Two Organizations Receive CEO Cancer Gold StandardTM
Accreditation
GHI and PPD Join Workplace Wellness Leadership Effort
CARY, N.C. (Business Wire EON) April 16, 2008 --
Today, two companies, health insurance provider GHI and contract
research organization PPD, were accredited with the CEO Cancer Gold
Standard™.
The Gold Standard certifies their commitment to the health of
their employees and their families by recognizing the efforts of these
two organizations to meet an exceptionally high standard of cancer
prevention, screening and care guidelines. In doing so, they join with
eighteen other organizations that have answered former President George
H.W. Bush’s call for business leaders to be “bold
and venturesome” in their efforts in
preventing cancer in the workplace and in their leadership in the
overall fight against cancer.
William C. Weldon, chairman and chief executive officer of Johnson &
Johnson chairs the CEO Roundtable on Cancer, the nonprofit
organization of cancer-fighting CEOs that created the CEO Cancer Gold
Standard™,
in collaboration with The American Cancer Society, NCI-designated
comprehensive cancer centers and leading corporate health professionals.
"Adopting the Gold Standard is a tribute to the value these
CEOs place on their employees,” said Weldon. “I
hope that the efforts of these and other Gold Standard companies
will encourage other corporate leaders to recognize the valuable role
they can play in helping us win the battle against cancer. ”
The CEO Cancer Gold Standard™,
calls for companies to evaluate their benefits and culture and take
extensive, concrete actions in five key areas of health and wellness to
fight cancer in the workplace. To earn Gold Standard
accreditation, a company must establish programs to reduce cancer risk
by discouraging tobacco use and encouraging physical activity, healthy
diet and nutrition; detect cancer at its earliest stages; and provide
access to quality care, including the availability of clinical trials.
New York-based GHI becomes the first health insurance provider in the
nation to be Gold Standard accredited. GHI and its wholly owned
subsidiary, GHI HMO, provide health coverage and administrative services
to more than 2.6 million individuals, including active employees, their
dependents, and retirees. Wilmington, NC-based PPD is a leading global
contract research organization providing discovery, development and
post-approval services as well as compound partnering programs to help
its clients and partners accelerate the delivery of safe and effective
therapeutics to patients. PPD is the fifth North Carolina employer to be CEO
Cancer Gold Standard accredited.
The most recent President's Cancer Panel report, “Promoting
Healthy Lifestyles: Policy, Program, and Personal Recommendations for
Reducing Cancer Risk,” identified the CEO
Cancer Gold Standard™
as an initiative that is helping reverse negative, unhealthy lifestyle
trends and creating hope in the fight against cancer for America’s
workers and their families.
Joining GHI and PPD in this workplace-based effort to eliminate cancer
as a public health threat are: American Cancer Society, American Legacy
Foundation, AstraZeneca, C-Change, Duke Medicine, Edelman, Enzon
Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline, Jenner & Block, Johnson & Johnson, MD
Anderson Cancer Center, Novartis, OSI Pharmaceuticals, PhRMA, Quintiles
Transnational, SAS Institute, The University of North Dakota and Valeant
Pharmaceuticals.
About the CEO Roundtable on Cancer
The CEO Roundtable on Cancer was founded in 2001, when former
President George H.W. Bush challenged a group of executives, then led by
Robert A. Ingram the CEO of Glaxo Wellcome, now GlaxoSmithKline, to "do
something bold and venturesome about cancer within your own corporate
families." The CEOs responded with the CEO Cancer Gold Standard encouraging
its widespread adoption in workplaces across the country. For more
information on the CEO Cancer Gold Standard™
and the accreditation process, please visit www.CancerGoldStandard.org.
To read the President's Cancer Panel report, please go to:
http://deainfo.nci.nih.gov/advisory/pcp/pcp07rpt/pcp07rpt.pdf
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