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Recent News Releases
1/4/08 - New York City Health System Chooses Concept Communications
MediSys Health Network, an integrated healthcare system serving New York City's two most populous boroughs, has chosen Concept Communications as the online health content provider for its entities.
MediSys operates three hospitals in Queens and Brooklyn - Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, Flushing Hospital Medical Center, and The Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center - as well as specialized centers for brain injury, psychotherapy, rehabilitation and a network of family health care clinics and home health agencies.
"As consumers continue to turn to the Internet for healthcare information, the need for reliable and easy-to-understand content is greater than ever," said Concept Communications' President Veronica McQuillan. "By providing content in both English and Spanish, we hope to fill a critical void by providing health information to those who are more comfortable with the Spanish language."
11/6/07 - Union Hospital Redesign Uses Concept Communications Content
Union Hospital, a subsidiary of Affinity Health Alliance in Maryland, has incorporated online health content from Concept Communications into its newly re-designed website.
The re-design makes it even easier for Union's healthcare consumers to have access to current health news, as well as an expansive array of medical information in English and Spanish, featuring disease and wellness topics, diet and exercise, children's, women's and seniors' health, plus mental health and workplace health concerns.
"I am hearing nothing but positive comments about the health information content," said Kathryn McKinney, Union Hospital Director of Public relations. "This has been a welcome addition to our site."
"By integrating our online health content with Union Hospital's services and centers of excellence, we've provided consumers with easy access to the full spectrum of health information," said Concept Communications' Vice-President Paul Daffinee. "We're pleased to be continuing our long-term relationship with Union Hospital."
10/23/07 - Concept Communications Helps Sponsor Annual Benefit Race
Concept Communications is again a sponsor of the annual Thanksgiving 5K, benefiting two of San Diego's leading charities, Father Joe's Villages and St. Vincent de Paul Village. Proceeds from the race help the organizations provide more than 1.5 million meals annually to those in need in the San Diego area. This is the third year that Concept Communications has been an event sponsor.
"This event has become an annual tradition, and really brings out the best in our city. The real credit goes to the staff and volunteers of this wonderful organization. It's a pleasure for us to work with them each year," said Concept Communications' President Veronica McQuillan.
10/11/07 - CVPH Medical Center and Concept Communications Unveil New Site
CVPH Medical Center, a 356 bed acute care hospital in upstate New York, and Concept Communications Media Group LLC, San Diego, have unveiled a newly designed website. The design includes more prominent usage of Concept Communications' health content, including disease and wellness topics, health news and interactive features.
"I have heard nothing but compliments from people who have visited and checked out the material," said Mike Hildebran, CVPH Director of Marketing and Public Relations. Hildebran calls the content "seamless, thorough and very user friendly."
"CVPH has positioned itself as the major health care resource in New York's North Country," said Concept Communications' President Veronica McQuillan. "We are pleased that our content can play a key role in keeping its web site a community resource both now and in the future."
9/17/07 - Hunt Memorial Hospital District Uses Concept Communications Content
Hunt Memorial Hospital District in northern Texas has added a library of health topics to its website from Concept Communications Media Group LLC, San Diego. The library has health news, medical topics, glossaries, and interactive features, all integrated with the hospital district's services pages. Hunt Memorial Hospital District includes Presbyterian Hospital of Greenville and Presbyterian Hospital of Commerce, as well as clinics and home health care organizations in Greenville Texas.
6/01/07 - Catholic Health System Extends Content Agreement with Concept Communications
Catholic Health System, a healthcare ministry that stretches across Western New York, has expanded its Internet content licensing agreement with Concept Communications Media Group LLC, San Diego. Under terms of the agreement, Concept Communications will continue to provide health content for the CHS web page for an additional three year term. Concept Communications has provided content for the CHS website since 2001. The content includes weekly news, as well as feature articles in both English and Spanish covering disease and wellness topics, children's, women's, seniors, and workplace health, in addition to glossaries, interactive features, health quizzes that are cross-referenced to the library, and calculators for body mass index, target heart rate, calorie counts and other measurements.
