WELL is a purpose-driven organization, that is
at the "heart of healthcare" and is committed to practitioner
enablement, safeguarding patient data, and a healthy place to
work!
VANCOUVER, BC, June 17,
2022 /PRNewswire/ - WELL Health Technologies
(TSX: WELL) (OTCQX: WHTCF) ("WELL" or "the
Company"), a digital health company focused on positively
impacting health outcomes by leveraging technology to empower
healthcare practitioners and their patients globally, is pleased to
announce the release of its inaugural Environmental, Social, and
Governance (ESG) Report, highlighting the company's ESG practices
and performance. The report covers the year ended December 31,
2021, and details WELL's ongoing commitment to empowering
practitioners and positively impacting health outcomes while
highlighting the company's commitment to improve and enhance its
practices around environmentalism, social awareness, and
governance.
"We are proud to introduce our inaugural ESG Report that
showcases our commitments, efforts, and responsibilities to drive
real positive societal change for all of our stakeholders,"
said Hamed Shahbazi, CEO and Founder. "WELL's outlook remains
positive across all aspects of our business, including delivering
on our strategic ESG priorities. For 2022, our goals include
augmenting our ESG performance indicators, continuing to build a
best-in-class employee experience, and continuing to deliver on our
purpose to positively impact health outcomes by leveraging
technology to empower healthcare practitioners and their
patients".
Shane Sabatino, Chief People
Officer at WELL, and the executive responsible for WELL's ESG
Strategy said, "This report represents a significant step forward
in our commitment to Environmental, Social, and Governance issues
and provides stakeholders clarity on how we will accomplish these
goals. People are at the heart of everything we do, ESG will
continue to grow as a key focus for WELL, and we look forward to
providing future updates and building upon our sustainable
strategies".
WELL's 2021 ESG Report is guided by several global ESG
standards, including Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards,
the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Health Care
Delivery and Software & IT Services Industry Standards, and the
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). The report
provides a detailed view of ESG matters that the Company believes
are the most relevant to our stakeholders while ensuring there is a
foundation of good governance in all that we do, including the
following ESG Priorities (highlights and achievements):
Priority #1: Practitioner support
and digital enablement
- Helping practitioners deliver improved health outcomes, WELL is
a tech-enabled healthcare company that empowers physicians with a
powerful line-up of digital tools and services we refer to as our
practitioner enablement platform.
- Our offering provides all the benefits of a fully managed
hybrid environment inclusive of brick and mortar and/or virtual
delivery capabilities including online and offline medical office
assistant support, billing & back-office management, and
referral workflow support. It ensures healthcare providers can
optimize their schedules so they can spend more time with their
patients and less time doing administrative work.
- WELL's digital offerings reduce wait times, travel times
(reducing GHGs), and other traditional socio-economic barriers that
are often associated with accessing in-person care.
Priority #2: Safeguarding patient
data
- Safeguarding the privacy and security of our patients' data
while empowering them to proactively leverage their health
information is a core element to achieving our mission to
positively impact health outcomes.
- Continued investment into WELL's cybersecurity approach to
build and improve capabilities
- 100% of WELL's EMR Group is certified in ISO27001, ISO13284 or
ISO13485
- WELL had zero reportable data breaches in 2021
Priority #3: A healthy place to
work
- Diversity is highlighted in the ESG report as an invaluable
strength at WELL. Currently WELL has 70% of Senior Executive team
members representing a visible minority. Furthermore, WELL is
committed to achieving at least 33% female representation on its
board by the end of 2022.
- Developed a comprehensive COVID-19 response to protect patients
and staff in all WELL owned clinics, which resulted in zero
COVID-19 outbreaks
- Continued support for a range of well-being initiatives,
available to all team members and business units, to help team
members stay physically and mentally healthy in a psychologically
safe work environment
The full-length report can be found at esg.well.company and
on the investor relations section of the company's website.
WELL HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES
CORP.
Per: "Hamed
Shahbazi"
Hamed Shahbazi
Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and Director
About WELL Health Technologies
Corp.
WELL is a technology enabled healthcare company whose
overarching objective is to positively impact health outcomes to
empower and support healthcare practitioners and their patients.
WELL has built an innovative practitioner enablement platform that
includes comprehensive end to end practice management tools
inclusive of virtual care and digital patient engagement
capabilities as well as Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Revenue
Cycle Management (RCM) and data protection services. WELL uses this
platform to power healthcare practitioners both inside and outside
of WELL's own omni-channel patient services offerings. As such,
WELL owns and operates Canada's
largest network of outpatient medical clinics serving primary and
specialized healthcare services and is the provider of a leading
multi-national, multi-disciplinary telehealth offering. WELL is
publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol
"WELL" and on OTCQX under the symbol "WHTCF". To
learn more about the Company, please visit: www.well.company.
Forward-Looking
Information
This news release may contain "Forward-Looking Information"
within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws,
including, without limitation: information regarding the Company's
goals, strategies and growth plans; including but not limited to
WELL's diversity target for the board. Forward-Looking
Information are necessarily based upon a number of estimates and
assumptions that, while considered reasonable by management, are
inherently subject to significant business, economic and
competitive uncertainties, and contingencies. Forward-Looking
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"intend", "estimate", "plan", "anticipate", "expect", "believe" or
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Forward-Looking Information involves known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors that may cause future results,
performance, or achievements to be materially different from the
estimated future results, performance or achievements expressed or
implied by those forward-looking and the Forward-Looking
Information does not guarantee of future performance. WELL's
statements expressed or implied by these Forward-Looking
Information are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and
conditions, many of which are outside of WELL 's control, and undue
reliance should not be placed on such statements. Forward-Looking
Information is qualified in its entirety by inherent risks and
uncertainties, including: direct and indirect material adverse
effects from the COVID-19 pandemic; adverse market conditions;
risks inherent in the primary healthcare sector in general;
regulatory and legislative changes; that future results may vary
from historical results; inability to obtain any requisite future
financing on suitable terms; any inability to realize the expected
benefits and synergies of acquisitions; that market competition may
affect the business, results and financial condition of WELL and
other risk factors identified in documents filed by WELL under its
profile at www.sedar.com, including its most recent Annual
Information Form. Except as required by securities law, WELL does
not assume any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking
information, whether as a result of new information, events or
otherwise.
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