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In 2021, Stephanie Koch realized that the 300-person workforce at Hendry Marine Industries (HMI) was underutilizing the shipyard’s preventive health offerings — and she took it as a cry for help.
“We knew we needed to find convenient care for our employees,” says Koch, the company’s HR directory. “We wanted to make sure they were taking care of themselves, or else we’d have either catastrophic claims or we’d have fatalities.”
Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio
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