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City of Gainesville’s Wellness Center opens
The City of Gainesville opened its new wellness center for employees, their families and city retirees Thursday morning off Queen City Parkway near I-985.
Human Resources Director Joan Sheffield said it’s about more than cutting health insurance cost; it’s also a community-wide initiative aimed at providing a safe medical care haven.
Sheffield said coming here is voluntary, but there’s no co-pay.
“It will not be a requirement. This is a totally voluntary clinic,” Sheffield said. “If they choose to stay with their own provider they may do that through our insurance program, but they will continue to pay the co-pay associated with that office visit and any co-pays associated with prescription drugs.
Gainesville opens new medical clinic
Gainesville opened the doors of its onsite medical clinic this morning with plans to see its first patients just before noon today.
The clinic, operated by the Tennessee-based clinic management company CareHere, will give those on the city’s group health insurance plan the opportunity to see a doctor and receive certain prescriptions for free, Joan Sheffield, director of Human Resources for the city, said.
The City Wellness Clinic opened just months after Gainesville conceded to a group health insurance plan that required employees to pay about $40 a month for their premiums. It is open to any employee, dependent and retiree who participates in the city’s group health insurance plan.
Gainesville employees may soon pay health insurance premiums
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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