Schumacher Clinical Partners (SCP) has announced four new WellnessWorks clients, to include: Frye Regional Medical Center in Hickory, NC; Hillcrest Hospital in Tulsa, OK; Abbeville Area Medical Center in Abbeville, SC; and Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, NM.
WellnessWorks, a Schumacher Clinical Partners service line since 2012, is an offering that links the ongoing healthcare needs of employers, employees, and family members to providers, and is designed to bring a coordinated approach in the delivery of healthcare services to an insured captive audience.
“Our WellnessWorks division is a trusted hospital resource and partner, with nearly 100 clients strong nationwide,” stated Byron Speights, President of WellnessWorks. “We strengthen commercial revenue for hospitals by forming partnerships between local healthcare organizations and employers through coordinating and satisfying their general health, preventive health, occupational health, and workers’ compensation needs.”
Denise Race, RN, BSN, MHA, Director of Operations Physician Practices/Orthopedics Program at Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center (GCRMC), stated that GCRMC decided to collaborate with Wellness Works in order to provide a more diverse and essential service to the citizens of the community and to their employers within the community. “By partnering with WellnessWorks, it is the belief of GCRMC that we will be able to fulfill our mission statement ‘to be the organization where patients choose to come, physicians want to practice, and people want to work,’” explained Race.
The SCP WellnessWorks division also provides physician referral line services to more than 30 markets, as well as strategic ED Patient Navigation services customized to individual hospital needs.