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6 steps for selecting and opening an employee health center

Learn how to launch a health center that improves care, drives better outcomes, and reduces your healthcare costs.
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Traditional benefits strategies are no longer enough to combat rising healthcare costs. An employee health center provides direct access to advanced primary care where your workforce needs it most. This guide offers a clear roadmap to determine if an onsite health center is the right fit for your organization and how to get there.

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WHAT'S INSIDE

A practical roadmap for better care and lower costs

What this guide covers

This guide outlines six steps to evaluate, select, and launch an employee health center. Learn how to assess readiness, drive engagement, and improve chronic condition management while creating financial stability for your organization.

Who it's for

Whether you are exploring this model for the first time or preparing to move forward with a vendor, this guide provides the frameworks, questions, and considerations you need to make confident, informed decisions at every stage.

THE CHALLENGE

Fragmented care is straining your workforce

Healthcare costs keep climbing, and the systems meant to keep employees healthy are falling short. Employers manage an average of 12 or more point solutions—many overlapping, underperforming, or going unused—while chronic conditions continue to drive the majority of health spend.

  • Fragmented benefits create gaps in care and missed cost-savings

  • Chronic conditions remain top cost drivers

  • Low employee engagement with benefits limits ROI and health outcomes

These challenges compound over time. Without a coordinated care strategy built on prevention and access, rising costs deliver diminishing returns. An employee health center brings care closer to your people and gives your benefits strategy a foundation for measurable, lasting impact.

WHAT THIS GUIDE DELIVERS

Six proven steps to evaluate, launch, and sustain an employee health center

How to assess feasibility and align on your goals

Build the internal foundation—workforce structure, insurance model, and claims data—to evaluate your options with confidence and set realistic savings expectations from the start.

What to look for when researching and selecting a vendor

Not all vendors are built the same. This section outlines the key questions to ask—covering pricing, provider retention, and engagement strategies—so you can find a partner whose success is tied to yours.

How to promote the health center and sustain engagement

Learn how to build pre-launch excitement, use incentive programs, and develop an ongoing communications plan that keeps your workforce engaged and your health center delivering results.

  • At Marathon Health, our providers get more time with patients, have more opportunities to promote healthy habits, and are able to team with other providers who share a singular mission—enabling patients to live their healthiest lives.
    JEFF WELLS, MD
    Co-Founder, Marathon Health
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Your roadmap to a healthier, more cost-effective workforce

This guide gives you a clear, actionable path to evaluate whether an employee health center is right for your organization—and how to make it work. From feasibility to opening day, you'll have the frameworks and guidance to move forward with confidence.
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