Rosa Novo

Administrative Benefits Director

Miami Dade County Public Schools

Rosa Novo is the Employee Benefits Director at Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Florida, where she has been creating strategic health and wellness programs for the 4th largest School Board in the nation for 31 years. Mrs. Novo is responsible for the administration of the District’s self-insured healthcare plan which is the second largest expenditure in the District. The annual cost of offering healthcare coverage to 71,000 covered lives (37,000 employees plus dependents and 6,000 retirees plus dependents) is $360 million. Her wellness focus is to increase awareness of both benefits and personal health status while establishing and maintaining a workplace that encourages environmental and social support for a healthy lifestyle.

Speaker Questionnaire

What are your top priorities for employee health and well-being in 2022?

To engage employees in wellness, and annual preventive physicals. Additionally, to understand the benefits being offered and resources inclusive of those supporting behavioral health.

What are the most innovative programs that you will focus on in 2022 and 2023?

We have created quarterly Health/Wellness Pillars for the year. In each we have communication and programs that we are launching to focus on preventive chronic management.

Looking at our three moonshots surrounding costs, culture, and care, which do you align with the most? What are you doing in this area?

Its extremely difficult to choose one, we are aligned with all three being that they are all intertwin in how we delivery the message/service and the consumer experience/result.

If you could automatically receive a 25% reduction in costs in three areas/programs, what would your dream list be?

Pharmacy, hospital in-patient services and overall cost.

Is there an area where you were able to either create savings or stop costs from rising?

There are many areas being that we have reduced our overall cost but the cost per unit service continues to increase, plus cost associated with Covid.

Are you doing anything to reimagine corporate culture and wellbeing?

We are launching our own Chronic Management Program by offering personalize education to our employees at their worksite.

If there were two physical solutions that could be turned into virtual or remote care instead, what would those be?

Our virtual utilization like with many other employers/clients have increased as a result of COVID. So non at this present time.

If you look at our 3 Moonshots - Costs, Culture, and Care; In one sentence, tell us what would be something positive for us to take from 2020 and bring into this new year?

Care. This pandemic has unfortunately shed light on the importance of preventive services and overall well-being.

Sessions Speaking

Mental Health – The Boiling Point

April 26, 2022

4:00 pm

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4:50 pm

Discover how you should shift your perceptions, what to offer your employees, and who you should be working with. Through this session, you’ll learn how to approach different social classes, generations age, genders, and races and what’s most effective for the most vulnerable groups within your workforce. We’ll show you the path to comprehensive and inclusive mental health solutions for all.

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1 Conference. 3 Moonshots.

Remember the mission to reach the moon? In 1962, President JFK set forth a vision. He initiated a movement that outlived him! Even in his death, the mission was accomplished seven years after his famous speech. Now we’re on a five-year mission, and it's not about us. This is a mission for you – the individual, the stakeholder, the employer healthcare and benefits professional. Join the mission to reduce costs, reimagine culture, and reinvent care.