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CHS Opens New VANGUARD Clinic

Comprehensive Health Services, Inc. (CHS) is now serving 9,000 Vanguard employees at its corporate headquarters in Malvern, Pa. The newly constructed onsite health center is a 4,500 square foot facility with six exam rooms, lab, and PT/rehab.

The workplace health program provides primary care and urgent care access as well as preventative care, on-site health coaching, and support of chronic health conditions.  According to a CHS press release, this program will emphasize cooperation and integration by the on-site health center and Vanguard’s other health care providers.  From our experience, this is a challenge since many of the corporations that are employing on-site programming have existing national contracts with disease state management firms, personal health record vendors, data consolidators, etc.  More often than not, the on-site vendor is either ignoring o duplicating services of this nature.  It sounds like Vanguard and CHS are addressing coordination head on and it will be interesting to see where they are after six months of vendor collaboration.

Some of the areas that CHS will be monitoring and attempting to address are populations with musculoskeletal and low back pain, diabetes, and cardiac disease. The partnership between CHS and existing Vanguard vendors will be monitoring the employees’ progress in setting and reaching their clinical and behavioral goals.

CHS has a variety of sophisticated tools that it can use to bring resources to bear on population management.  They apparently now have a partner that can appreciate these resources and, with 9,000 employees, there has to be an impact.  We will hopefully be able to see some important data from the Vanguard/CHS project within a few months and, if they share it, we will be sure to let everyone know how it turns out.