Network Health Plan increases provider panel
SynergyHealth, West Bend, will now accept Network Health Plan members
01 / 15 / 2008
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Maria Nelson, Media Relations
Affinity Health System
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MENASHA, Wis. –Network Health Plan, working with SynergyHealth in West Bend, is expanding the number of health care providers available to Network Health Plan members who work in Fond du Lac County and live in and around Washington County.
“We’re growing our provider panel to give Network Health Plan members in Fond du Lac and Washington counties more choices, more locations and better access to physicians, hospitals and medical care,” said Richard Bond, vice president of Sales for Network Health Plan.
SynergyHealth is a regional health system serving communities of Washington County, and it includes St. Joseph’s Hospital, an independent, non-profit community hospital serving the greater Washington County community since 1930. St. Joseph’s Hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
Additionally, SynergyHealth includes the West Bend Clinic, with more than 70 physicians on staff that provides comprehensive primary care and specialty services for patients in West Bend, Hartford, Jackson and Kewaskum.
“We’re pleased to be able to bring into the Network Health Plan provider network the quality physicians and health care facilities that SynergyHealth offers,” Bond said.
Network Health Plan, based in Menasha, is a regional health care organization that provides services to 80,000 members of 1,400 employer groups throughout Northeast Wisconsin. In October, it was rated for the third consecutive year as one of the best health plans in the nation in terms of customer satisfaction and clinical performance by U.S. News&World Report/National Committee for Quality Assurance. Network Health Plan is a wholly owned subsidiary of Affinity Health System.
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For the Editor:
Affinity Health System, a faith-based regional health care network, is the Fox Valley’s second-largest employer, according to the Fox Cities Chamber of Commerce & Industry. For the fourth consecutive year, Affinity has been named one of the nation’s top 64 health systems based on clinical performance according to Thomson Reuters, a leading provider of information and solutions to improve the cost and quality of health care. For ten consecutive years, Affinity Health System has been named to the SDI (formerly Verispan) Integrated Health Network Top 100, an annual assessment of the 100 most highly integrated health care networks in the nation. Both St. Elizabeth Hospital in Appleton and Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh rank among the top 1 percent of hospitals nationwide in terms of quality and efficiency, as determined by the 2007 Premier | CareScience Select practice National Quality Award. Members of Affinity include Mercy Medical Center and Mercy Health Foundation, Oshkosh; St. Elizabeth Hospital and the St. Elizabeth Hospital Foundation, Appleton; Affinity Medical Group, a regional network of 25 family practice and specialty clinics – 22 of which are recognized as NCQA Level III medical homes, the highest level of recognition – in 14 communities; Calumet Medical Center, Chilton; and Affinity Occupational Health.