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Toyota Distributors Add On-site Services
In Jacksonville, Florida, perhaps JM Family Enterprises has taken a page out of the Toyota book - they set up Health & Wellness Centers at their three, distributor, vehicle-processing plants with one physician who spends time at all three locations, in addition to full-time nursing personnel a...
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Pepsico Offers “Best Doctors” Service to Employees
Last week (April 27, 2010) Best Doctors announced that their service is now a component of the benefit plan offered by PepsiCo to its employees. PepsiCo has been recognized for sometime for its innovative and successful benefits plan which focuses on employee lifestyle and overall health. P...
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AAAHC Accreditation for On-Site Vendors
Accreditation by the Joint Commission has long been the required standard for hospitals, and over the years accreditation by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care has become the standard for larger outpatient sites and organizations. CHS, one of the larger vendors in managing o...
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A Grocery Store Chain in the Health Business?
We're all accustomed to hearing about retailers in the business of providing health care (Walgreens, CVS, etc.) but who would have guessed that a national grocery store chain would jump into the market? But, that's just what happened when Safeway (over 1,500 U.S. stores, mostly in the western an...
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Survey Shows Uphill Battle in Improving Employee Health
The 15th Annual National Business Group on Health/Towers Watson Employer Survey on Purchasing Value in Health Care reveals just how difficult it is to change employee behavior when it comes to healthy lifestyle choices and taking responsibility for their own health. The survey, conducted from Nove...
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Is “.. the business model for the delivery of health care” broken?
Just like everyone else in the United States, we are watching the debate over healthcare reform daily. And, probably like most Americans, we are discouraged by the progress (really, the lack thereof) being made. There are, of course, models out there that could be used, including the provision...
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Retail clinic v. On-site? Where will the growth be?
In an article in Workforce Management, experts are saying that on-site clinics are taking the lead, with only 1% of employers having on-site health clinics in 2008 (two short years ago) but 10% in 2009 - dramatic growth. Even Walgreen's (with all of its retail sites) has recognized the potential a...
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Can e-prescriptions really improve quality?
In a study led by physicians at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, it seems like the answer is a resounding "yes". The study, published in the online edition of the Journal of General Internal Medicine on Friday (February 26, 2010), reviewed more than 3,000 prescriptions both pre- and...
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Spartanburg On-site Clinic a Success in Just 1 Year
An on-site clinic opened for the employees of Spartanburg County in South Carolina is seemingly a big success in just one year of operation. This clinic is not a "medical home" but provides primary medical care for employees and their dependents through the use of nurses. In the first year of...
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Defining Wellness
In an article soon to be published in Population Health Management, written by Cyndy Nayer, Jan Berger, M.D. and Jack Mahoney, M.D. (all of the Center for Health Value Innovation - see reference under our "Resources" tab on this Web site), the results of a qualitative study to attempt to find a com...
