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7
Taking Great Strides:
A year of growth, change and success
In 2001, Anthem experienced growth, as our
membership climbed to 7.9 million members; change,
as we successfully completed our demutualization and
became a publicly traded company; and success,as we
continued to work toward our goal of becoming one of
the nation’s largest and best health benefits companies.
Throughout the year, in everything we did,
we maintained a strong focus on fulfilling our mission:
To improve the health of the people we serve. We
took great strides working with our network physicians
and hospitals to improve the quality of care and
service our members received and, in a broader sense,
contributing to the health and well-being of the states
and communities we serve. As a result of our focus, we
also increased value for our shareholders.
Our work revolved around a series of operating
imperatives that we continued to address successfully,
allowing us to reach and frequently exceed our goals for
the year.