NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, Texas, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- North Hills Hospital announced today that it has engaged Nashville-based Aegis to assist the facility in a new community-based effort designed to improve local community health and save local employers significant dollars in their healthcare expenditures. Located in North Richland Hills, Texas, North Hills Hospital serves the growing population of the Mid-Cities area between Dallas and Fort Worth.
The new initiative has been designed to effectively link the hospital’s services and programs with the health-related needs of local employers and their workforce. Working in partnership, North Hills Hospital, Aegis and local employers will identify the health risks of local employees related to specific diseases (heart, cancer, diabetes, etc.) and then match at-risk employees with hospital-based early detection, prevention and education initiatives. This will be the only program of its kind in the community.
In support of this effort, Aegis will provide the hospital with its proprietary software and Internet applications as well as Aegis’ employer- based Health Information Centers, Personal Health Surveys and Personal Health Reports, which have been road tested in more than 7,000 employer sites across the United States. Aegis will also provide a full-time “Employer Relations Specialist” who will be stationed at North Hills Hospital to oversee this program on a day-to-day basis.
“We view this program as still one more way that North Hills Hospital can make a positive and important impact on our community,” said Chief Financial Officer Glenn Wallace. “Working with local employers in this manner will improve the health of the local community, dramatically lessen employee health costs, and better match the services we are providing with the most important needs of our constituencies.”
One of the primary benefits to local employers is the direct cost savings this program has proven to bring. At a time when healthcare costs are one of the single biggest expenses many employers face, partnering with the local hospital in this way has been shown in more than 70 markets nationwide to save employers meaningful dollars in employee health costs, absenteeism, healthcare premiums, workers’ compensation and other healthcare-related expenditures.
North Hills Hospital is a 144-bed acute-care facility providing such services as advanced diagnostics, dialysis, ICU, PCU, lithotripsy, pediatric services, rehabilitation medicine, transitional care, women’s services and cardiovascular services. The hospital’s emergency department, which witnessed a major expansion and renovation in 1999, sees more than 40,000 patient visits annually.
Since pioneering the concept of employer-directed marketing in 1989, no other company focused on such alternative marketing has been able to match Aegis’s breadth of services, track record and bottom-line proven performance. The company’s national client base includes for-profit, not-for-profit and academic medical centers that have turned to Aegis to enhance bottom-line profitability by driving top-line growth. Further information on Aegis may be obtained at http://www.aegisgroup.com/.
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CONTACT: Ross Goldberg, 818-597-8453, for Aegis
Web site: http://www.aegisgroup.com/
