In an effort to control health care costs, large companies are opening their own clinics for their employees and hiring doctors to staff them. Here is an article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel which outlines the model of practices such as these in the area.

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NJ’s Asbury Park Press profiles Perdue Farms’ on-site health clinics, which provide primary care as well as lab work, ob-gyn and prenatal care to the company’s workers.

An estimated 23 percent of large employers, with at least 1,000 employees, have on-site health clinics according to a 2006-2007 survey by the human resource consulting firm Watson Wyatt Worldwide. Another 6 percent of these large employers plan to add clinics next year.

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