Wellness Pledge

2025 Wellness Pledge screening requirements:

1. Screenings must be filed through Murray State University insurance.
2. Screenings must take place between June 1, 2024 - May 31, 2025.
3. Proof of preventive screenings will be obtained through name only reports from Murray State benefit vendors. This means that Wellness Pledge participants' preventive screenings must be processed through health, vision and/or dental benefit offerings in order to receive Phase 1 credit. 

Acceptable preventive screenings 

• Annual wellness visit
• Cervical cancer screening (women's exam)
• Cholesterol screening
• Colon cancer screening
• Dental examination
• Dermatology skin screening
• Diabetes screening (fasting glucose)
• Heel scan bone density screening
• Mammogram
• Prostate cancer screening (PSA)
• Vision screening

• Freedom From Smoking courses are offered locally and completion of the course will count for a sanctioned event.
• Racer Wellness must receive documentation of completion from the course instructor.

Complete one of the many available training courses on the Wayne Corporation website.

1. Access the Wayne Corporation website, login or create a login and click on “training courses”.
2. Submit the certificate of completion (generated at the end) to msu.racerwellness@murraystate.edu for Wellness Pledge credit.

• Print out blood donation form.
• Fill out and have signed by a representative at your blood donation site.
• Submit form to Racer Wellness:
  • Email: msu.racerwellness@murraystate.edu
  • Fax: 270.809.4364
  • Campus Mail: 412 Sparks Hall 

Complete 6 Hinge Health Sessions

• 6 sessions must be completed between January 1, 2025 - May 31, 2025 to count for one event for Phase 1.
• Visit the Hinge Health website to learn more and sign up.
• Upon completion of your 6 sessions, visit the Racer Wellness form to fill out the dates of your 6 sessions and submit it to msu.racerwellness@murraystate.edu. 

Lunch and Learn (Zoom): Screening & Prevention Measures for Good Health and Wellness

Tuesday, February, 11 2025 | 12 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.

• Speaker: Dr. Summer Cross, School of Nursing and Health Professions
• This will count as a Phase 1 event for the 2025 Wellness Pledge
• Lunch and Learn Registration Form

• Eligible faculty and staff who participate in an Omada program can count 6 Omada touchpoints as an event for Phase 2. Touchpoints must take place between June 1, 2025 - September 30, 2025.
• Follow the link to learn more about the Omada program and determine eligibility
• Upon completion of your 6 touchpoints, visit the Racer Wellness form  to fill out the dates of your 6 touchpoints and submit it to msu.racerwellness@murraystate.edu

Total Cholesterol Screenings

• Wednesday, February 19, 2025 | 7:30am – 10:30am | Alexander Hall Atrium
• Thursday, February 20, 2025 | 7:30am – 10:30am | Alexander Hall Atrium
• Please click on the link below to get on the waiting list for a cholesterol appointment (appointment's are required)
  • Cholesterol Appointment - Waiting List

Let's Move! Lunch Break Walking Group 

Wednesdays - April 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 | 11:00am - 11:30am (check-in)

• Faculty and Staff are invited and encouraged to join Racer Wellness in walking on campus during the month of April
• Racer Wellness will have a sign-in table every Wednesday in April set up by the MSU Gates from 11:00am - 11:30am
• Upon sign-in, walking routes and times will be determined by each individual
• Attending the Walking Group will count as a maximum of one sanctioned event (regardless of how many weeks are attended) for Phase 1 of the 2025 Wellness Pledge
• If there is inclement weather, the event will be cancelled

• Print out blood donation form.
• Fill out and have signed by a representative at your blood donation site.
• Submit form to Racer Wellness:
  • Email: msu.racerwellness@murraystate.edu
  • Fax: 270.809.4364
  • Campus Mail: 412 Sparks Hall 

Watermelon Social - TBD

 Happening in July....more info to come!

• Eligible faculty and staff who participate in an Omada program can count 6 Omada touchpoints as an event for Phase 2. Touchpoints must take place between June 1, 2025 - September 30, 2025.
• Follow the link to learn more about the Omada program and determine eligibility
• Upon completion of your 6 touchpoints, visit the Racer Wellness form to fill out the dates of your 6 touchpoints and submit it to msu.racerwellness@murraystate.edu

Lunch and Learn - TBD

• Freedom From Smoking courses are offered locally and completion of the course will count for a sanctioned event.
• Racer Wellness must receive documentation of completion from the course instructor.

Complete one of the many available training courses on the Wayne Corporation website.

• Access the Wayne Corporation website, login or create a login and click on “training courses”.
• Submit the certificate of completion (generated at the end) to msu.racerwellness@murraystate.edu for Wellness Pledge credit.

Complete 6 Hinge Health Sessions

• 6 sessions must be completed between June 1, 2025 - September 30, 2025 to count for one event for Phase 2.
• Visit the Hinge Health website to learn more and sign up.
• Upon completion of your 6 sessions, visit the Racer Wellness form to fill out the dates of your 6 sessions and submit it to msu.racerwellness@murraystate.edu.