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Ohio Health

Not-for-profit health organization serving central Ohio.

Headquarters: 180 East Broad St.
Columbus, OH 43215
Employees: 14,000
CEO: David Blom
Not-for-profit

OhioHealth is a family of not-for-profit, faith-based hospitals and healthcare organizations serving patients in central Ohio since 1891. It is a family of 15 hospitals, 20 health and surgery centers, home-health providers, medical equipment and health service suppliers throughout a 46-county area.

Ohio Health is made up of: Riverside Methodist Hospital, Grant Medical Center, Doctors Hospital, Grady Memorial Hospital, Dublin Methodist Hospital, Doctors Hospital-Nelsonville, Hardin Memorial Hospital, Marion General Hospital, OhioHealth Ambulatory Services, HomeReach, OhioHealth Foundation.

In 2006, Ohio Health had 2,000 staffed hospital beds, 108,000 total admissions and 325,000 emergency visits. There were 12,000 births in 2006 with 2,300 total physicians.

Ohio Health has been named one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For by Fortune magazine.

Benefits

Medical Benefits
Ohio Health offers three plans to choose from.
Dental Benefits
OhioHealth offers dental coverage through Delta Dental. The Plan has three tiers: Preferred, Premier, and Out of Network. Your reimbursement is determined by the provider you choose.
Vision Service Plan (VSP)
VSP is a group vision plan that operates with a provider network. VSP promotes wellness through a comprehensive eyecare program. The plan provides for periodic eye examinations, once every 12 months, as well as other services and corrective eyewear needed to correct the patient's visual needs.
Flexible Spending Accounts
OhioHealth offers Health Care and Dependent Care Spending Accounts on a pre-tax basis, which provides you with tax savings. Besides saving on your taxes, these Spending Accounts let you budget and allocate your out-of-pocket health and dependent care expenses more evenly throughout the year.
Health Care Spending Account
In this account, you can set aside up to $4,000 a year ($130 minimum) in pre-tax money to pay for your out-of-pocket medical, dental, vision and hearing care expenses.
Dependent Care Spending Account
This account allows you to pay daycare expenses up to $5,000 ($130 minimum) for children and disabled or elderly family members with before-tax dollars.
Basic Life Insurance for You
OhioHealth offers group term life insurance at several levels to help meet your need for financial protection. You can choose from the following options for life insurance on yourself:
- Flat amount of $10,000
- 1 times your annual salary (up to $150,000)
- 2 times your annual salary (up to $300,000)
- 3 times your annual salary (up to $450,000)
- 4 times your annual salary (up to $600,000)
The cost for this insurance protection depends on the amount of the insurance you select. Evidence of insurability is required for coverage over $400,000.
Life Insurance for Your Dependents
In order to elect life insurance for your dependents, you must elect life insurance for yourself.
OhioHealth provides you with the opportunity to choose one of two dependent Life Plans. This insurance is available through UNUM Provident Life Insurance Company. Options are as follows:
Basic Dependent Life
Spouse
$10,000
Child 6 months to 21 years (25 if full-time student)
$5,000
Infant live birth but less than 6 months
$1,000

Optional Dependent Life
This plan provides you with the opportunity to elect the coverage amount for your spouse and/or dependent children. Options for spouse is $5,000 increments up to $100,00 (EOI required for amount above $25,000 and for future increases). Options for child(ren) are $5,000 or $10,000.
Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance for You and Your Family
Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance helps protect against financial loss if you or a family member is severely injured or killed in an accident. The amount of benefit that AD&D pays depends on the coverage you select. AD&D is strictly for injuries or death as a result of an accident. You can choose from the following benefit options for yourself, or yourself and your family: $25,000; $50,000; $100,000; $150,000; $200,000; $250,000.
Long-Term Disability Insurance (LTD)
Long-Term Disability Insurance protects your income if an injury or illness keeps you from working for an extended period of time. This program picks up where the Temporary Disability Pay (TDP) program leaves off. LTD coverage replaces 60% of your pre-disability pay and begins paying benefits when you have been unable to work due to an injury or illness for more than 120 days.
Business Travel Accident Insurance
OhioHealth provides $50,000 of travel accident insurance.
Long-Term Care
OhioHealth offers Long-Term Care coverage through AFLAC, which provides the assistance you need if you or your spouse has a chronic condition leaving you unable to care for yourself for an extended period of time. Benefits include:
- Nursing home care
- Assisted living
- Home health care
- First occurrence benefit when diagnosed as being critically ill
Accident Protection Policy
OhioHealth offers protection to you through AFLAC in the event of an accident. This Personal Accident Expense Plan is designed to help cover the expenses associated with an accidental injury. It pays you directly, unless you assign benefits, regardless of any other insurance you may have. Benefits include:
- Accident hospital confinement
- Accidental death and dismemberment
- Accident emergency treatment
- Transportation, family lodging
- Wellness benefits
Auto and Home, Pet and Legal Insurance
OhioHealth has teamed with MetLife to offer the following programs. You can pay for them through convenient payroll deductions.
Auto & Home Insurance
This program features benefits and conveniences that are designed to save you money. Through this program you can apply to insure your auto, home, other property and yourself against personal liability at special group rates.
Pet Insurance
Veterinary Pet Insurance (VPI) can help you handle the every-increasing cost of caring for your pets when they are ill or injured.
MetLaw
MetLaw provides you and your family with legal services from experienced attorneys through Hyatt Legal Plans. With MetLaw you can receive legal advice services for a wide range of legal matters.

Updated November 17, 2007