This company wants to revolutionize health care and has set its sights on expansion in DFW
Premise Health is changing the way workers receive primary care, and the company’s model is expanding in Fort Worth.
Premise plans to open a wellness center in Westlake in July and hire at least 20 employees.
“As the population moves, so does our growth trajectory,” said Premise Health President Jami Doucette. “As more folks and more businesses engage in the Metroplex and Fort Worth specifically as either a home base or satellite base, our growth will follow those populations to serve their employees and dependents.”
Wellness centers are one of Premise Health’s three methods for delivering care. These centers operate in the community, near clients’ homes. Premise also operates onsite single-client health centers at member workplaces and provides telehealth services.
The company has more than 300,000 members in the Metroplex. Its clients are large employers, unions and trusts, so employers can partner with Premise Health to provide health care for their workers.
Premise operates 20 onsite wellness centers throughout the Metroplex.
The pandemic has highlighted the usefulness of community-based health care facilities, Doucette said.
They provide “a better opportunity to serve the dependent population as well as, in today’s environment, a hybrid work population or a remote work population,” he said.
Doucette describes the care delivery system as value-based rather than volume-based. Providers see fewer patients each day and as a result are able to spend more time with each client.
Health care providers also use the framework of social determinants of health — the understanding that living and working conditions affect health outcomes — to treat patients.
For example, instead of simply recommending healthy eating, they’d engage the patient about access to groceries and provide relevant information.
This story was originally published November 15, 2021 at 5:30 AM.
