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Potential On-Site Contract Out for Bid
The Pasco School Board (Florida) has invited CareHere and Novia Care Clinics each to submit proposals to manage an on-site clinic for the teachers and other employees of the school system. Both vendors are described on this Web site under the "Vendors" link. Per the school board chairman, Alle...
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CHS and St. Vincent’s HealthCare Team Up
It was announced this week that St. Vincent's HealthCare in Jacksonville, Florida, is working with Comprehensive Health Services to offer employee services to large employers in the area through a network of providers, on-site clinics, and other services. St. Vincent's will obviously provide the i...
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Will Your Employees Accept Evidence-Based Medicine?
A study was published in the July, 2010 issue of Health Affairs, and summarized in the AAFP NEWS NOW recently. The study included both qualitative and quantitative data collection (with data collection completed during 2006-2007). The goal appeared to be to determine to what degree patients ...
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How can you “make” your employees take their medications?
Wow, did we really say that? Your goals shouldn't be to "make" your employees do anything, but rather to encourage and support them in making good decisions about their health care, right? But let's face it, getting patients to take their medications, on time and correctly, is a huge challenge ...
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Obesity Cost Calculator Available through CDC Web Site
The CDC is offering a new "Obesity Cost Calculator" to employers for their use in estimating not only the costs of obesity in the work force, but the potential savings you could achieve by better managing obesity in your employees (and, we assume, dependents). A good bit of data is needed to plu...
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KIA/CERNER/IMC
Soon, every car company will be served by on-site programming-KIA joins Toyota, NISSAN, and VW of America with the announcement of a CERNER/IMC project on their 1,300 employee site in West Point, Georgia. In reviewing the scope of services, the menu is more focused on occupational health, safet...
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Harrah’s Hits 5-Year Mark with On-Site Clinics
Harrah's Entertainment has been working with Take Care Health Systems to provide on-site health and wellness centers for its employees and their dependents for five years now. During that time, they have expanded the scope of services, the number of sites at which they provide services, and the ...
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Obesity as a driver of costs – what can be done?
Look "across the pond." Unilever, with more than 7,500 employees in the UK and Ireland, rolled out a program to help its employees better manage their weight. Called the "Fit Business" program, it was offered to approximately 1,600 employees in both office and factory jobs. The program offe...
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Patient Centered Medical Home Blog
It looks like earlier this year a new blog/Web site was launched for discussion and collaboration on EHR, PHR, and Patient Portals. You can find it at www.ehrphrpatientportal.blogspot.com. We can't comment yet on its value, but it may be something to check out as it develops over time. ...
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Toyota Opens Fourth On-site Clinic in Buffalo
After opening its first on-site clinic in San Antonio a few years ago, Toyota has obviously found the concept to be one of value as they recently announced the opening of their fifth on-site clinic for employees at their Buffalo plant. All four clinics are managed by Take Care Health Systems, and ...
