Health Systems in Nevada and Arizona Select Nashville-Based Aegis to Bring Wellness Programs to Local Employers
Posted on: Monday, 22 October 2007, 09:01 CDT
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Valley Health System, soon to be a five-hospital system in Las Vegas, and Scottsdale Healthcare, representing three hospitals and several other healthcare facilities in Arizona, have tapped Aegis to bring valuable wellness programs to local employers. Aegis has been helping the nation's hospitals grow market share through employer-based wellness programs for nearly 20 years. Using Aegis' proprietary tools and proven methodology, hospitals are able to link their specific programs and services with the unique needs of employees in the communities they serve.
Through these agreements, Aegis will provide each system with a trained "employer relations specialist" that will work within the hospitals to oversee the program on a day-to-day basis. These employer relations specialists utilize such Aegis-developed tools as Health Information Centers, health-related displays located within the workplace; Personal Health Profiles, surveys of personal health history; and Personal Health Reports, detailed analyses of the data from the surveys.
The information collected from the Personal Health Profiles enables the hospitals at The Valley Health System and Scottsdale Healthcare to offer appropriate early detection, prevention and education initiatives. The program is designed to help improve employee health while reducing employer healthcare costs. Employers participating in these programs repeatedly recognize significant dollar savings in employee health costs, absenteeism, healthcare premiums, workers' compensation and other healthcare-related expenditures.
"The Aegis program complements the many noteworthy programs that both The Valley Health System and Scottsdale Healthcare are already offering to the communities they serve," said Henry Ross, Aegis CEO. "When hospitals proactively partner with local employers, it creates a triple win -- employees become healthier, employers are able to reduce health-related expenditures and the health systems take an even more active role in protecting and promoting the health of the local residents."
About Scottsdale Healthcare
Established in 1962 and governed by a local board of directors, Scottsdale Healthcare is the not-for-profit parent organization of the Scottsdale Healthcare Shea, Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn and Scottsdale Healthcare Thompson Peak hospitals; the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center; Scottsdale Clinical Research Institute; Scottsdale Home Health Services; and Scottsdale Healthcare Community Health Services. They have some 5,900 staff members and 2,050 active physicians representing more than 50 specialties. Supporting their efforts is a corps of 1,200 volunteers who donate more than 175,000 hours of service each year. For more information, visit http://www.shc.org/.
About The Valley Health System
The Valley Health System comprises four hospitals: Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center, Spring Valley Hospital Medical Center, Summerlin Hospital Medical Center and Valley Hospital Medical Center. A fifth hospital, Centennial Hills Hospital Medical Center, will be added in late 2007 to provide consumers in the greater Las Vegas area with a more comprehensive network of quality healthcare facilities. The Valley Health System is owned and operated by a subsidiary of Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS), a King of Prussia, Pennsylvania-based company that is one of the largest healthcare management companies in the nation. For more information, visit http://www.valleyhealthsys.com/.
About Aegis
Aegis' national client base includes more than 60 for-profit, not-for-profit and academic medical centers that have turned to Aegis to enhance bottom-line profitability by driving top-line growth. These programs can currently be found in more than 4,000 employer sites across the country. Since pioneering the concept of employer-directed marketing in 1989, no other company has been able to match Aegis' breadth of services, track record and bottom-line proven performance when it comes to employer-directed marketing. Further information may be obtained at http://www.aegisgroup.com/.
Aegis
CONTACT: Carol Stevenson, +1-818-597-8453, ext. 3, carols@kevinross.net,for Aegis
Web site: http://www.aegisgroup.com/http://www.valleyhealthsys.com/http://www.shc.org/
Source: PRNewswire
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