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Saint Joseph Mercy Health System Selects Aegis Health Group to Bring Health-Management Initiatives to Local Employers

Posted on: Monday, 3 March 2008, 09:01 CST

NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Saint Joseph Mercy Health System, one of Michigan's premiere healthcare systems, is partnering with Nashville-based Aegis Health Group to offer health-improvement initiatives to local employers and their employees. Aegis, the nation's leading healthcare business development company, assists hospitals in ascertaining employees' health risks and effectively linking medical centers' programs and services with identified health-related needs.

Aegis provides the tools and experience along with an employer relations specialist who will reside within the medical center to coordinate the effort. Through this partnership, it is expected that employee health will be improved while employer healthcare costs will be reduced. Employers participating in these programs repeatedly recognize significant dollar savings in employee health costs, absenteeism, healthcare premiums, workers' compensation and other healthcare-related expenditures. Aegis' program can currently be found in more than 4,000 employer sites across the country.

Using data gathered through personal health profiles, Saint Joseph Mercy Health System will match at-risk employees with appropriate early detection, prevention and education initiatives offered by the hospitals and health centers.

"As a leading healthcare provider in southeast Michigan, we want to help people better manage their health by providing programs that specifically address their unique needs," said Steve Paulus, vice president of planning and business development for Saint Joseph Mercy Health System. "The timing couldn't be better, as employers are actively looking for ways to reduce health-related costs."

About Saint Joseph Mercy Health System

Saint Joseph Mercy Health System, a member of Trinity Health, is a health care organization serving Washtenaw, Livingston, Jackson, Lenawee, Monroe, western Wayne and southwestern Oakland counties. It includes 529-bed St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, St. Joseph Mercy Saline Hospital with 82 beds, St. Joseph Mercy Livingston Hospital in Howell with 136 beds and St. Mary Mercy Hospital in Livonia with 304 beds. Combined, the four hospitals are licensed for 1,051 beds, employ more than 8,400 individuals and have a medical staff of nearly 1,500 physicians.

Satellite sites include three Brighton facilities, Saint Joseph Mercy Woodland Health Center and Urgent Care, Saint Joseph Mercy Woodland Cancer Center, Saint Joseph Mercy Canton Health Center and Urgent Care, and Saint Joseph Mercy Maple Urgent Care in Ann Arbor.

For more information on health services offered at Saint Joseph Mercy Health System, please visit http://www.sjmercyhealth.org/.

About Aegis Health Group

Aegis Health Group's 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. For nearly 20 years, Aegis has assisted hospitals with business development initiatives. No other company has been able to match Aegis' breadth of services, track record and bottom-line proven performance when it comes to building relationships between hospitals and area employers. Further information may be obtained at http://www.aegisgroup.com/.

Aegis Health Group

CONTACT: Carol Stevenson, +1-818-597-8453, ext. 3, carols@kevinross.net,for Aegis Health Group

Web site: http://www.aegisgroup.com/http://www.sjmercyhealth.org/

Source: PRNewswire

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