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Former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich recently applauded SAVE LIVES SAVE DOLLARS, a program initiated by the Greater Detroit Area Health Council (GDAHC) to significantly improve provider performance in selected southeast Michigan clinical areas. GDAHC hired Thomas Group Inc. (NasdaqCM:TGIS) for their SAVE LIVES, SAVE DOLLARS campaign. Thomas Group has been appointed to drive improvements in quality and to achieve cost savings by implementing specific quality initiatives and compliance with evidence-based guidelines, supported by differential provider payments and public reporting in southeast Michigan. The movement's goal is to improve healthcare while reducing spending in southeast Michigan by at least $500 million, or reduce by one to three percent the rate of increase in total health care expenditure, during the three year campaign. "You are as close as any region of the country at beginning to be the health system of the future," Gingrich said in his keynote address at the GDAHC annual Health Trends Conference in Dearborn, Michigan. "It's an exciting time to be involved with SAVE LIVES SAVE DOLLARS," said Eric Labe, senior vice president, Thomas Group. "GDAHC is pioneering a movement the rest of the nation may eventually follow and adopt for quality healthcare and savings." SAVE LIVES SAVE DOLLARS is collaboratively driven by the major employers, providers and insurers within Southeast Michigan among them General Motors, Ford Motor Company, DaimlerChrysler, Blue Cross, HAP, Care Choices, Henry Ford Health System, University of Michigan, UAW, Comerica Bank, Detroit Medical Center, St. John's Health and community action groups like the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce. More than 80 different interest groups have come together to support the SAVE LIVES SAVE DOLLARS movement. About Thomas Group Thomas Group, Inc. is an international, publicly traded business consulting firm (NasdaqCM:TGIS). Thomas Group's unique brand of process improvement and performance management services enable businesses to enhance operations, improve productivity and quality, reduce costs, generate cash and drive higher profitability. Known as The Results Company(SM), Thomas Group creates and implements customized improvement strategies for sustained performance improvements in all facets of the business enterprise. Thomas Group has offices in Dallas, Detroit and Hong Kong. For additional information on Thomas Group, Inc., please go to www.thomasgroup.com.