single alert for a host going puprle

Hi

When a client is down all monitored services will get purple.
This is usually causing multiple alerts to be sent for each service.
Recipients can get really annoyed by the amount of alerts while they only
care to know that the client should be restarted.

Is there a way to get just a single alert telling you the client stopped
running, or at least just one purple event ?
Has anyone configured the alerts file to prevent this situation?

Thanks,

Hezki