"In a time when health care consumers are looking for accurate, reliable, easy to find information they need everyday, we are extremely pleased with the medical content on the CHS Website provided by Concept Communications," said Dennis McCarthy, CHS Vice President for Public Relations and Government Affairs." Providing consumers with this kind of information matches well with our 'It's about you' web philosophy."
Catholic Health System, a member of Catholic Health East, includes five hospitals, along with dozens of diagnostic centers, primary care sites, long term care facilities, and home health agencies. Concept Communications has been providing health and medical information to hospitals and healthcare organizations throughout the United States since 1995.
4/7/07 - BJC HealthCare Signs Multi-year agreement with Concept Communications
BJC HealthCare - one of the largest nonprofit health-care organizations in the United States - has signed a multi-year agreement with Concept Communications to license health content for its facilities. Under the agreement, Concept Communications will provide content for the BJC Healthcare corporate site, as well as twelve of its facilities located in the greater St. Louis, southern Illinois and mid-Missouri regions.
"We are pleased that we can help BJC Healthcare reach out to the communities it serves, with a robust library of online content," said Concept Communications' President Veronica McQuillan. "By integrating our online content with its other marketing efforts, BJC Healthcare can more effectively target its key demographics, in a positive way that promotes better health and consumer education."
3/17/07 - Lourdes Health System Plans Redesign with Health Content
Lourdes Health System, a multi-hospital organization serving the Camden and southern New Jersey area, will revise its website with an extensive library of health content from Concept Communications. The redesign will incorporate the health library in a n integrated way with Lourdes' services and Centers of Excellence.
Lourdes Health System, comprised of Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden and Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County, is sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany and is a member of Catholic Health East. Concept Communications is a multi-media provider of health and medical information for hospitals and healthcare organizations.
2/10/07 - Concept Communications Expands Client Roster
Concept Communications, a San Diego-based provider of health and medical information for healthcare organizations, has signed a multi-year agreement with the San Benito Healthcare District, California, to provide health content for its website. The agreement coincides with a broader healthcare district web initiative to revamp and expand its online consumer offerings.
The San Benito Health Care District includes Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital, as well as nursing facilities, clinics and other facilities.
12/14/06 - Hancock Regional Hospital Adds New Health Library
Hancock Regional Hospital has added a new online health library to its Web site. The consumer health library is being provided by Concept Communications, of San Diego CA. It includes medical information and news, disease and wellness topics, and interactive features such as quizzes and calculators. Areas of consumer interest include diet and exercise, children's, women's and seniors' health, plus mental health and workplace health concerns.
"We are very happy to be partnering with an organization such as Hancock Regional Hospital," says Paul Daffinee, MSHS, vice-president of Concept Communications. "The Hospital is reinforcing its commitment to serving the community and improving the health status of the people around Hancock County with this consumer oriented health information." Hancock Regional Hospital is located 15 miles east of Indianapolis.
11/21/06 - Midland Memorial Provides Online Health Feature
Midland Memorial Hospital has added an online health library to its Web site, offering health headlines, glossaries, quizzes and health history forms, among other consumer content. The site also includes an A-Z of health topics, women's health, heart and cancer information, and a place to learn about surgical procedures. The consumer health content is being provided by San Diego, Calif.-based Concept Communications.
"Consumers now are more savvy and have more access to information than ever before. Leading the pack of that information is education," says Midland Memorial's Director of Planning and Development Prentice Bryant, adding that this content is step toward the hospital continuing to offer more new and innovative services.
Midland Memorial Manager of Public and Media Relations Marcy Madrid said the site is not a replacement for a physician, but is meant to provide supplemental information, as well as prompt questions patients might want to ask their doctor.
9/14/06 - Rhode Island System Adds Concept Communications Content
South County Hospital Healthcare System (SCHHS), will now be providing its consumers with a library of health news and information from Concept Communications. The library includes an A-Z encyclopedia of health topics, plus health news and interactive features.
"We are excited to be part of South County's outreach to its consumers," says Paul Daffinee, MSHS, vice-president of Concept Communications. "Providing this library of health information shows South County's commitment to its mission statement's goal of promoting wellness through health education and awareness."
South County Hospital Healthcare System is a full-service healthcare resource, providing southern Rhode Island with a comprehensive range of advanced inpatient, outpatient, and home health services. SCHHS includes South County Hospital, VNS Home Health Care, South County Quality Care, and South County Surgical Supply.
