strategy to life for employees
Discover how partnering with a health promotion specialist can help you unlock creative ways to engage your employees with wellness programs and initiatives.
Optum Global EAP
The Optum Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) is a simple, seamless solution to support your global workforce.
Behavioral Health Provider Digital Access Survey | Optum
Health and wellbeing offerings attract and retain talent
See what our 2022 Global Employer Insights Survey says about health and wellbeing (H&W) strategies and practices to help recruitment and retention.
Getting ahead of the mental health crisis
See how leaders are advancing data strategies, screenings and exploring ways to connect consumers to mental health support.
Guiding Members To Treatment & Support
Helping Members Struggling With Substance Use Disorder.
Caring for clinicians: From burnout to wellness
CEO of Optum Care Solutions Dr. Patrick Conway explores how to move beyond burnout and focus on clinician wellness.
Supporting people when they need it most
Learn how Optum helped a member find support after a loss.
Tackling the youth mental health crisis
A board-certified adult, child and adolescent, and addiction psychiatrist discusses how to connect children and families to needed behavioral health solutions.
Youth mental health research findings
In our new report, you'll learn key findings about the mental health needs of young people and their caregivers, and discover opportunities for intervention.
What’s the biggest challenge to health and wellbeing programme success in EMEA?
When Optum surveyed 347 global employers, companies in EMEA said understanding employees’ needs was one of their main challenges.
How are global employers driving employee engagement in health and wellness programmes?
Optum surveyed 347 global employers to better understand current health and wellbeing (H&W) practices. Employers told us how they’re motivating employees to engage in their own wellbeing.
What’s the biggest challenge to health and wellbeing programme success in LATAM?
Employers in the LATAM region said employee physical and mental health are among the greatest challenges for their health and wellbeing (H&W) programmes. Find out what else we learned when Optum surveyed 347 global employers.
Build a Culture of Health in the APAC Region
By engaging region-specific expertise, your company can strategically improve the well-being of its employees.
Drive wellbeing programme utilisation
Strengthen your international wellbeing programme with an integrated health promotion specialist.
Support the four pillars of wellbeing
International wellness expert Rayson Ng shares how companies can design wellbeing programmes to build a culture of health.
Are Your Employees Checked Out or Mentally Present? | Optum
The key is to invest in wellbeing programmes that meet employees where they are — solutions for everyday life.
Do employers care about employee financial wellbeing?
We surveyed 347 global employers to learn more about the importance of employee financial health in health and wellbeing (H&W) strategy.
5 ways to improve employee well-being engagement
Discover 5 critical factors to ensure employees take advantage of your well-being offerings and engage with your wellness programs.
Hybrid work schedules impact employer H&W programmes
When we surveyed global employers, we found they are looking to increase the number of health and wellness (H&W) programmes they offer. Find out more.
Wellness Coaching helps motivate employees
As a wellness coach, I connect employees with tools and resources that align with their health and wellbeing goals.
Helping members achieve their goals
See how the right mental health care makes a difference.
Guided help for mental health support
We’re making it easier for people to access care.
Mental health support for youth and caregivers
Youth are struggling more than ever before with their mental health and well-being. We can help.
Support for your entire workforce
Invest in your organization’s most valuable asset — the people — with solutions for everyday life.
Emotional wellbeing support
Help your workforce take charge of their health, so they can be more resilient and present every day.
Supporting Youth Mental Health: On-Demand Webinar
Dr. Yusra Benhalim shares insights on the challenges we must overcome to reach youth.
Creating better behavioral health care
We help people find care and support that’s easy to understand and access.
Making a better future for mental health care
Guide members to the right behavioral health care when they need it.
Care Pathways study
Mental health specialists serve a critical role in reducing total cost of care for plan sponsors.
Supporting the unique needs of firefighters
When the Minnesota Fire Service needed emotional well-being support for their firefighters, Optum stepped in to help.
Addressing social determinants of health
Create solutions to eliminate barriers to care and support members.
Support for long-term recovery
Find substance use disorder treatment that includes evidence-based resources and compassionate care for members and their communities.
Support for substance use disorders
Expand access to evidence-based support to help individuals achieve stabilization and sustain recovery.
Supporting our kids
Mental health needs are increasing in youth. Experts share their insights on how to best support them so they can grow into healthy adults.
Faster access to mental health care
Give employees guaranteed access to mental health care with the Premium Network model from Emotional Wellbeing Solutions.
Support state Medicaid agency goals for members
Find out how a person-centered approach can help.
Personalized support for members with autism
Optum is breaking barriers in supporting members and families who are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Understanding college students' mental health needs
Read about the realities of campus behavioral health care and how we can make it better.
Working together to help end the opioid epidemic
Opioids are powerful drugs with a high risk of misuse and dependence. A comprehensive solution can help address this complex problem.
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