Purpose
The intent of this business plan is to reduce unnecessary costs and reorganize existing tracks for employees, specifically those who are returning users of this service. By reorganizing wellness tracks, employees who wish to use this service repeatedly will have more options that will help them remain engaged with Healthy Horizons.
Background
Employee clinics run at no charge to the employee are thought to reduce an institutions cost to insure their employees. This is done by preventing long term complications of chronic disease states. The pharmacist can play a vital role by conducting wellness consults and providing education to patients among other services.
The Clinic
The clinic will continue to be held at Butler University and run by a pharmacist. Services provided will include wellness consults, laboratory services, diabetes education, medication management, and tobacco cessation counseling. Employees are able to make their own appointments, where initial appointments will last 45 minutes and additional appointment will last 30 minutes each. In our plan, the wellness tracks will be restructured for returning employees in an attempt to offer variability to an already well-used service which included 399 employees in 2018 according to Dr. Sheena Sanders, Pharm.D., BCPS, written communications on November 15, 2019.
The Finances
Based on the nature of Healthy Horizons, revenue will not be generated. By following guideline directed lab testing for patients, the clinic is projected to avoid a maximum of $8,650.32 – $9,951.06 based on patient data from 2018. The additional funds will be used to provide incentives to employees in the form of additional wellness track options.
Conclusion
Following guideline directed lab testing will provide additional funds to allow Healthy Horizons to reorganize the current wellness tracks and provide additional incentives/ activities for the employees who use the clinic. By doing so, it is hypothesized that employees will remain engaged. Additionally, restructuring incentives will allow for an additional FTE to be considered.