The Provena Central Illinois Region’s HeartAware™ program, offered through Provena Covenant Medical Center in Urbana and Provena United Samaritans Medical Center, was recently chosen by Byrne Healthcare as a “top performer.”
Byrne Healthcare is an integrated healthcare consulting company with over 30 years of expertise, servicing over 300 clients in 38 states.
The Provena Central Illinois Region hospitals began offering HeartAware™, a seven-minute online heart disease risk assessment test, in February 2007. After completing the online assessment, each participant is given an immediate, personalized score that indicates overall risk of developing cardiovascular disease as well as ways to reduce that risk. All information is confidential.
If the individual’s score meets certain clinical criteria, then they are asked to participate in consultation with a nurse and further follow-up screenings and potentially, life-saving interventional treatment.
While the HeartAwareTM assessment is free and available to anyone, the Provena Central Illinois Region has focused much of its efforts to reaching out to local businesses as a way to provide preventative healthcare to their employees. According to Byrne Healthcare, Provena was recognized for total participation count, total at-risk participants, follow up screenings, and duration of marketing efforts, representing their commitment to early detection and prevention of heart disease.
“Provena sets the standard for hospitals reaching out to local organizations in lieu of traditional community advertising,” states Greg Gossett, President of Byrne Healthcare. “We have over 500,000 participants and over 85 providers nationally using HeartAwareTM, so this is particularly impressive given that the Central Illinois market size is considerably smaller than most participating hospitals.”
Following the initial success of HeartAwareTM, Provena expanded its available on-line assessment tools to include LungAwareTM, DiabetesAwareTM, SleepAwareTM, and more, encompassed as HealthAwareTM.
“We’re very proud that this program has been recognized with this distinguished award,” states Bob Sarkar, Regional Vice-President of Business & Strategic Development for Provena. “It reflects how we are truly living our mission of ‘building communities of healing and hope’ through community outreach, and disease prevention and detection.”
For more information on bringing Provena’s HealthAware to your business or community health fair, call 217-337-2593. To take any of the HealthAware risk assessments, visit www.provena.org/healthaware.
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