Posted by TDCTY Editor on February 17th, 2008
Her patients simply walk in off the work floor.
“They don’t even need to clock out,” said del Valle, who contracts to provide health care at Amarr Garage Doors, in East Hills Business Park. “They seem to really like it, too.”
Moreover, it doesn’t cost them a cent.
Amarr officials like the arrangement so much that they’re helping tout the program to other area employers, many of whom are looking for ways to improve employee health, increase company efficiency and — not least of all — ease financial pains for employer and employees alike.
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Posted by TDCTY Editor on January 28th, 2008
Whole Health Management (WHM), a leading operator of on-site and near-site health clinics and wellness centers for large self-insured corporations, recorded 26.32 percent growth, treated more than 224,600 patients, and opened 11 new clinics in 2007. Last year was the company’s most successful year in its 26 years of operations. Additionally, the company added several key executives to its senior management team.
‘2007 was a defining year for Whole Health,’ said Jim Hummer, founder and CEO of Whole Health Management. ‘We have built a solid foundation for our service model and continually strive to shape our industry, rather than being shaped by it. We look forward to taking our scope of client services and performance to the next level in 2008.’
New Facilities and Services
In 2007, WHM opened 11 new clinics and wellness centers across the nation for clients including Scholastic. Additionally, WHM expanded its service offering at one of its existing Florida Power & Light clinic locations and significantly increased its scope of primary care services for employees and dependents at several facilities.
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Posted by TDCTY Editor on January 25th, 2008
Whole Health Management, which operates on-site and near-site health clinics, wellness centers and pharmacies for large self-insured corporations, has opened a West Coast office in San Francisco, officials said late Thursday.
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 January 15th, 2008
Tucked into a cluster of buildings near an overgrown field in Tunica County is a fully staffed clinic that provides basic health care to employees of Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. and their families.
The casino operator’s decision to run a company clinic illustrates a national trend. As health care costs continue to rise, increasing numbers of large employers are operating job-site clinics in the hopes that easy access will lead workers to get preventive care and avoid medical meltdowns that lead to long absences from work and big insurance claims.
The concept of offering health care at work is not new, but many firms are moving away from an “occupational health” model that focuses on tasks such as treating on-the-job injuries.
Now, the clinics are acting as employees’ primary-care doctors, doing everything from vaccinations to caring for chronic diseases like diabetes.
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Posted by TDCTY Editor on January 10th, 2008
Corporations struggling to stem the rising tide of health care costs are providing on-site medical services that used to be found only in doctors’ offices and hospitals.
The National Business Group on Health recently released a survey on the prevalence of on-site clinics among U.S. employers with more than 1,000 employees. Of those surveyed, 23 percent reported offering on-site medical services in 2007, while 29 percent plan to offer a program next year.
“These clinics are also an opportunity to provide services in a more cost-effective way,” said Helen Darling, president of the Washington lobbying group. “They will have limited services, and the patient won’t get a lot of extra costly services, which the employer would have had to pay for.”
A recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that the premiums businesses pay for their workers’ health care have increased 78 percent since 2001. But creating a medical facility is not exactly a cheap solution to the problem, so the trend is predominantly found among large employers.
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