Tissue & Hygiene

Team-based health care group that serves Medicare patients from a wide range of health plans to open 26 new centers in 2022 focused on underserved seniors

Already the nation’s largest provider of senior-focused primary care, CenterWell Senior Primary Care will continue its rapid growth in 2022, with plans to expand into new markets including the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex, Phoenix, Louisville, Nashville, and Charlotte.

The expansion, which begins later this year and will carry over into early 2023, will mark CenterWell’s first ventures into Arizona, Kentucky and Tennessee. A total of 26 centers are planned in this latest round of expansion.

“The senior-focused care we provide enables our physicians to spend more time with each patient. This personalized approach improves our patients’ lives and wellbeing, and is driving demand for growth in new centers across the U.S.,” said Reneé Buckingham, President of Humana’s Primary Care Organization (PCO) which operates both CenterWell and Conviva Care Centers.

The PCO, including CenterWell and Conviva, is the largest provider of senior-focused primary care in the country. Across the two brands, the PCO operates approximately 200 centers across nine states, and expects to grow to 240-260 centers by the end of 2022. Many of these new centers bring much-needed primary care to previously underserved areas.

Operating under a comprehensive, integrated, value-based care model, CenterWell centers are staffed by board-certified physicians and care teams who have been specially trained to treat the senior population. Physicians spend more time with their patients – usually around 40 minutes, compared to 10 to 15 minutes in many practices – and care teams create personalized care plans designed to help patients achieve their best possible health. This includes helping patients with social, behavioral and financial needs.

The Primary Care Organization of Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM), delivers care to approximately 300,000 patients from many different Medicare Advantage health plans, as well as some patients who have Original Medicare, and others in managed Medicaid plans. The centers currently operate in nine states – Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas – and will expand to 12 with the new markets announced today.

“We’re excited about everything we have planned for this year because it means we’ll be able to serve far more seniors with care that is designed just for them,” said Vivek Garg, M.D., Chief Medical Officer for CenterWell Senior Primary Care and Conviva Care Solutions. “As we continue dealing with the COVID pandemic, we’ve been able to keep delivering care safely to our patients – who appreciate seeing how careful we are to ensure their safety when they visit our facilities.”

About CenterWell Senior Primary Care

CenterWell Senior Primary Care is a primary care medical group practice with centers open in Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas. CenterWell Senior Primary Care has a strong emphasis on senior-focused primary care for members of Medicare Advantage health plans and Original Medicare beneficiaries and is committed to providing personalized, high-quality primary care combined with an excellent patient experience. CenterWell Senior Primary Care has experience in both the treatment and management of most chronic and acute-care conditions. The practices also provide health education and value-added, well-being services at the centers and around their neighborhoods to help both patients and community members improve their health. Learn more at CenterWell Senior Primary Care.

About Humana

Humana Inc. is committed to helping our millions of medical and specialty members achieve their best health. Our successful history in care delivery and health plan administration is helping us create a new kind of integrated care with the power to improve health and well-being and lower costs. Our efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.

To accomplish that, we support physicians and other health care professionals as they work to deliver the right care in the right place for their patients, our members. Our range of clinical capabilities, resources and tools – such as in-home care, behavioral health, pharmacy services, data analytics and wellness solutions – combine to produce a simplified experience that makes health care easier to navigate and more effective.

More information regarding Humana is available to investors via the Investor Relations page of the company’s web site at www.humana.com, including copies of:

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American Hygienics Corporation (AHC) was granted the "Star of Charity" award by Sheshan Town of Songjiang District in Shanghai on January 20, 2022. The main goal of this award is to honor enterprises for their excellent contributions to local charitable causes.

Established in 2001 as a wholly foreign-owned enterprise in China, American Hygienics Corporation (AHC) is a specialist in contract manufacturing and private label of wet wipes with a wide portfolio of products. For over 20 years, AHC has grown into a global company with exports to over 75 countries and regions with an annual wet wipes output capacity of up to 1 billion.

In 2021 S.TO.R.I. confirmed a ten-year growth trend during which its turnover increased by more than 25%. This result comes on the fiftieth anniversary of S.TO.R.I.’s foundation in 1972. 

