Virgin HealthMiles provides employee health programs that pay people to get active. The company’s Pay-for-Prevention™ approach, based on physical activity and healthy lifestyle change, attracts an average of 40% of employees who participate in the program regularly, which helps organizations reduce medical costs and improve employee productivity and satisfaction. Virgin HealthMiles excels in getting members engaged and active in the process of getting healthy so they can make measureable changes to their health. The result is great productivity and lower long-term health care costs, which boost the company’s bottom line. The program is offered by employers, government entities, insurers and other network partners, such as health clubs. The company is a member of Sir Richard Branson’s world-renowned Virgin Group.

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The Strategies to Overcome and Prevent Obesity (STOP) Alliance is a collaboration of consumer, provider, government, labor, business, health insurers and quality-of-care organizations united to drive innovative and practical strategies that combat obesity.

The STOP Obesity Alliance is directed by Associate Professor Christine C. Ferguson, J.D., P.I. of The George Washington University’s Department of Health Policy and former Health Commissioner for the State of Massachusetts. The Alliance Steering Committee is comprised of the following public and private sector organizations: the American Diabetes Association, American Heart Association, America’s Health Insurance Plans, American Medical Group Association, Canyon Ranch Institute, CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity (DNPAO), DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance, National Business Group on Health, National Quality Forum, Partnership for Prevention, Reality Coalition, Service Employees International Union and Trust for America’s Health.

The Alliance is sponsored by sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC, a world leader in the pharmaceutical industry with a commitment to improving public health and a heritage in therapeutic areas including cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.

The Institute for Health and Productivity Management (IHPM) is a global research and development enterprise devoted to establishing the value of health in the workplace as a human capital investment that improves business performance. IHPM pursues its mission through conferences around the world, Academies that teach the health and productivity model to small groups, publications including a quarterly magazine and a peer-reviewed journal, and field projects to demonstrate the value of health as a business asset. IHPM works with all the stakeholders in health care – employers and their employees, health service providers, health plans, pharmaceutical manufacturers and governments – to advance health and productivity management as a strategy for economic advantage and social well being.

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Deborah Love
480.305.2100