The Dohmen Company Foundation has acquired Delafield-based Salus Corporate Wellness. Dr. Adel Korkor, founder and chief executive officer of Salus, donated the wellness firm to the Milwaukee-based foundation, Dohmen chief executive officer Cynthia LaConte announced Tuesday. Salus, which was founded in 2008, provides corporate wellness, biometric screening, personal training, weight loss coaching, fitness center and
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"The Salus team brings a shared passion for disease prevention by focusing on whole person health," LaConte said. "They're a great fit because Salus' success metrics provide quantifiable proof points surrounding our premise that flipping benefit spend from treatment to prevention has both economic as well as social return on investment for employers and their employees.”
Dohmen said the acquisition will allow the foundation to focus on improving outcomes for two key health care players, employers and employees.
"The addition of Salus provides Dohmen the ability to overlay clinical rigor to the creation of personal health plans including the assessment of baseline health via biometrics, the setting of personal health goals and the ongoing adjustment of those goals based on a personalized feedback loop," LaConte said. "These are important adds to our preventive health offering."
The acquisition continues Dohmen’s shift toward focusing on improving health outcomes in the community through prevention.
Dohmen transitioned in 2019 from being a family-owned corporation to a benefit corporation