Employers' latest cost-control efforts include managing expenses for the most costly diseases; getting workers to use nurse video-chat services and other types of "telemedicine"; and paying for primary care clinics at work or nearby.
And that helped because she had taken a nursing job in the breast cancer clinic at Anderson, working with many patients pretty much like her — their cancer had been caught early, they would be fine.
To save employees time and improve access, it opened primary care clinics at Intel work sites in Oregon, New Mexico, and Arizona.
EMPLOYERS WHO SEE RESULTS A number of medium-size companies have contracted with Bellin to establish clinics at their work sites, staffed part-time by nurses, nurse practitioners or physician assistants, who handle minor injuries and illnesses, promote healthy living and conduct preventive screenings.
The doctor in the hospital normally opens his own clinic at home after work.
The major urban clinic I worked at, Centro de Salud Santa Rosa, was a large, newly constructed, multi-specialty clinic at which trainees worked alongside a number of experienced clinicians within the city of Riobamba.
One morning not long ago, I went to the pain management clinic to watch these doctors at work.
One of my trainees, she told me, "I've never actually used it at an abortion clinic, but I use it at work all the time".
Our clinic chief continuously bullied me at work, mostly by questioning my worldview... she often criticized my wife's decision to wear a headscarf, [and] encouraged my subordinates to spread rumours that I am an Islamic fundamentalist.
