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Win-Win Employee Wellness Centers Reap Multiple Benefits

March 29, 2019 by Bailey LeRoux

By Julie Anderson
Editor

When using the analogy of “the domino effect,” the prompted image is of dominoes falling down. However, when it comes to employee health clinics, the metaphor works in reverse. As per the definition, one change causes another change that causes another. And in this case, the dominoes pull one another up. Consider the “when-dominoes-fall” scenario. […]

Filed Under: Feature Story Tagged With: health care

General Counsel’s Report

August 2, 2018 by County Progress

Expansion of Telemedicine Authorized Recent legislation authorizing expansion of telemedicine in Texas should enable counties to achieve significant cost reduction and improved services in jail health services and indigent health care. Senate Bill 1107, effective Jan. 1, 2018, removed prior restrictions and increased the availability of telehealth services. Previously, the Texas Medical Board required doctors […]

Filed Under: Feature Story Tagged With: health care, jail, Jim Allison, S.B. 1107, technology, Texas Commission on Jail Standards

Employee Clinic Promotes Healthy Workforce, Healthy Bottom Line

March 5, 2018 by County Progress

What started as a one-room clinic in the basement of the Jefferson County Courthouse in 1999 has grown into a multiservice employee health clinic that has outgrown its location two times. The Jefferson County Employee Health Department Clinic was the first county employee clinic in the State of Texas. The brainchild of former Jefferson County […]

Filed Under: Feature Story, Indigent Health Care Tagged With: health care

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