Kilgallon Takes The Helm At Center For Health Promotion
TUKWILA, Wash., July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The Center for Health Promotion Inc. (CHP) announced today that Tim Kilgallon has joined the company as chief executive officer. Kilgallon's appointment completes CHP's transition to a privately held, standalone company.
"On behalf of CHP's board of directors, I'm very excited to welcome Tim to our team," said board member Craig Albright, who has been serving as CEO for the company during its initial transition. "He has an outstanding track record in the healthcare industry and tremendous credibility with investors and strategic partners. I am confident that Tim's leadership will drive CHP to an even stronger position as market and clinical leader in the field of behavioral support and preemptive healthcare services."
As president of Applied Discovery, Inc., a leader in the information and business services market, Kilgallon oversaw a fourfold increase in annualized quarterly revenues and high valuation sale to LEXIS/NEXIS. As CEO of Pointshare, a provider of community-based online healthcare services for providers and payers, Kilgallon raised $60 million in four preferred financing rounds between 1997 and the company's sale to Siemens AG in 2001. Prior to Pointshare, Kilgallon held several positions, including division president, chief financial officer and general counsel at Medaphis Corporation.
"I am delighted to join CHP in its efforts to make a significant impact on improving health and fitness. Tobacco use and excess weight are the number one and number two causes of preventable death in the United States, and they exact an enormous toll measured both in quality of life and in economic impact," said Kilgallon. "CHP's programs are among the most cost-effective benefits employers and health plans can offer -- with a 15 year history of clinical validation across large populations."
More than 35 million people have access -- through state quitlines, employers, health plans and union trusts -- to CHP's tobacco cessation and weight programs, which have the highest demonstrated efficacy in the industry.
CHP spun off from its parent organization, Group Health Cooperative, in November 2003 with funding from investors Polaris Venture Partners of Seattle; Three Arch Partners of Portola Valley, Calif.; and Kaiser Permanente Ventures of Oakland, Calif.
In addition to appointing a new CEO, the CHP board also announced that, in recognition of the company's achieving its initial targets, the investors have increased the committed capital by $3 million.
About the Center for Health Promotion
The Center for Health Promotion Inc. delivers tobacco cessation and weight management services to customers nationwide. As an operating unit of Group Health Cooperative (Seattle) for almost 20 years, CHP developed the telephone-based Free & Clear and Weight Talk programs and established itself as a national leader in tobacco cessation and weight management.
Today CHP continues to deliver tobacco cessation services through health plans, businesses and labor organizations around the country. The company is actively engaged in research trials with major research centers including SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif., the Center for Health Research in Portland, Ore., and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Group Health's Center for Health Studies, both in Seattle. This active research is undertaken to help improve CHP's services to smokers and increase scientific understanding of this key health issue. More information about the Center for Health Promotion can be found at http://www.chpcare.com/.
CONTACT: Scott Marber of Center for Health Promotion, +1-206-988-7956, or marber.s@ghchp.com; or Shelly F. Cohen of Firmani & Associates, Inc., +1-206-443-9357, or shelly@firmani.com, for Center for Health Promotion.
Center for Health Promotion Inc.CONTACT: Scott Marber of Center for Health Promotion, +1-206-988-7956,or marber.s@ghchp.com; or Shelly F. Cohen of Firmani & Associates, Inc.,+1-206-443-9357, or shelly@firmani.com, for Center for Health Promotion
Web site: http://www.chpcare.com/