Effingham Cares
Healthcare is local, so doesn’t it make more sense to support your local healthcare systems? What’s more, pay up to 30% less in insurance premiums as a result.
Effingham County Health System
Effingham Health System (EHS) is transforming healthcare for the people in Effingham County and surrounding communities. In recent years, under the leadership of the current CEO, Dr. Fran Witt, this 25-bed critical access hospital, supported by over 400 employees, has introduced da Vinci Robotic Surgery, a Cancer Care Center, pediatric services, and school-based telemedicine.
By developing partnerships with leading regional specialists, EHS has provided patients with expert cardiology, orthopaedic, and vascular care—close to home. The healthcare system encompasses five Family Medicine locations (serving 22,000 patients with a 97% satisfaction rating), two imaging centers, Women’s Health, a 105-bed Effingham Care & Rehabilitation Center (nursing home), and the new EHS Foundation. The Level IV Trauma Center handles 18,000 patient visits a year, while the hospital surgery center performs 1,850 surgeries.
A focus on best-practices, evidence-based medicine, and the patient experience is helping to drive tremendous growth for Effingham Health System.
EHS recently began a digital innovation journey to transform its current fragmented IT infrastructure into an integrated, single-source electronic health record (EHR) and financial ecosystem across all patient care locations.
Our Plan Components
Underlying Insurance: We’ve negotiated competitive premiums by leveraging local networks that are incorporated into the health plan itself.
Independent Administration: Like your business, our program administrator is not owned by Wall Street. Given their interest is in keeping your claims low, the alignment makes perfect sense.
Care Management: The 6% of your population that drives 80% of your costs are actively managed by our utilization partner. What’s more, they actively continue to build out your local network as your staff see providers. Organic growth of your local network; sophisticated and simple.
Pharmacy: Radically innovative prescription benefits with built-in advocacy means your net spend on drugs is as low as it can be.
Plan Analytics: Learn where your money is going, and get ahead of the cost curve to prevent unnecessary spend. Gone are the days of unexpected bad renewals.
Embedded Legal: Full plan document generation to ensure a compliant plan.
Mobile App: Telemedicine, ID cards, deductible accumulator, advocacy information, and more all in your staff’s smartphone.
The Future
Aggregation of members allows our underwriting and actuary teams to stabilize rates for our area and eventually leads to simplified underwriting, meaning risk can be more equitably shared amongst organizations.
Specific benchmarks allow for shared risk pools to be created, which creates further stability long-term.