What’s the best type of onsite health clinic for your company? It depends on what your company does, and what your onsite healthcare goals are. If you’re a heavy manufacturer, you’re probably most concerned with occupational health issues, such as injury treatment and workers’ comp case management. If you’re a software developer, law firm or other [...]
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Onsite health clinics have a lot of fans. Companies love the reduced healthcare costs they bring. Managers love the increased productivity they generate. Employees love the convenient, high quality care they provide. But, onsite health clinics have another group of fans: the nurses who work there. Many occupational health nurses and nurse practitioners find providing a broad range [...]
Friday, September 4, 2009
One of the most common myths in the employer sponsored onsite healthcare clinic industry is that if an onsite health clinic provider is a member of a Health System or affiliated with the local hospital, the provider’s only motivation is to refer employees to the system, increasing employer health costs. The proverbial “fox in the hen [...]
Thursday, August 27, 2009
A recent article by Mark Coyne on the Kevin MD blog says that in order to cut healthcare costs, it’s important to reduce utilization. Coyne says that insurance costs are going up, because more people are utilizing the system. The procedure you had last year doesn’t cost more, says Coyne. Rather, more of them are being [...]
Monday, August 24, 2009
Swine Flu. The name has stuck, and so have the concerns. Officially known as the H1N1 virus, renewed outbreaks have people worried afresh about contracting the virus through public contact – whether at the mall or at the work place. We’re hearing a lot of questions coming from our onsite health clinics. Employers are asking our [...]
Monday, June 29, 2009
According to a recent report from Price Waterhouse Cooper’s, Behind the Numbers: Medical Cost Trends for 2010, medical costs are expected to increase 9% in 2010. This year, costs are rising for several reasons: In anticipation of possibly losing their jobs and their benefits, workers are using benefits more while they still have them. Rising unemployment rates are [...]
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Just because you’re working with Workplace Health Services, that doesn’t mean you can’t create your own private label for your on-site medical clinics and health care. Here at WHS, we partner with both employers and health systems to create workplace clinics, whether they’re flying under the WHS banner or not. So if you wanted to [...]
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
In the ideal health care system, care runs in a continuum – you see a primary physician and then you may be moved along that continuum to secondary care, aka a specialist. Go a little further, and you might be referred to tertiary care, sometimes referred to as a super specialist. In other words, there are [...]
Thursday, June 4, 2009
A nurse coach is like a dietitian, nurse practitioner, motivator and personal trainer all rolled into one. And because healthy living is the one and only true cost saver in the health care system, I think nurse coaches are a critical part of any comprehensive employer health care program. How a Nurse Coach Can Help Employees A [...]
Monday, June 1, 2009
We’ve been called in to deal with a situation where an employer has combined onsite medical workplace clinics with occupational health care. That means the same doctors and nurses that do their onsite health care are also in charge of their Worker’s Comp claims and other occupational health concerns. What’s happened in this particular workplace is [...]
Friday, October 2, 2009
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