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Article: Employers look to cut costs with family medical centers at worksites.(Spotlight: Work & Life Benefits)(Smithfield Foods Inc. offers family medical center, pharmacy adjacent to meat processing facility)
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- Business Insurance
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- October 27, 2003
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Byline: ROBERTO CENICEROS
A growing number of employers are looking to address rising medical costs and improve employee health care by opening family medical centers and pharmacies near their worksites.
"With escalating costs, you have to be willing to take a different shot at the problem and see if there are alternative solutions,'' said Sherrie String, vp of human resources for Smithfield, Va.-based Smithfield Foods Inc.
After evaluating alternatives in the fight to hold down rising medical costs, Smithfield in late August opened a family medical center and pharmacy adjacent to a meat processing facility it owns in Tar Heel, N.C. About 5,000 ...