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Onsite and near-site clinics are two options that companies can choose from when deciding to offer employer-provided healthcare. Both types of clinics offer many benefits to both employees and the company providing the service. Depending on the specific needs of your company and your employee group, one may offer an advantage over the other.

There are endless details that go into implementing an onsite clinic; correctly predicting cost, purchasing the appropriate equipment, ensuring the right amount of space for your services, staffing. It's not over once the clinic is set up; it also takes a lot of industry-specific knowledge to manage a clinic such as understanding medical-specific liability and responsibilities, vendor management, and staff management. If this all sounds like a lot to take on alone, you could consider partnering with an onsite clinic vendor for help. Here are a few benefit of partnering with an onsite clinic vendor.

A well-designed onsite clinic is customized to the needs of your workforce at any given time. Therefore, it can be difficult to measure the ROI of an onsite clinic, and there is no universally agreed-upon method to do so within the industry. What we do know is that asking a couple of months in, "has this saved us money or cost us money" isn't necessarily the way to go.

An important step when implementing the clinic with your service provider is to evaluate the needs of your specific employee group at that moment in time and set some targeted goals. This will allow you to track progress around those goals and give you a measure of the clinic's successes, shortcomings, and ROI. You could also do an evaluation of past claims data and build some projections for what things would have looked like if you kept on with the status quo without your onsite clinic.

NeoPath is a service-based provider, family owned and operated since 2008. We specialize in cultivating relationships with our clients and patients to meet their unique needs. This rings especially true when it comes to the discussion of our pricing and your clinic costs. The primary reason the company was created was to help companies and their employees gain control over rising healthcare costs. As a strategic partner, our goal is to help turn healthcare from a cost into a competitive advantage. Below is a breakdown of things to know about our pricing.

You may have noticed in the news last year that Amazon and Apple were joining the ranks of behemoth companies opening their own healthcare facilities, or onsite clinics, for their workforce. The names on the list of companies that offer onsite clinics can seem almost a little intimidating... Tesla, 3M, Target. But, you don't have to have a big factory or thousands of employees to realize the benefits of an onsite clinic. In fact, there are many benefits to an onsite clinic that could uniquely impact your small to medium sized business.

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When you hire NeoPath to assist with your onsite clinic building process, you are hiring a team of experts that have partnered-with and consulted numerous clients from all different points within the implementation process. Our team here at NeoPath will take the risky guesswork out of the process for you as we have the aptitude and ability to make sure you get the most of your budget. Our advice allows you to eliminate any potentially wasted valuable time or dollars on unnecessary expenditures and ensure you follow all of the complex regulations that go along with operating a medical facility from the very beginning.

One of the first and most important decisions to make regarding an onsite clinic is how it will be managed. The management model selected for an onsite clinic will have an effect on everything from the type of furniture in the waiting room to the level of experience of the clinic staff. You'll want to decide on a management model very early on in the process because the choice can affect how you implement your clinic, including construction and staffing.

The critical focus and innovation boom in the healthcare sector won't be slowing in 2019. Science and technology are continuing to push forward exciting, new medical advancements, and a focus on greater returns for patients is opening doors to a higher quality of care. Here are some emerging healthcare trends in 2019 to watch for.

One of the final steps prior to being able to open your onsite clinic to your employees is hiring your clinic staff. Although this may be one of the last pieces to fit into the puzzle, you'll want to begin planning for it in the early stages of implementation. Hiring can be a time-consuming process and there are many different options to consider when looking at staffing an onsite clinic. We've compiled a step-by-step guide to help make the process a bit more streamlined.