Workplace clinic group is taking temperature of S.F. - San Francisco Business Times:

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Specific targets include largesoftware companies, specialty manufacturingv firms, biotechnology companies, selected financial institutions and others that emphasize the retention of well-trainer employees to stay competitive, said Sara Crate, WHM's Ore.-based senior vice president of busines s development. "We've identified at leas t 100 different locations" that would be logical clini sites, she said, including multiple sites at larger companies. "We look at campuses with a large concentratiojnof employees." But the tight-lipped company, whichn grew at a 26.
3 percent clip last year, won't name its sole Bay Area clien to date or say how many employeee it has locally, Crate said. Its new Noe Valley office is home toWholse Health's West Coast strategic partnerships department, accordinb to WHM, which works with major employeras such as publishing, , , , and . "Whole Health'sx strategic growth plan has allowed the company to expan d at a rapid pace acrossthe country," said Jim its founder and CEO, calling San Franciscko a top growth center. "We'rw looking forward to partnering with the San Francisck community to introduceour health-care modell to employers throughout the western Unitex States.
" Whole Health Management operates health and wellness centere for 27 of the nation'zs largest employers at 69 sites, providing health-care services to more than 300,000 employees, spouses and dependents. It opened 11 clinics in 2007. Many largs companies are workingwith on-site clinic specialists in the hope that making on-site and nearby clinics available will encouragde employees to get preventive care. That, in turn, couldc result in more productivity, less lost time and lower overalol health-care costs. Muir foundation chair after raising $1.5M Richard Tirrell, M.D.
, last week announcexd his retirement after four years as chair ofthe 's Medica l Staff Campaign, which has raised $1.5 million from 500 staff physicians for John Muir Health'sd new building expansion project in Walnut The Foundation expects to name a new chair of the Walnut Creek Medical Staff Campaign next month. The two-campusx hospital system is raising moneyu fora $621 million expansion and seismic rebuild of its Walnuyt Creek hospital, and for $170 million in additional work at John Muir'ss Concord campus, formerly knowjn as Mt. Diablo Medical Center.
Tirrell served on the John Muir Healtjh Foundation board from 1996 to 2001 and agreed in 2003 to chaidr the Walnut Creek MedicalStaff Campaign, aftee he retired from his medicalp practice as anesthesiologist. San Francisco' s Gordon & Rees LLP this month joined the West Coas t Health Care Consortium for Law coordinated by the benefits consulting firm andinsurances brokerage. Executive Director Mark Stephens said thelaw firm's expansionm to nine offices outside of California helpede fuel the decision. Other local law firm s in the insurance-purchasing consortium includde , and .
Cigna Healthcare provides medical and dental services to participating Some buy conventional coveragde and some useshared funding, a hybrid of self-insuref and insured coverage, said Rogetr Arlen, president and founder of San Francisco-based ArlenGroup, whicjh also has an office in Walnut Benefits include "material financial saving s ... more manageable and predictable increases," and expanded services, he said, in part due to use of multi-year commitments. Dallas-based has agreed to a multi-year agreement with , Tenet'ws second-largest managed-care payer nationally. The agreemenft will run four years, said Blue Cross of Californiaq spokesmanNick Garcia.
It takes effect Feb. 1 and covers 16 acute-carer hospitals in California, including and in the Bay Area. Financial term were not disclosed.