Employers Health Coalition of Ohio, Inc. (EHCO) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1983 by nine Stark County employers to contain healthcare costs within the community. In 1999, Employers Health Purchasing Corporation of Ohio was incorporated as a subsidiary of the Coalition in order to facilitate group purchasing programs and government lobbying. Today, the two organizations, collectively referred to as Employers Health, represent more than 150 organizations and 1.3 million lives across the country.

Employers Health has evolved into an “extension of the benefits staff” for many of its members by performing five primary functions:

• Educational Programming & Information Dissemination
  
  
• Community Health Initiatives around Quality, Cost and Access to Healthcare Services
  
  
• Legislative Monitoring and Lobbying
  
  
• Value-Based Group Purchasing, Data Analysis and Benefits Design Consultation
  
  
• Health and Productivity Management, Wellness and Population Health Management Strategies and Solutions

Employers Health strives to provide members with products and services that help each member organization maximize the value of not only its membership in the Coalition, but also the benefits delivered to each organization’s employees.