Owned by Toscotec, a Voith company, S.TO.R.I. is located at Toscotec’s headquarters in Lucca (Italy) and specializes in rolls maintenance services for paper and converting machines of the tissue and paper industry. Its service offer includes predictive and preventive maintenance, press roll refurbishing up to a complete rebuild, grinding, dynamic balancing, upgrade installations, non-destructive examinations, and spare parts supply.

Lorenzo Iacopi, Production Manager of S.TO.R.I., says: “In 2021 we made important investments in new machinery for crown measurement, dynamic balancing, and run tests with the aim to continue delivering state-of-the-art services to our customer base. This year, we will be able to perform run tests on cylinders to verify their working conditions while simulating the actual operating conditions of the paper machine. We have strengthened our offer with complete services packages inclusive of inspection, repairs and overhaul of press rolls and other rolls, so that paper mills can rely on accurate planning to increase their OEE and avoid unscheduled maintenance stops.”

For further information, please contact:
Lorenzo Iacopi, Production Manager, S.TO.R.I. s.r.l., Lorenzo.Iacopi@storisrl.com

Who wants to be a billionaire? In a recent TEDxOshkosh talk, Kimberly-Clark’s chief scientist Pete Dulcamara discussed how a new focus on humanity-centric innovation can help solve the most significant problems facing society and the environment in an economically viable way, open doors to new business opportunities, and give us all the opportunity to build a better world.

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Picture: Vesa Kippola, IMAGOKUVA

Lambi, a Metsä Tissue brand, and Posti, the Finnish postal service, have launched a cooperation to enable more environmentally friendly transport methods. As part of this cooperation, two Lambi-branded biogas-powered trucks will begin plying the Finnish roads in January 2022 to provide consumers with premium tissue paper by more environmentally friendly means.

For Metsä Tissue and Lambi, sustainability means adopting improvement measures across the whole value chain. In addition to raw materials and production, sustainability needs to be considered also when it comes to transportation to customers. Reducing emissions from transportation is therefore an important part of Metsä Tissue’s sustainability actions.

The Lambi-branded trucks run on liquefied biogas, or LBG. The use of LBG in transportation reduces greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 90 per cent throughout the lifecycle, compared to the use of fossil-based diesel. This translates to an annual 128 tonnes in emission savings per truck, equivalent to around 750,000 kilometres travelled by passenger car. In turn, this corresponds to nearly 19 laps around the globe.

“Metsä Tissue stands out on the market with its unique value chain, stretching from sustainably managed northern forests to the responsible production of renewable products. For Lambi, caring about the environment also means delivering products to our customers in the most environmentally friendly way possible. We’re pleased to have found a shared ambition with Posti concerning more sustainable transports, thanks to which, Lambi will now begin to be transported fossil free, powered by biogas,” says Susanna Varsanpää, Marketing Director, Consumer Nordics.

“Metsä Tissue is an excellent company to cooperate with. We hope this cooperation extends far into the future. As sustainability is inherent in both companies’ values, we found that the joint branding of biogas trucks was excellently suited to both of us,” says Antti Wikström, Vice President, Posti Freight Services.

Tissue paper, which is a local product, is poorly suited for long transports as it contains a lot of air. Despite this, there are products being transported to Finland all the way from southern Europe. In contrast, Metsä Tissue is developing its business sustainably, based on local value chain from the forest to the consumer.

“All consumers can contribute to a more sustainable future by filling their shopping baskets with products made nearby and transported to the destination in an environmentally friendly way. Lambi’s products are a good example of this,” says Varsanpää.

The trucks will run along the Jyväskylä–Mänttä–Vantaa–Lahti–Jyväskylä route to begin with. As a future plan, similar cooperation with a local transport partner is planned also to Sweden in the spring of 2022.

For further information, please contact: Susanna Varsanpää, Marketing Director, Consumer Nordics, tel. +358 40 720 5929 or Joanna Linnermo-Kumpuoja, Communications Manager, tel. +358 40 555 5868 and joanna.linnermo-kumpuoja[@]metsagroup.com

Metsä Tissue

www.metsatissue.com

Metsä Tissue creates a cleaner everyday life. We are one of the leading tissue paper suppliers in Europe to households and professionals and one of the leading greaseproof paper suppliers globally. 
 
Our brands are Lambi, Serla, Mola, Tento, Katrin and SAGA. With production units in five countries, we employ around 2,500 people. In 2020, our sales totalled EUR 1 billion. Metsä Tissue is part of Metsä Group.