6/19/06 - Sacred Heart Adds Concept Communications Content
Sacred Heart Health System, an integrated delivery system serving the northwest Florida region, has redesigned its web site with a new online health library designed to give consumers an easy way to get the latest medical information. The library offers current health news headlines from Concept Communications, along with informative and easy-to-understand health topics, as well as interactive tools such as quizzes and calculators.
According to recent statistics, eight in 10 Internet users have searched online for health information. That translates to about 95 million American adults age 18 and older.
"Having the latest health information on our website, gives people in our area a readily accessible way to find quality health information," says Dick Appleyard, vice president of marketing for Sacred Heart Health System. "Information on losing weight, quitting smoking, staying healthy - it's all there. This is a true community resource. And the whole time you're reading this information in the library, you're only a click away from finding additional resources directly related to Sacred Heart Health System."
4/14/06 - Concept Communications Expands Client Roster
St. Francis Healthcare Services of Wilmington DE, a member of Catholic Healthcare East (CHE), has signed an agreement with Concept Communications for health content on its website.
Through the agreement, St Francis consumers can access an expansive online library of health information in both English and Spanish, as well as news and interactive health tools such as quizzes and calculators.
2/28/06 - Empire Health Services Unveils Multiple Sites with Concept Communications' Content
Empire Health Services (EHS), has unveiled multiple newly-designed websites for its facilities, incorporating online health content from Concept Communications. Through its agreement with Concept Communications, EHS healthcare consumers will be able to access an expansive online library of health information, daily health news headlines, and interactive health tools.
EHS is a not-for profit, multi-service healthcare system providing inpatient and outpatient services to eastern Washington and the surrounding three-state region as well as bordering Canadian provinces.
Through its combined 511 licensed acute care beds and outpatient services, the hospitals treat over 225,000 patients a year.
"We are thrilled to be part of Empire Health Services outreach to the community," said Paul Daffinee, MSHS, Concept Communications' Vice-President. "Both EHS and Concept Communications are committed to the improvement of community health and well-being. Providing quality access to health information, disease prevention and wellness tools is an essential part of this commitment." Headquartered in San Diego California, Concept Communications is a leading provider of health and medical information for hospitals and healthcare organizations throughout the United States.
1/01/06 - Concept Communications Expands Client Roster
Concept Communications, a leading provider of health and medical information for hospitals and healthcare organizations throughout the United States, has added additional hospitals to its client roster. Hammond Henry Hospital, Maine Coast Memorial Hospital, and Holy Spirit Health System have all licensed Concept Communications' comprehensive library of health topics and news for their respective websites.
"Holy Spirit, Hammond Henry and Maine Coast all play an important role in maintaining the health and well-being of their regions," said Concept Communications' President Veronica McQuillan. "We are pleased that our content will be used to enhance their websites, and make them even more of a community resource."
11/01/05 - OSF Healthcare Renews Content Agreement with Concept Communications
OSF Healthcare, ranked among the nation's top 100 integrated healthcare networks, has renewed its agreement with Concept Communications, a leading provider of multi-media health content. Under terms of the agreement, Concept Communications will continue to provide health content for the main OSF corporate site, and for all of OSF's entity hospitals and medical centers located throughout the states of Illinois and Michigan.
The content is marketed under the OSF-exclusive name of "HealthSteps Magazine." Content offerings include daily health news headlines,and in-depth articles organized in a library format and categorized by disease and wellness topics, children's, women's and seniors' health, and health in the workplace. In addition, a glossary of health terminology provides definitions for health care terms in a variety of topic areas, including health insurance, heart disease, the immune system, cancer, speech and hearing, and eye care. An interactive portion of HealthSteps Magazine, "Yardsticks," provides online health risk quizzes that are cross-referenced to the library, plus calculators that guide the user through a series of health-related measurements such as body mass index, target heart rate and calorie counts.
OSF Healthcare System, an Illinois, not-for-profit corporation owned and operated by The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, Peoria, Illinois, includes seven facilities in Illinois and one in Michigan. The System employs about 10,000 people including nearly 200 physicians. Also integral to the System are OSF Home Care, OSF Saint Francis, Inc., OSF HealthCare Foundation and OSF HealthPlans, Inc., a subsidiary of OSF Healthcare System, which is a licensed insurance company in the State of Illinois with more than 80,000 covered lives.
