How the Right On-site Facility Lowers Costs, Improves Health Management

Smart Business recently published an interview with Leonard Eisenbeis, director of Clinical Health Operations for UPMC WorkPartners, an affiliated company of UPMC Health Plan, about the benefits employers can see from implementing on-site health care facilities.

On-site workplace centers have grown in recent years from being traditional in-house occupational health clinics where someone who was injured on the job could get basic care, to more extensive total health management centers that offer acute care treatment, health and wellness programs, health coaching, behavioral health assistance and chronic disease management.

“Studies have shown that only about 25 percent of large, self-insured firms offer some type of workplace center,” said Eisenbeis. “But, studies have also shown that the number of companies planning to open a worksite center doubled between 2007 and 2011 because employers are looking for a way to lower health care costs and support their bottom line.”