Posted by TDCTY Editor on January 25th, 2008
The office, located in the Noe Valley neighborhood, is home to the company’s West Coast strategic partnerships department, according to Whole Health Management, which works with major employers such as Qualcomm, Discovery Communication, Scotts Miracle Gro and Harrah’s Entertainment.
Its corporate offices will remain in Cleveland.
“Whole Health’s strategic growth plan has allowed the company to expand at a rapid pace across the country,” said Jim Hummer, the company’s founder and CEO, calling San Francisco one of the nation’s top corporate development and growth centers. “We’re looking forward to partnering with the San Francisco community to introduce our health-care model to employers throughout the Western United States.”
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Posted by TDCTY Editor on October 7th, 2007
In his medical practice, Peter Krause now allots a full hour for new patients and a half an hour for routine visits.
The additional time has changed the way he practices medicine.
“You have more time to think about each individual problem the patient has,” said Krause, a family-practice physician. “It allows you to slow down your whole thinking process, so that you are more thorough.”
Krause’s new practice is at Kohl’s Wellness Center, a family-practice clinic less than a half a mile from the company’s corporate headquarters in Menomonee Falls.
The clinic, which opened in July, is one of at least eight in Wisconsin run by companies. It also is part of a growing trend in which large companies try to rein in rising health care costs by providing the care themselves.
Many of those companies - including Quad/Graphics, one of the first to set up its own clinics - have shown that they can provide better care at a lower overall cost.
They’ve done that partly by focusing on primary care and prevention.
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Posted by TDCTY Editor on March 19th, 2007
With employee health coverage premiums rising 7.7 percent last year, sick days have become more than a scheduling nuisance for area employers.
They are a threat to the bottom line, and one San Diego-based corporation pioneering a much-needed vaccine is Qualcomm Inc.
Working with Cleveland-based Whole Health Management Inc., Qualcomm is developing a comprehensive on-site medical clinic for its 7,000 local employees.
Qualcomm already operates a small on-site center for immediate health needs but it is planning to open a larger 5,000-square-foot clinic this summer. Details about what services might be offered are still being discussed, according to a spokeswoman.
The use by large corporations of on-site medical clinics is growing. About 100 of the country’s largest employers offer on-site primary care or preventive services, ranging from a nurse on the payroll to multi-room facilities with extended hours staffed by physicians offering services such as X-rays. The number is expected to grow to as many as 250 by year end.
Sara Crate, senior vice president of business development for Whole Health, said her company will open 20 new or expanded on-site medical clinics this year. The business started 25 years ago to serve NASA employees.
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Posted by TDCTY Editor on January 14th, 2007
Frustrated by runaway health costs, the nation’s largest employers are moving rapidly to open more primary care medical centers in their offices and factories as a way to offer convenient service and free or low-cost health care.
Within the last two years, companies including Toyota, Sprint Nextel, Florida Power and Light, Credit Suisse and Pepsi Bottling Group have opened or expanded on-site clinics. And many employers are adding or planning to add even more clinics, which were experimented with about 30 years ago but fell out of favor amid questions about their cost-effectiveness.
Today a new wave of clinics is opening, driven largely by a motive that was less of a factor in the past: employers’ desires to reduce their health insurance premiums by taking care of workers before they need to see outside doctors. More than 100 of the nation’s 1,000 largest employers now offer on-site primary care or preventive health services — a number forecast to exceed 250 by the end of the year, according to David Beech, a health benefits consultant.
Corporate America’s new in-house medical offices go well beyond traditional occupational health clinics that hundreds of factories have long maintained for job-related injuries and worker’s compensation cases. Employees can now stop by for check-ups, allergy and flu shots, pregnancy tests or routine monitoring for chronic diseases like diabetes and asthma.
When prescription drugs are required, some employers arrange for the pills to be delivered the next day at the office or plant, while others even maintain fully stocked pharmacies.
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