Tri-State Business Group on Health (TSBGH) executive director Lisa Gish says this healthcare model benefits both employers and employees. TSBGH is a local coalition of businesses aimed to improve healthcare opportunities. While the business still covers employees’ health care, the lower-cost model reduces overall cost. Employees can enjoy a convenient location and no co-payments, says Gish.

“The number of people who have not seen a doctor in the last several years is staggering,” Gish says. “Our goal is to find ways to get people the health care they need, take care of problems while they are minimal so they don’t escalate into more serious and more costly conditions, and encourage and provide services that prevent some of the most common health problems.”

The clinic is staffed with local physicians, and Novia CareClinics, an organization that establishes and implements these clinics, developed this clinic as well as one for Evansville-based energy company, Vectren Corporation.

“The decision to open an on-site clinic took careful consideration of a lot of different factors, some of which were not as easy to quantify as we would have liked,” says Joseph Neidig, Vice President of Operations at Red Spot and president of the TSBGH Board of Directors. “With the clinic at Red Spot only open for two weeks now, we have filled nearly every appointment, and the positive response from our employees has been overwhelming. It was definitely the right decision for us.

Source: 14 WFIE
Original Publication Date: December 17, 2007