Meridian Health Selects Benefitfocus HR InTouch

CHARLESTON, S.C., Aug. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Benefitfocus today announced that Meridian Health has selected BENEFITFOCUS HR InTouch® for team member benefit enrollment, communication, education and wellness. Meridian Health is a leading not-for-profit health care organization in New Jersey that provides a continuum of care through its numerous hospitals, nursing and rehabilitation centers, ambulatory care, ambulance services and outpatient centers. The largest employer in Monmouth and Ocean counties, Meridian Health is one of FORTUNE'S "100 Best Companies to Work For."

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"We selected Benefitfocus because they are at the forefront of benefits and health care technology. Using HR InTouch further enhances our role as a leader in health care," said Kathleen Boushie, Corporate Director of Human Resources at Meridian Health. "Benefitfocus technology is unlike anything else I have seen in today's market."

After recently acquiring two new hospitals, Meridian Health needed to efficiently onboard new team members into its benefits and payroll systems before the upcoming Open Enrollment period. Benefitfocus technology integrates all employee data while also providing a streamlined process for managing benefits and enrollment. "HR InTouch is highly configurable, and Benefitfocus is able to take our complex situations, such as bringing on two new hospitals, and simplify them through user-friendly technology," said Boushie.

Using HR InTouch, Meridian Health's more than 12,000 team members are able to log in to one convenient online portal and enroll in all their benefits, including medical, dental, vision and life. Team members have access to HR InTouch's wellness resources, HR Knowledgebase and a Video Library that contains more than 250 health care, benefit, HR and wellness topics.

"Meridian Health provides a great work environment for their team members so they can in turn provide the very best care to their patients. We are honored to be the benefits technology provider for their team members and help them advance their mission of innovation and excellence," shared Shawn Jenkins, Benefitfocus President and CEO.

Meridian Health is currently implementing Benefitfocus technology in multiple phases to correlate with the integration of the newly acquired hospitals, starting with Southern Ocean Medical Center's more than 1,000 team members who went live on the Benefitfocus Platform in April 2011. All Meridian Health team members will be live on the Platform for the Fall 2011 Open Enrollment.

About Meridian Health

Meridian Health is a leading not-for-profit health care organization in New Jersey, comprising Jersey Shore University Medical Center and K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital in Neptune, Ocean Medical Center in Brick, Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, Southern Ocean Medical Center in Manahawkin, Bayshore Community Hospital in Holmdel, and Meridian Partner Companies that include home health services, skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers, ambulatory care, ambulance services, and outpatient centers. Meridian Health has consistently been rated among the top performing health systems in New Jersey for clinical quality, is one of the FORTUNE "100 Best Companies to Work For", and is the recipient of numerous state and national recognitions for patient care and nursing excellence, including the distinction of being the first health system in the country to receive Magnet designation for nursing. For more information, please visit www.MeridianHealth.com.

About Benefitfocus

Benefitfocus is the largest health care and voluntary benefits software provider in the U.S. with 13,847,951 consumers, 305,892 employers, 60,308 brokers and 3,543 carrier representatives live on the Benefitfocus Platform. Benefitfocus offers a single Web-based platform for benefit shopping, enrollment, management and industry-standard data exchange. Benefitfocus – All Your Benefits. One Place. www.benefitfocus.com

SOURCE Benefitfocus

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