Depression

Alere Depression Management provides telephonic access to health coaches, who provide education and emotional support and develop customized intervention plans based on each employee’s individual needs. Our program offers the following benefits:

• The program aims to increase employee productivity and reduce absenteeism.
  Improvement of health and wellbeing
• Reduction of costly doctor visits, hospital treatments and medications, except in some cases involving severe depression
• Increased employee productivity and reduced absenteeism

Alere’s model of individualized empowerment results in employees making informed decisions about the efficiency and effectiveness of their care. As a result, they choose the intervention options that result in positive outcomes most quickly, which facilitates their recovery more rapidly than in a standard mental health plan.

View the Depression Program Overview for a more complete overview of the program.