How A Multi-Unit Store Can Benefit From An Onsite Health Clinic
Tue, Oct 6, 2009
Employer Health Costs, Healthcare Costs, Onsite Health Clinic
If you operate a multi-unit store with employees spread throughout a number of locations, does an onsite health clinic make sense for your company?
If you’re narrowly focused on cost-justifying a single clinic that your widely-scattered employee population would have to travel to, you’d probably answer no.
But, if you’re broadly focused on improving your employees’ health while lowering your employer healthcare costs, you’d answer yes, and determine the most effective way to achieve that goal.
Because it’s not always about providing centralized access to healthcare services. Sometimes it’s about providing consistent access to healthcare information.
For multi-unit stores, the challenge is to effectively manage health access and medical compliance programs, and provide employees with the information they need make informed decisions.
Therefore, your onsite health clinic may become the central hub for administering services performed at the store level. Health screenings, risk assessments, employee wellness and other educational programs are a good example of services that can be provided remotely.
The key is to ensure that your clinic staff continually reaches out to your employee population. Health education should be constantly reinforced, and is most effective when employees are in contact with medical professionals they know and trust.
If your multi-unit store operation and employee population are large enough, opening several near-site clinics may be an option. Obviously, this approach involves a much greater investment, and is less common than onsite clinics administering remote health access and medical compliance programs.
A more popular and less costly way to offer healthcare to scattered employees is to contract these services through a multi-site medical provider. Many physician groups interested in growing their practices are more than willing to provide their services on a fixed cost basis.
With this approach, your employees can conveniently access primary care and wellness services near their store or residence. And, If you need help locating a multi-site medical provider or negotiating a health services agreement with them, we can provide any assistance necessary.
Just because your operation is highly decentralized doesn’t mean that you can’t improve employee wellness and reduce employer healthcare costs through some version of an onsite health clinic.
All you need is the right provider and a little creativity.
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Tags: centralized healthcare, healthcare access, multi-unit store, Onsite Health Clinic
Scott is the VP, Sales and Marketing at Workplace Health Services. In this role Scott strives to integrate a complex group of service offerings into a simple to understand package for prospects and clients.
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