Hospital challenges employees to choose health.

نویسنده

  • R Weiss
چکیده

M ost businesses would seize an opportunity to attain high-quality health promot ion services that help keep employees healthy and result in fewer days lost to illness or injur)' and reduced medical claims and hospitalizations. Hut four years ago Everett, WA-based Providence Hospital ran into roadblocks when staff approached Pugct Sound businesses about contracting for the hospital's health-related screening and educational services.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Health progress

دوره 76 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1995