Business View Magazine | December 2018

92 93 we have all the diagnostics; radiology; MRI and CT; mammography; a full-service laboratory; we have a chemotherapy program; an effusion pro- gram; cardiac rehab; we have PT (Physical Thera- py); OT (Occupational Therapy) - all the traditional community hospital offerings.” EBCH has a staff of about 100. Essential Health Ely, a primary care clinic, and Boundary Waters Care Center, a long-term care facility, are both independent businesses that lease space on its campus to provide a health care center for the community. EBCH serves the people of Ely, as well as the neighboring communities of Babbitt, Win- ton, Isabella, Soudan, and Tower. Ely, itself, has a population of only 3,500 people, but in the sum- mertime the area swells with over 125,000-plus visitors that use Ely as a jumping off point into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BW- CAW), a 1,090,000-acre wilderness area within the Superior National Forest in the northeastern part of Minnesota. Coyle believes that the hospital’s location is one of the competitive advantages it has over a few other hospitals within its 50-mile radius. “Our busy season is all summer long,” he explains. “That’s when we quadruple all of our business. People are coming out of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and people are coming up here for outbound activities, and we just are placed most appropriately to the access points to all of those. So the right location helps.” “But our number one edge is our employees,” Coyle maintains. “We’re kind of a haven for people who want to get out of the metro area, and we ELY-BLOOMENSON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OneAmerica® surpassed the $2 billion annual sales milestone for the first time in 2018, with over 50 per- cent of new business coming from employer-provided tax-exempt retirement plans, including the healthcare industry. Medical organizations, doctor groups, long-term care facilities and hospital associations, just to name a few, recognize that OneAmerica is well-informed on the common challenges that plague retirement plans, as well as how to address the concerns (performance, pricing and participation) that keep plan sponsors up at night. OneAmerica, whose roots in the tax-exempt industry date to 1964, pledges to optimize every participant’s dollar, keep the plan compliant, and flex solutions to address the client’s plan design needs ─ not the other way around. We’re responsive, offering services such as an increasingly popular customer concierge program. And, thanks to years of offering effective educational tools, OneAmerica knows how to work alongside plan sponsors to motivate plan participants to contribute. In fact, contributions are about 25 percent higher per person than our for-profit counterparts. Those in healthcare tirelessly make it their mission to help patients, while OneAmerica strives to make your retirement journey our priority. In the end, we’re both focused on successful out- comes.  OneAmerica® is the marketing name for the compa- nies of OneAmerica. To learn more about the compa- nies of OneAmerica, visit oneamerica.com . Optimization and Outcomes