LEWISTON — Healthy Androscoggin recognized this year’s Work Healthy Award-winning businesses during the Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce breakfast at Lost Valley on April 10.

This year’s 37 winning businesses employ nearly 9,000 employees across Androscoggin County. The Work Healthy Award program recognizes businesses for their wellness efforts in supporting tobacco-free and substance-free lifestyles, physical activity, healthy eating and breastfeeding in the workplace. Employers who support the wellness of their employees benefit from higher morale, reduced absenteeism and better control of health care costs.

This year’s Gold Award winners were: Austin Associates P.A., Central Maine Healthcare, Central Maine Orthopaedics, Central Maine Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program, Community Concepts, The Dingley Press, Geiger, General Electric, Northeast Bank, Norway Savings Bank, Occupational Medical Consulting, Procter & Gamble Tambrands, Schooner Estates, St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center, Sun Journal, Thayer Corporation and University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College.

Silver Award recipients were: Androscoggin Bank, Androscoggin Head Start and Child Care, Bangor Savings Bank, City of Lewiston, Evergreen Subaru, FISC Solutions, Good Shepherd Food-Bank, Mechanics Savings Bank, Safe Voices, Staff Management Office 0117 and Tri-County Mental Health Services.

Bronze Award recipients were: Advocates for Children, Androscoggin Home Care and Hospice, Auburn-Lewiston YMCA, Canteen Service Co., Central Maine Community College, Mountain Machine Works, Rainbow Federal Credit Union and Western Maine Community Action.

Merit Award recipient was Paris Farmers Union.

Healthy Androscoggin is a community coalition and Healthy Maine Partnership funded in part by the Fund for a Healthy Maine. For more information on how businesses can develop a worksite wellness plan, call Katherine Lary at 330-7881 or visit www.healthyandroscoggin.org.