Care Choices Announces New Director, Account Manager

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., Nov. 2, 2005—Care Choices has added new experts to its Medical Affairs and Sales staffs. Timothy P. Sullivan has joined Medical Affairs as the Director of Medical Informatics and Performance Metrics and Michael Lazich has joined the Care Choices Sales team as an Account Manager for jumbo-sized employer groups.

In his new role, Sullivan will be responsible for the direction and oversight of data management resources and tools within Medical Affairs with the goal of improved clinical quality and cost effectiveness. He comes from Medstat in Ann Arbor where he worked closely with health plans to understand and address their health care information needs, which included implementing enterprise-wide decision support systems. Prior to this, he spent six years working as a Healthcare Consulting Manager at IMRGlobal-ORION, consulting in Cleveland, Ohio. Sullivan has over ten years of management and consulting experience including executive-level relationship management, business development, project management, and technology design and implementation. He holds a master’s in statistics from Cleveland State University and is also a decorated United States Marine.

Lazich joins Care Choices from Johnson Controls, where he was responsible for sales and service, working with large customers such as Honda, Mazda and TRW. In his new role, Lazich will be responsible for Account Management activities for jumbo-sized employer groups (1,000+ employees). He will also be responsible for new business sales in the jumbo market.

About Care Choices
Care Choices is a health benefits management company and a subsidiary of Trinity Health, one of the nation’s leading providers of health care services. Since 1986, Care Choices has been providing quality health care coverage to thousands of members throughout Michigan. The Care Choices suite of products includes Care Choices HMO, Care Choices PPO, Preferred Choices PPO and consumer-directed plans. Care Choices offers a broad, fully integrated network of physicians, hospitals and other health care professionals all sharing a strong commitment to improving the health status of the communities it serves by delivering effective and affordable health care. Care Choices HMO maintains the highest rating available of Excellent by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). Care Choices HMO was rated by “U.S. News & World Report/NCQA America’s Best Health Plans, 2005” as the seventh best commercial health plan among 257 nationwide. Care Choices was the top-rated plan in Michigan.