Healthways , the leading well-being improvement company, has partnered with GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) Consumer Healthcare to bring consumers the first-ever, over-the-counter (OTC) multi-dimensional smoking cessation program available exclusively at Walmart stores nationwide. Through this program, Healthways will provide its online smoking cessation behavioral support solution, QuitNet®, represen...
BUSINESS WIRE) -- In an effort to promote well-being and prevention to its older-adult members, Providence Health Plan (PHP) and Healthways (Nasdaq: HWAY), the leading well-being improvement company, have agreed to offer the award-winning SilverSneakers(R) Fitness Program to PHP's eligible Medicare Advantage members beginning January 1, 2012. SilverSneakers is the nation's leading exercise program...
(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Ben R. Leedle, Jr., president and chief executive officer of Healthways, Inc. , today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2011. Total revenues for the quarter were $176.2 million, an increase of 3.3% from $170.5 million for the third quarter of 2010. Net income for the third quarter of 2011 was $9.5 million, or $0.28 per diluted share, compared ...
(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Healthways , the leading provider of specialized, comprehensive health and well-being solutions, kicked off its second annual partnership with Ragnar Relay Series, the nation's top provider of overnight, running relay races. Ragnar Relay Tennessee will begin in Chattanooga at 7:00 a.m. on November 4 and ends 200 miles later in Nashville on Saturday, November 5. Community Health ...
(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Gallup and Healthways, Inc. today released findings from the monthly Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index(R) (WBI) for September 2011. The WBI reveals that Americans' access to basic necessities dropped to its lowest point in four years to 81.4. This decline was influenced by a reduction in the percentage of Americans that: had enough money to buy food (80.1), found it easy to get...
(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Gallup, the global polling organization, and Healthways , the worldwide leader in well-being improvement, today jointly revealed new data showing that chronic conditions, such as obesity, diabetes and cancer are costing the UK economy 21.6 billion pounds a year in lost productivity. Insights into the overall well-being of Britons from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index (WBI)...
(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Gallup, the global polling organization, and Healthways , a worldwide leader in well-being improvement, will today jointly launch the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index (WBI) for Germany at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. The data collected from more than 5,000 interviews since March 2011 provides the first deep, comprehensive, real-time view of the well-being of Germ...
(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Wellmark(R) Blue Cross(R) and Blue Shield(R) CEO John Forsyth and Healthways president and CEO Ben R. Leedle, Jr. today joined with Iowa Governor Terry Branstad and Blue Zones(R) founder Dan Buettner to introduce the Blue Zones Project(TM), a centerpiece of the Iowa Healthiest State Initiative to improve the well-being of all Iowans through tools and programs for employers, lead...
Gallup and Healthways Release August 2011 Well-Being Index 9/13/2011 12:39:00 AM Data Reveals Decline in Obesity Rates Since 2010WASHINGTON & NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sep 12, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Gallup and Healthways, Inc. today released findings from the monthly Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index(R) (WBI) for August 2011. The overall WBI composite score remains relatively high at 66.1. This is ...
BUSINESS WIRE) -- Healthways, Inc. (NASDAQ:HWAY) today announced that its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2011 will be released after market close on Monday, October 24, 2011, followed the same day by a conference call and live webcast scheduled for 5:00 p.m. ET. The live broadcast of Healthways' quarterly conference call will be available online by going to http://www....