School workers offered Anthem health coaches

PORTLAND – Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield and its foundation hope to transfer experience gleaned from business health plans to school districts.

Officials say health coaches will work one-on-one with schoolteachers and staff to reduce health risks and thereby improve workers’ health and lower health care costs in school districts in Gardiner, Hampden, Readfield and Topsham.

The two-year project is open to teachers and other district staff who have elected to take the health insurance benefit offered by their school district.