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NHPR News National Health Partners Growth Continues to Accelerate Through Agreements with New Business Partners
HORSHAM, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--National Health Partners, Inc. (OTCBB: NHPR), a leading provider of
unique discount healthcare membership programs, announced today that it
has entered into agreements with several new business partners through
which the company will continue targeting the Hispanic marketplace. The
company’s new business partners are expected
to have an immediate effect on its sales and further accelerate the
company’s high growth rate. The company
recently announced that it had achieved the 15,000 membership milestone,
representing a 62% increase in members over Q3 2006 levels.
The Hispanic community represents an enormous untapped market for
National Health Partners. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the
uninsured rate for Hispanics in 2005 was 32.7% compared to 15.9% for all
members of the U.S. population. Of the 46.6 million Americans who are
uninsured, 14.1 million are Hispanics. The Hispanic population is
expected to grow from 40 million people today to 103 million people in
2050.
One of the new business partners with which the company entered into an
agreement is Sycom, LLC (f/k/a Synergy Marketing, LLC). Sycom is a
leading provider of Hispanic marketing solutions that offers a
specialized approach to helping clients acquire, support and retain
customers in the Hispanic market.
“We believe CARExpress’
health discount programs will be a tremendous and immediate success with
our Hispanic customers and expect to generate a significant number of
sales,” stated Joshua P. Host, Chief Executive
Officer of Sycom. “The Hispanic community is
severely underrepresented among the members of the U.S. population who
have health insurance. We are very excited to have the opportunity to
offer CARExpress to our customers.”
“We are very impressed with Sycom and their
innovative approach to marketing to the Hispanic market,”
stated David M. Daniels, President and Chief Executive Officer of
National Health Partners. “Just like Trident
Marketing International, Sycom brings a tremendous amount of specialized
marketing skills to the table that will contribute greatly to the growth
of our Hispanic sales. Joint ventures with companies like Sycom continue
to fuel our quickly accelerating growth and will have an immediate
impact on our membership base and revenues.”
National Health Partners, Inc. is a national healthcare savings
organization that provides discount healthcare membership programs to
uninsured and underinsured people through a national healthcare savings
network called “CARExpress.”
CARExpress is one of the largest networks of hospitals, doctors,
dentists, pharmacists and other healthcare providers in the country and
is comprised of over 1,000,000 medical professionals that belong to such
PPOs as CareMark and Aetna. The company’s
primary target customer group is the 47 million Americans who have no
health insurance of any kind. The company’s
secondary target customer group includes the 61 million Americans who
lack complete health insurance coverage. The company is headquartered in
Horsham, Pennsylvania. For more information on the company, please visit
its website at www.nationalhealthpartners.com.
Sycom, LLC
Sycom, LLC (f/k/a Synergy Marketing, LLC) is a marketing outsourcing
company that offers a specialized approach to helping clients acquire,
support and retain the Hispanic market. It assists clients in
customizing their marketing resources to create the best customer
experience possible for the Hispanic market. The company’s
management works closely with its front-line agents to provide clients
powerful insights on how they can increase the competitiveness of their
Hispanic market strategy from the vantage point of the end-customer.
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statements” within the meaning of Section 27A
of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements other than
statements of historical fact contained herein, including, without
limitation, statements regarding the company’s
future financial position, business strategy, budgets, projected
revenues and costs, and plans and objectives of management for future
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uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from
results proposed in such statements. Although the company believes that
the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are
reasonable, it can provide no assurance that such expectations will
prove to have been correct. Important factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially from the company’s
expectations include, but are not limited to, its ability to fund future
growth and implement its business strategy, its ability to develop and
expand the market for its CARExpress membership programs, demand for and
acceptance of its CARExpress membership programs, its dependence on a
limited number of preferred provider organizations and other provider
networks for healthcare providers, as well as those factors set forth in
the company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB
and its other filings and submissions with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these
forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Except
as required by law, the company assumes no obligation to update or
revise any of the information contained in this press release.