Headquartered in San Diego California, Concept Communications is a leading provider of health and medical information for hospitals and healthcare organizations throughout the United States.
9/26/05 - Trover Foundation Website Wins Award
For the second year, Concept Communications' client Trover Foundation has won a World Wide Web Health Care Award. The Health Information Resource Center, a national clearinghouse for consumer health information, judged over 200 entries based on accuracy, success in reaching target audience and over-all quality.
"The Trover website makes full use of our content, by integrating the library topics with Trover specialties and departments," said Concept Communications' Vice President Paul Daffinee.
Trover Foundation has been a Concept Communications' client since 2001. "Partnering with Concept Communications has proven to be a very rewarding endeavor in terms of Web site activity and marketability," said Jon Garrett, Trover Foundation's public relations manager. "With the addition of the content piece and some limited marketing, we have witnessed a 600 percent increase in monthly unique visitors."
1/14/05 - Concept Communications Works with Hospital's Flash Website
Concept Communications, a San Diego-based provider of health and medical information for healthcare organizations, has signed a licensing agreement with Thomas Hospital, a not-for-profit medical center serving the coastal Alabama region. Under terms of the two-year agreement, the licensed content available through the Thomas website will include news, health topics, glossaries, and interactive features.
Although the Thomas Hospital website is designed entirely with Flash animation, Concept Communications has been able to adapt its content library to blend seamlessly with that of the Thomas site. "This was an exciting challenge for us," said Concept Communications Vice President Paul Daffinee, "and the final result demonstrates our company's commitment to working with our clients - regardless of their own Internet platform - to provide a seamless experience for their healthcare consumers."
7/10/04 - Cape Fear Valley Health System & Concept Communications Unveil New Design
Cape Fear Valley Health System, a regional health system of over 700 beds, four hospitals, and primary care physician offices in Cumberland County North Carolina, has unveiled a newly-designed website, incorporating online health content from Concept Communications.
Through its agreement with Concept Communications, Cape Fear Valley healthcare consumers will be able to access an expansive online library of health information and news, weekly health news headlines, disease and wellness topics, diet and exercise, children's, women's and seniors' health, plus mental health and workplace health concerns. The library also includes interactive health tools including quizzes and calculators.
"We are pleased to be a part of Cape Fear Valley Health System's online efforts to promote health and wellness," said Concept Communications' President Veronica McQuillan. "As Cape Fear Valley continues to make its website more consumer-friendly, the information we provide on disease prevention and wellness tools will be an even more important feature."
3/19/04 - Agnesian HealthCare Using Concept Communications Library
Agnesian HealthCare, an integrated multi-hospital healthcare system serving eastern Wisconsin, has unveiled a new website, featuring Internet health content from Concept Communications Media Group LLC. The site incorporates information on diseases and conditions in both English and Spanish, along with interactive features, news, glossaries, and other features.
"It was a pleasure to work with Agnesian and its web developers to incorporate our content seamlessly into their site," said Concept Communications' Vice-President Paul Daffinee. "We're excited and pleased to be a part of Agnesian's continuing efforts to reach out to its community."
1/19/04 - St Joseph's Unveils New Website with Concept Communications Library
St. Joseph's Hospital, a regional healthcare facility serving the Southern Tier of New York and Northern Tier of Pennsylvania, has unveiled a new website, incorporating Internet health content licensed from Concept Communications Media Group LLC. Concept Communications has provided content for St. Joseph's since 2002, with an expansive library of disease and wellness topics, as well as news and interactive features. The hospital's new template provides more direct access to different areas of the health library.
"Visitors to our web site not only are searching for information about our facility, but many are looking for the latest in health information. That's why we value the link to Concept Communications' content," says Denis Sweeney, Director of Marketing & Community Development for St. Joseph's.
"St. Joseph's is an important health care resource in the Twin Tiers region," said Concept Communications' President Veronica McQuillan. "We are pleased that our content can play a key role in keeping its web site a community resource both now and in the future."
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