Creating a work environment that fosters employee productivity is forefront in the minds of many employers I work with in the Phoenix area. While productivity is important, how employers approach it can be different. A holistic approach to employees and their well-being can help create a more productive workforce. Mental well-being plays a significant role in an individual’s … [More]
Data and Analytics for the Right Care to the Right Patients at the Right Time
Data and analytics are the operative words in healthcare. The challenge is no longer getting information but, rather, figuring out what to do with it. Arizona Care Network has found a way to harness Big Data to help its nearly 6,000 physician partners prioritize care for patients who need them the most. ACN developed a proprietary algorithm to stratify patients according to … [More]
Dental Marketplace, Online
The first-ever online dental marketplace — and the only alternative to traditional dental insurance — launched its website out of Arizona a year ago, in March 2018. It was founded with the aim of helping consumers save on dental services and procedures, as well as assist dental practices in growing their client base. “Insurance options have simply become unaffordable for … [More]
Why Hospitals Must Seek Scale
Each day seems to bring a new outcry that hospitals are attempting to get bigger to raise prices. A recent article, for example, said that hospitals are “behemoths” that are “throwing their weight around”… and have “essentially banished competition and raised prices for hospital admissions.” Reading these articles, you would think it was 1985, rather than closing in on … [More]
Small Businesses Gain the Buying Power of Big Corporations in Healthcare Benefits
CarynHealth, the small-business association health plan brand of Association Health Plans of America, LLC, offers an “association in the box,” the next-generation approach to the small employer healthcare marketplace. AHPA was formed to meet the breakthrough opportunity provided by the Association Health Plan regulation recently put forth by the U.S. Department of Labor … [More]
DoL Offers New Tool to Help Employers Understand Mental Health Issues
The U.S. Department of Labor has launched a new resource that helps employers better understand mental health issues, and provides valuable information and guidance for employers on strategies for recruiting, hiring, retaining, and advancing people with disabilities in the workplace. Created in coordination with the Department’s Office of Disability Employment Policy and its … [More]
Workplace Wellness
The landscape of healthcare is in constant flux. This adds an extra element of concern for employers, for whom healthcare benefits are an important part of their operating calculations. Businesses serving those employers’ needs innovate their programs and services as advances in knowledge and technology open new avenues. In Business Magazine asked some of our local leaders … [More]
Workplace Wellness with Frank Molinaro
CEO, Abrazo Community Health Network Arizona Group CEO, Tenet Healthcare What innovations and products have you launched recently or are preparing? First and foremost, Abrazo Community Health Network is focused on providing quality care in a safe environment. Our employees, physicians and volunteers collaborate as a community of care with support for continuing education to … [More]
Workplace Wellness with Paul D. Barnes, Ph.D.
Arizona Plan President Arizona Complete Health What innovations and/or products have you launched recently or are preparing? We have a couple of exciting programs designed to make accessing healthcare easier and more rewarding. Ambetter Telehealth powered by Teladoc is our convenient, 24-hour access to in-network Ambetter healthcare providers for non-emergency health … [More]
Workplace Wellness with Thomas J. Grote
CEO Banner/Aetna What innovations and/or products have you launched recently or are preparing? In 2019, we will continue to make progress in providing a more simplified healthcare delivery process that makes it easier for members to access the care they need at an affordable cost. We will be launching a new virtual healthcare offering this year, allowing members to get the … [More]
Workplace Wellness with Paige Rothermel
Chief Growth Officer Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona What innovations and/or products have you launched recently or are preparing? At Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona, our customers are at the center of everything we do. We understand that Arizonans need access to health and wellness services that will help them live healthier lives. Healthcare is complicated and our goal … [More]
Workplace Wellness with Kim Shepard
Arizona Market President Cigna What innovations and products have you launched recently or are preparing? It’s important for employers to build and maintain a healthy, productive workforce. As a global health service company, Cigna focuses on total health — physical and mental — and partners with employers to consult with them and design the right programs and benefits that … [More]
Workplace Wellness with Allan Allford
President and CEO Delta Dental of Arizona What innovations and products have you launched recently or are preparing? It’s been an exciting 18 months at Delta Dental of Arizona. Last year, we introduced new dental plans for individuals and families that emphasize the importance of establishing good oral health habits at an early age by waiving premiums for children less than … [More]
Workplace Wellness with Bob Meyer
President & CEO Phoenix Children’s What innovations and/or products have you launched recently or are preparing? Our focus is providing high-quality, highly specialized pediatric healthcare to children and families across Arizona. The goal is to simplify access for our patient families, to ensure they receive services no matter which part of town they live in. To that … [More]
Workplace Wellness with David F. Berg
President and Co-founder Redirect Health What innovations and products have you launched recently or are preparing? We’ve always been highly focused on helping small businesses provide affordable and meaningful access to healthcare, so we could turn this into their recruiting and retention advantage over larger competitors. Today, many of these companies and people are … [More]
Workplace Wellness with David A. Dexter
President and CEO, Sonora Quest Laboratories, LLC President and CEO for Laboratory Sciences of Arizona, LLC What innovations and/or products have you launched recently or are preparing? Sonora Quest is committed to providing innovative solutions to assist in improving health outcomes, including employers and employee wellness. One key to employee wellness is awareness. By … [More]
Workplace Wellness with Wendy Arnone
Regional CEO, Employer & Individual UnitedHealthcare What innovations and products have you launched recently or are preparing? Technology is continuing to change how all Arizonans navigate the healthcare system, with new advances putting information at our fingertips and creating a more seamless and interactive healthcare experience. This results in improved health … [More]
New Med School Augments Phoenix’s ‘MedTown’ Triangle
On what has been part of the parking lot for Park Central, the mid-town Phoenix mall on Central Avenue, Creighton University will be building a two-story, 180,000-square-foot medical school and student residences. The four-year health sciences campus is part of the adaptive reuse of the Southwest’s first enclosed shopping mall; Creighton is taking the southeast corner of the … [More]
