Apple is launching a assemblage of health clinics called AC Wellness for its employees and their families this happen suddenly, according to several sources familiar with the company’s plans.
The enterprise quietly published a website, acwellness.com, with more details forth its initiative and a careers page listing jobs including primary attend to doctor, exercise coach and care navigator, as well as a phlebotomist to deliver lab tests on-site.
This new primary care group — a group of clinical pike that is run independently from Apple but is dedicated to Apple employees — settle upon initially only serve Apple’s employees in Santa Clara County, where its headquarters are established. Initially, it has two clinics in the county.
Development appears to be well underway.
A job listing for the “network” posted on Indeed.com details “multiple, stunning state-of-the-art medical centers,” in Santa Clara, a few miles north of its headquarters in Cupertino. One of the centers is at the new Apple Reservation campus, another job listing states.
And a LinkedIn search reveals that ex- Stanford Health Care employees have been affiliated with AC Wellness for at small five months, although there’s no mention of Apple on the people’s describes. Several of the job listings on Apple’s site as of Tuesday, however, describe AC Wellness as a “subsidiary of Apple, Inc.” A medical team can contract out to nonmedical administrators through a subsidiary.
An Apple spokesperson fell to be quoted for this story.
The news comes as Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and J.P. Morgan averred ajoint effort to improve health care for their employees.
Transferring better primary care is key to the success of all of these employee-led efforts because it’s far cheaper to abort disease than treat people who are already sick.
Health problems culminate in 69 million workers reporting missed days each year, knock down economic output by $260 billion per year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disorder Control and Prevention.
Aside from the typical roles involved with a fundamental care clinic, Apple is also looking to hire “designers” who desire help implement a program focused on preventing disease and promoting fit behavior. It’s looking for a population health designer and clinical program make-up lead, listings show.
These designers will work with in forces and technology teams.
Sources said the company will leverage its medical clinics as a way to assay its growing range of health services and products, which it is starting to rotation out to consumers at large.
It is currently working with Stanford to study whether its Apple Skinned for can detect irregularities with the heart’s rhythm, an effort that transfer benefit from a huge population of healthy and sick patients.
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently commanded shareholders that it could make a “significant contribution” in health caution.
Apple recently scaled back its contract with its current in-house clinic via a start-up apostrophize b supplicated Crossover Health, which CNBC reported that it had considered swallowing.
Sources said that it started notifying third-party vendors nearby the shift to its own network of health clinics this week.
Additional AC Wellness farm outs are also listed on Glassdoor and Indeed.com.
Here’s a screenshot of the job listing traversing AC Wellness as an Apple subsidiary: