Colo. Dealership Dispenses On-Site Medical Care
Many Dealerships offer employees wellness programs such as weight management, access to fitness equipment, and assistance with quitting smoking.
Then there's Phil long dealerships Automotive News; reports that last summer the dealership group opened a clinic inside Phil Long Ford Motor City in Colorado Springs, Colo. It's staffed part-time by a doctor and a physician assistant and full-time by a registered nurse, and dispenses the same type of medical care rendered by general practitioners and primary care physicians. The clinic is open to the group's employees and their families who are on the company's health care plan. That covers the majority of the group's nearly 900 employees at its 12 dealerships in Colorado and one in Raton, N.M. All of that is in addition to the healthy living expertise of Scott Uhalt, who has a doctorate in health promotions and was hired in 2002 as the dealership group's full-time wellness director. The idea is to keep employees healthy and productive and to help the company, which has been self-insured since 2006, manage its health care costs, says Jay Cimino, Phil Long CEO. The clinic opened in June, and its use is optional.
