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New Online Services from LifeCare® Help
Clients Minimize Health Risks, Reduce Medical Expenses
Work/Life Offers Ideal Platform for Corporate Health and
Wellness Initiatives
WESTPORT, Conn., July 20, 2004 – Clients of LifeCare, Inc.,
the exclusive provider of Life Event Management® Services, can
now sign up for two new web-based services designed to help them improve the
health of their employees while reducing medical expenses for the organization
and employees alike. The new services are a state-of-the-art Health Risk Assessment
(HRA) tool and a suite of interactive Healthy Living Programs (HLPs), which
are being offered by LifeCare in partnership with two highly respected organizations:
Miavita, a leader in the delivery of action-oriented health programs, and Gordian
Health Solutions, a leading creator of results-oriented wellness and disease
management solutions.
The HRA generates a detailed report of an employee's health
risk factors and recommends tests, medical services and lifestyle changes to
minimize future risks. The online HLPs are action-oriented, six-week programs
that address a variety of health issues such as cancer, diabetes, smoking, stress,
diet and nutrition. What makes LifeCare's integrated offering truly unique is
the fact that the HRA delivers a comprehensive risk report and action plan with
direct links to the specific HLPs that individuals can immediately enroll in
to begin improving their health.
“That's the true power of our integrated health and wellness
offerings—enabling employees to take immediate, positive action to reduce
their particular health risks,” says LifeCare CEO, Peter G. Burki. “We're offering
a level of immediacy and personalization that other providers simply don't match.
And we believe that this makes a tremendous difference in the quality of the
service we provide and in the success rates of clients and employees who are
serious about managing and reducing their health risks and overall costs.”
Work/Life - The Perfect Platform
Burki notes that LifeCare has been diligently enhancing its
health and wellness content for the past several months, adding thousands of
articles and a host of online tools such as a health encyclopedia, a symptom
checker, a drug database and more. The reason behind this renewed focus on health
and wellness?
“It's simple,” Burki states. “Work/life is an ideal platform
for offering health and wellness programs to employees. In too many organizations,
these programs are offered through the organizations' medical carriers and this
creates problems. First of all, these carriers typically don't promote health
and wellness programs with regularity or with much creativity. The programs
simply go unnoticed and unused. And second, many employers have multiple medical
carriers, none of which deliver exactly the same health and wellness programs.
So there's a lack of consistency in what's being offered to employees—and
no way to get company-wide wellness reporting. In other organizations, employees
have medical coverage through a spouse, so they're not even eligible to take
advantage of particular health programs.” No such problem exists when health
and wellness programs are delivered through a work/life platform, Burki says.
“Work/life offerings reach everyone in an organization, so a platform such as
LifeCare's can deliver the best possible results in terms of consistency and
utilization.”
LifeCare also offers clients health and wellness resource and
referral, online content from Healthwise, on-site screenings, fitness club subsidy
administration, discounts on health and wellness products and services, and
on-site seminars to help employers provide well-rounded, uniform wellness programs
to employees.
“We're absolutely delighted to be partnering with Miavita and
Gordian, two organizations that are widely known for their quality and their
commitment to people,” Burki says. “Like LifeCare, they're dedicated to helping
people improve their quality of life, both on and off the job.”
In May of 2003, Miavita was awarded Health Web Site Accreditation
by URAC, an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes quality and accountability
in online health information and services. Gordian Health Solutions has created
more than 270 custom Health Risk Assessments for clients throughout the world.
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