Walgreens 2008 Annual Report Download - page 13

2008 Walgreens Annual Report Page 11
Worksite clinics produce
healthy growth
Employees and their families at The Scotts
Miracle-Gro Company headquarters in
Marysville, Ohio, benefit from Walgreens
on-site fitness, nutrition, primary care,
urgent care, occupational health and
physical therapy services. Here, trainer
Chris Slagle helps the spouse of an
employee stay in shape in conjunction
with his physical therapy treatments.
At fiscal year-end, Walgreens operated
clinics on 364 employer campuses across
more than 180 clients in 42 states,
the District of Columbia and Guam.
Building a blue-chip
client base
Through the March acquisitions of I-trax
in Pennsylvania and Whole Health
Management in Cleveland, Walgreens
now operates worksite health centers
in corporations including the blue-chip
names below.
Today, Walgreens is the largest operator
of worksite health centers in the country
through its Take Care Health Employer
Solutions group. The group is part of the
company’s new Health & Wellness division,
formed last spring to operate Walgreens
in-store Take Care Clinics and employer
worksite health centers.
Worksite health centers redefine “Main and
Main” to include places of employment. The
goal is to provide access to high-quality health
and wellness programs for our clients and their
employees, while generating new patients,
incremental revenue and additional profits.
Research shows that these facilities lower
overall employer health costs. Darrell
Douglas, a former health care specialist for
Blue Ridge Paper (now part of Evergreen
Packaging), found that over a five-year
period the factory’s worksite health center
reduced costs by 6 percent, or more than
$17.5 million. Short-term disability cases
at the facility declined by 30 percent and
sick days dropped by nearly 50 percent.