Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH) has become a minority investor in ADURO, a Redmond, Wash.-based company with a digital health and well-being platform for corporations and health systems.
Cincinnati-based BSMH is the nation's fifth-largest Catholic health system with more than 57,000 employees in 1,000 sites of care and $8 billion in net operating income. It has worked with ADURO for six years to create, implement and validate the connection of well-being and clinical care for BSMH employees, patients and community employers. The two organizations initially created an employee well-being program designed to improve the work and lives of caregivers. BSHM then integrated ADURO's holistic well-being solution into the broader care continuum, allowing physicians and other caregivers to use real-time well-being data in patient engagements, and prescribe behavior-changing programs between episodic visits.
More recently, BSMH has integrated ADURO's platform into its work with other community employers, offering a coordinated well-being and clinical care solution as part of its comprehensive community population health initiative. ADURO said its approach to corporate well-being maximizes an individual's human performance, which translates into increased employee productivity, higher retention, lower absenteeism and decreased healthcare costs.
"We are focused on bringing well-being solutions to our communities through our new direct-to-employer programs," said Michael U. Todd, M.D., BSMH’s vice president of business development, in a statement. "By collaborating with ADURO, Bon Secours Mercy Health becomes the employer's subject matter expert for all aspects of health and well-being. Ultimately, this will benefit the employer and their community because associates and dependents will be reaching peak performance both in and outside of the workplace."
BSMH's investment adds to the $22 million in growth funding ADURO received from Boston-based private equity firm Abry Partners in January 2019.
