Posted by TDCTY Editor on June 9th, 2008
Angel Bruce, 15, reacted to the cold metal stethoscope against her forearm.
It always feels funny, she said, laughing, as medical assistant Nadine Slaughter listened on the other end. Slaughter pumped up the compression sleeve around Angel’s arm, then let the air out to check her blood pressure.
Angel’s afternoon appointment was a sports physical for cheerleading. Her mother, Abigail, waited outside, but she wasn’t far from work. The clinic, sponsored by her employer, Symmetry Medical Inc., is in leased space across the street from its Warsaw-based instrument production plant.
A single mother of three daughters, Abigail Bruce likes that her family’s care is free through the employer-sponsored clinic. She also gets some free medications, including a smoking-cessation drug.
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Posted by TDCTY Editor on May 30th, 2008
If the Gainesville City Council approves a new health insurance plan for city employees on Tuesday, city employees will do something they have never done before — help pay their premiums.
City employees could be coughing up $40 a month from their paychecks to help the city pay for their health insurance premiums. For the city, the change is “historic,” said the city’s Human Resources Director Joan Sheffield.
And it was bound to happen.
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Posted by TDCTY Editor on May 22nd, 2008
Comprehensive Health Services (CHS), a leading US workforce health management company, today announced a major global expansion with the launch of its new subsidiary, Comprehensive Health Services International. As its first contract, CHS International will provide medical support to approximately 9,000 interpreters and subcontractors working with United States government affiliates in the Middle East.
With its initial focus on medical support initiatives in US military theatres in Iraq and Afghanistan, CHS International is strategically positioned for rapid expansion in the global marketplace.
“CHS is proud to be expanding at this time into such a high-growth international market,” said Gary Palmer, CHS Executive Vice President for the Government Sector, who has been named president of CHS International. “Our mobile, global medical support teams will become a vital resource to US Department of Defense and Department of State initiatives worldwide.”
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Posted by TDCTY Editor on May 1st, 2008
Whole Health Management, a leading operator of on-site and near-site health and wellness centers for large self-insured corporations, has opened a 2,400-square-foot health and wellness center for TIAA employees this week. The on-site health and wellness center, located at TIAA-CREF’s Charlotte, North Carolina, location, will offer quality health services to nearly 2,600 TIAA employees.
“We are pleased to partner with Whole Health to run our on-site health and wellness center. We are committed to the wellness of our employees and are providing them with the tools they need to live a healthy lifestyle,” said Deborah Hamilton, TIAA VP, Benefits. “The on-site health and wellness center is part of an integrated and comprehensive approach we are taking to provide our employees access to preventive wellness programs.”
Source: BusinessWire
Original Publication Date: April 30, 2008
Posted by TDCTY Editor on April 28th, 2008
Quad/Graphics Inc., Briggs & Stratton Corp. and Miller Brewing Co. have begun sharing each other’s work site health clinics.
Starting April 1, the companies have allowed employees to use any of the QuadMed-run work site clinics for primary health care services. Previously, employees could use the clinics only at their respective companies.
The clinics are run by QuadMed, the work site health care subsidiary of Quad/Graphics, the Sussex-based printing company.
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