First Affordable Solution for Any Size Work Location
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Oct. 13, 2010 -- Hooper Holmes (NYSE Amex:HH) today introduced Hooper Holmes OnSite(SM), the first affordable health coaching solution for work locations of all sizes.
Since 2007 Hooper Holmes Health & Wellness has been helping wellness, disease management and managed care companies extend the reach of their health management programs. Expanding into embedded health coaching is in response to requests by clients to assist in increasing engagement in the programs they offer their customers by adding face-to-face interventions.
Competitive Advantage for Health and Care Management Companies
"Hooper Holmes' network of local medical professionals puts us in a unique position to drive engagement into our customers' programs. Hooper Holmes OnSite is the first affordable, face-to-face, on-premises health coaching service for work locations with any number of employees," said Christopher J. Behling, President of Hooper Holmes Health and Wellness.
"Many corporate wellness programs have assumed employees would respond to education and publicity, but more is needed. True engagement means matching the right intervention strategy with the right participant at the right time. Face-to-face interventions deliver results because they combine the best of disease management and lifestyle coaching with a focus on behavior change and motivation," he continued.
Hooper Holmes OnSite is available now as part of Hooper Holmes Health & Wellness' comprehensive suite of services including scheduling support, fulfillment of supplies, blood collection kits, medical screenings, lab testing, and data transmission. Coaching is provided to address lifestyle factors including weight management, nutrition, activity, stress management, smoking cessation, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, high cholesterol, hypertension, and sleep.
Health Champions are Engagement and Behavior Change Specialists
Hooper Holmes' Health Champions receive in-person, professional training. Many are physical therapists, personal trainers and nutritionists. The services they provide include:
Personalized, individual engagement sessions Healthy lifestyle counseling in behaviors, barriers and motivators Worksite assessments Progress reports with measurable results Monthly 'lunch and learn" seminars
"Simply put, people need to be motivated to participate in health management programs. Our Health Champions are trained to help," said Behling.
About Hooper Holmes
Hooper Holmes is a leader in collecting personal health data and transforming it into useful information, enabling customers to take actions that manage or reduce their risks and expenses. With a network of thousands of examiners, Hooper Holmes can arrange medical exams anywhere in the U.S. and deliver the results to its customers. Hooper Holmes provides a complete service for wellness, disease management, and managed care companies including scheduling support, fulfillment of supplies, blood collection kits, medical screenings, lab testing, and data transmission. The Company also provides the Diabetes Know Now! program, which combines an online diabetes risk assessment and at-home diabetes laboratory test kit to help people gauge their risk for having or developing diabetes.
This press release contains "forward-looking" statements, as such term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on the Company's current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements are our ability to successfully implement our business strategy; uncertainty as to our working capital requirements over the next 12 to 24 months; our ability to maintain compliance with the financial covenant in our credit facility; our expectations regarding our operating cash flows; and the rate of life insurance application activity. Additional information about these and other factors that could affect the Company's business is set forth in the Company's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 12, 2010. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or release any revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law.