Six has quite the imagination and is definitely hip to pop culture,” saidAngie Vieira Barocas, Six Flags Senior VP of Marketing and Entertainment “Joining Twitter was a big step for Mr. Six on Twitter under the profilename “TheRealMrSix.”Recognized in the past as “the dancing old guy,” Mr. Six’s role has evolvedand he is now the foremost authority on fun.His joyful and energeticpersonality, previously expressed solely through his exuberant dancing, is nowengaging Twitter followers through tweets, revealing his passion forentertainment and fashion and displaying his unique talent as a rater of fun “Mr. Six, into its 2009 “More Flags…More Fun” advertisingcampaign.The iconic character first danced his way into Six Flagsadvertising in 2004, but has never engaged in conversation, until now.Guestscan check out “tweets” from Six Flags’ Mr. Business Group on HealthCary Conway for Midwest Business Group on Health , +1-972-731-9242,cary(at)conwaycommunication .

NEW YORK, May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Six Flags, Inc., (OTC BulletinBoard: SIXF) has welcomed back an old friend and reintroduced the recognizableface of its brand, Mr. MBGH is a member of the National Business Coalitionon Health. The nonprofit MBGH offers employers and thecommunity a variety of health benefit educational seminars, networkingopportunities, quality and community initiatives, demonstration projects andgroup purchasing programs. MBGH’s nearly 100 membersrepresent over 2 million lives, spending more than $2.5 billion on health carebenefits on an annual basis. IPhA is dedicated to enhancing theprofessional competency of pharmacists, advancing the standards of pharmacypractice, improving pharmacists’ effectiveness in assuring rational drug usein society, and leading in the resolution of public policy issues affectingpharmacists.About the Midwest Business Group on HealthThe Midwest Business Group on Health (MBGH) is one of the nation’s leadingbusiness groups of private and public employers. The Foundation has expertise in designing programs to seek to createa new medication use system in the U.S. where patients, pharmacists,physicians and other health care providers collaborate to dramatically improvethe cost and quality of consumer health outcomes through safe and effectiveuse of medications.About the Illinois Pharmacists AssociationThe Illinois Pharmacists Association is Illinois’ largest and oldestorganization representing pharmacy.

“In addition to the physician community, theinvolvement of pharmacists serving as coach, clinician and cheerleader forpatients has been invaluable in helping patients manage their diabetes.”About the APhA FoundationThe American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation, headquartered inWashington, D.C., is a non-profit organization affiliated with the AmericanPharmacists Association, the national professional society of pharmacists inthe U.S. Employers interested in this program are invited to contact MBGH. “The results of this program show the effectiveness of having pharmacistsestablish relationships with program participants to serve as diabetescoaches,” said Starlin Haydon-Greatting, RPh, clinical project coordinator,Illinois Pharmacists Association. Having a pharmacist coach helps patients understand theimportance of taking these their drugs and managing their health.”The Midwest Business Group on Health is expanding the Taking Control of YourHealth program to all interested employers during 2009 and plans to expand toother critical health care needs such as asthma, cardiovascular conditions anddepression.

“A key barrier to improvement in chronicdisease is the lack of medication compliance. Rarely does someone just havediabetes – they often have other conditions, including hypertension, cardiacproblems and depression, requiring them to take an average of five to 13medications. The program was endorsed by the Illinois Academy of Family Physiciansand the Institute of Medicine of Chicago.”Through this program, we’ve demonstrated the value of collaboration betweenpatients, physicians and pharmacists to improve care and reduce costs,” saidLarry Boress, MBGH president and CEO. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporationand Sanofi Aventis, through a grant from the National Business Coalition onHealth.

Taking Control of Your Health is the ongoing programcoordinated by MBGH, in cooperation with the Illinois Pharmacists Associationand is supported by Novo Nordisk, Inc. “This program hasenabled us to provide our employees that have diabetes with additional toolsand support to help them actively manage their condition as well as incentivesfor them to take action.”MBGH was one of more than 30 employer groups throughout the country thatparticipated in the Diabetes Ten City Challenge, a national employer-baseddiabetes self-management program conducted by the American PharmacistsAssociation Foundation through its HealthMapRx(TM) program, with support fromGlaxoSmithKline. MBGH partners with the Illinois PharmacistAssociation to train pharmacists in patient education, monitoring of clinicalconditions and motivation according to guidelines of the American DiabetesAssociation. The objective is to enable patients to reach individual goals formedication compliance, fitness and weight management. The first-year results looked at 86 participants who received benefits fromfour Chicago-area based employers: the City of Naperville, Jewish Federationof Metropolitan Chicago, Hospira and Pactiv Corporation.”Not only did we realize an improvement in clinical indicators and costsavings, but we were pleased to see a high level of satisfaction from ourparticipating employees regarding their overall diabetes care,” said JudithHearn, Health and Welfare manager for Pactiv Corporation. Average total health care costs for participants declined by almost$625.The TCYH program, which now has over 200 participating patients, is open tocovered employees, dependents and retirees from employer members of theMidwest Business Group on Health. There are three unique elements of theprogram: 1) The employer reduces or waives co-pays for diabetic drugs andsupplies; 2) The patient signs an agreement that commits them to education andface-to-face coaching on diabetes self-management in return for the reduceddrug costs; and 3) Pharmacists are trained as diabetes coaches to assistpatients on a regular basis.