AXL American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- IMC HealthCare, a national health care company that specializes in designing, staffing and managing corporate sponsored on-site health and wellness centers, announced today that it has signed a new five-year contract with American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. (AAM) to staff and manage all five of the company's on-site employee health care facilities. Two of the centers are located at AAM facilities in Detroit and the others are located in AAM facilities in Buffalo, N.Y., Tonawanda, N.Y., and Three Rivers, Mich. AAM expanded its contract with IMC HealthCare because of its strong, successful management of the on-site centers at Buffalo, Tonawanda and Three Rivers during the past three years. At the Buffalo facility, 96 percent of patient satisfaction surveys scored IMC as having good or better service. "As employee health care costs for businesses continue to increase, IMC is able to alleviate this growing concern by helping employers substantially improve productivity and effectively curb rising health care costs with our on-site health facilities," said Todd Keller, CEO of IMC HealthCare. "Working together with AAM staff, IMC is able to dramatically lower worker's compensation costs while bringing quality health care in the form of dedicated health centers into the plant to provide rapid, convenient and quality health care for all employees." The health care facilities in Detroit will provide full- and part-time medical professionals, including physicians, nurse practitioners, nurse case managers and ancillary staff, who are dedicated to providing quality occupational and emergency health care services to employees. As the largest of all AAM domestic manufacturing facilities, the Detroit facilities will employ 18 health care professionals, effectively bringing the total full- and part-time medical staff to 34 for all five sites. About American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AXL) is a world leader in the manufacture, engineering, design and validation of driveline and drivetrain systems and related components and modules, chassis systems and metal-formed products for light trucks, sport utility vehicles and passenger cars. In addition to locations in the United States (Mich., N.Y. and Ohio), AAM also has offices or facilities in Brazil, China, England, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Scotland and South Korea. For more information, visit our Web site at http://www.aam.com/. About IMC HealthCare IMC HealthCare is a leading innovator of company sponsored on-site employee health centers. For more than 20 years, IMC has been helping corporate America lower health care costs by bringing health care into the worksite. As a physician-owned and managed company, IMC sets the standard for high quality health care delivered in a convenient and cost effective, fixed price model. IMC's unique ability to create customized health centers to match each client's unique culture and specific needs sets them apart. Services include: primary care; occupational care; wellness and prevention; pharmacy; and more, all delivered at the worksite for employees and even dependents. For more information, visit our Web site at http://www.imchealthcare.com/. DATASOURCE: IMC HealthCare CONTACT: Media, Kevin Punsky of Dalton Agency, +1-904-398-5222, or , for IMC HealthCare Web site: http://www.imchealthcare.com/ http://www.aam.com/

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