BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Aug 06, 2009 -- Hooper Holmes (NYSE Amex:HH) today announced the appointment of Suzanne L. Cabrera, MN, RN as Director of Clinical Services for the Company's Health & Wellness division. Ms. Cabrera will oversee the training, skills development and quality of the screening services delivered by the division's nationwide network of examiners.
Ms. Cabrera holds a Master of Nursing degree from the University of Washington and is a Registered Nurse with an educational and professional background in occupational and community health. She has served as an Occupational Health Nurse at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle, WA, and as an Occupational Health Registered Nurse at the Hospital of Saint Raphael in New Haven, CT.
"We are committed to the growth and development of the examiners who have made our division a success," said Chris Behling, President of Hooper Holmes Health and Wellness. "Suzanne will support our examiners' continued development, and provide the clinical foundation we need to serve our growing base of healthcare customers."
Hooper Holmes Health & Wellness also launched the first examiner scheduling web portal, making it possible for eligible examiners to easily schedule themselves for wellness screening events.
The Examiner Portal shows examiners upcoming screenings in their area, provides resources needed to complete the screenings (including paperwork, mapping capabilities, and screening guidelines), and allows examiners to track the screenings they have completed. The Portal also sends email alerts to examiners when new screenings are available in their area.
"Meeting examiners on their terms is a key to our continued success," said Chris Behling. "We're making it possible for examiners to control their schedules. The Portal also streamlines our process: over 20% of our screenings already have been self-scheduled by examiners, improving our efficiency and speed."
Examiners interested in utilizing the Portal or in becoming Hooper Holmes examiners can sign up at http://examiners.hooperholmes.com.
About Hooper Holmes Health & Wellness
Hooper Holmes' Health and Wellness Division leverages Hooper Holmes' unique set of assets to provide a complete biometric screening service for Health & Care Management companies. Health & Wellness provides scheduling support, fulfillment of supplies, blood collection kits, medical screenings, lab testing and data transmission. By leveraging a network of over 9,000 examiners and a wholly owned reference lab with medical device manufacturing and robust fulfillment capabilities, the Division helps its customers engage more participants, gather more participant data earlier in the health management process, better target interventional health support services.
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. As a leading provider of risk assessment services for the insurance industry, Hooper Holmes provides insurers with the widest range of medical exam, data collection, laboratory testing and underwriting services in the industry.
With presence in over 250 markets and a network of thousands of examiners, Hooper Holmes can arrange a medical exam anywhere in the U.S. and deliver the results to its customers. Each year we arrange more medical exams than any other company and process more than three million specimens in our laboratory. We provide 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. We underwrite hundreds of thousands of cases annually and complete more than two million telephone interviews.
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, 2008, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 16, 2009. 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.