The Creation of Health Endeavors

The concept that eventually led to the creation of Health Endeavors, a mobile medical center dedicated to promoting healthy behaviors and preemptively identifying potential health risks for corporate and public employees, began as on outreach program under the direction of George Lesmes, PhD, and Chairman of the Masters Program in Exercise Physiology and Human Performance Laboratory at Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) in 1985.  Its primary objective was to contain corporate healthcare costs by promoting health and wellness.

When the National Fire Protection Association's medical standards (section 1582) was published in 1990, the university organized the Police and Fire Chief's Consortium to develop preventive health and pre-employment services within these departments.  As a member of the Lutheran General Medical Group, Dr. Fragen became associated with NEIU as a Medical Director and Adjunct Professor in the Human Performance Laboratory and became the University's Team Physician.  This association strengthened dramatically in 1993 with the formation of the Corporate Risk Reduction Group, officed in Downers Grove and serving the West-suburban corporate centers and NEIU's athletic program.  Beyond providing medical services, the program devotes itself to consistent and thorough collection and analysis of medical data within the entities it serves.  Outcomes and feedback are provided to individuals and departments as appropriate.

Additional moves and a name change later, Endeavor Plus, part of the Advocate Medical Group, lands in Glenview where it becomes more focused on the clinical aspects of preventive health services.  As the group became increasingly devoted to primary care and sub-specialty base services, Dr. Fragen decides that it is time for a practice devoted to the unique needs of corporate and public employees.  With the approval of the Advocate Medical Group, Dr. Fragen forms Health Endeavors, S.C. in 2005, featuring mobile medical services to improve access to its target market and to control preventive care costs.  The Northeast Illinois Public Safety Training Academy demonstrates its endorsement of the new corporation by extending the option to house the Health Endeavors medical RV at its location in The Glen of Glenview.  

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