More employees are using and liking worksite clinics, but their effect on health and costs is hard to quantify.
Researchers at Hewitt Associates Inc., Lincolnshire Ill., have published that conclusion in a summary of results from a survey of 248 large and midsize companies.
The researchers found that 19% offer medical clinics and 11% offer pharmaceutical services to employees in house.
About 25% of the employees who had access to onsite medical clinics used the the onsite clinics, and 50% of the employees who had access to onsite pharmacies used the onsite pharmacies.