Comings & Goings: Dot Food opens on-site health care clinic

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DOT Foods cuts ribbon on onsite family health center

Dot Foods last week opened a new facility designed to give employees convenient access to high-quality, low-cost health care at its Williamsport distribution center.

The new Dot Foods Family Health Center at 16305 Elliott Parkway, is on the campus of the company’s Maryland distribution center, according to a news release from DOT Foods. Services at the new facility are available to all employees covered by the Dot health plan and their dependent family members.

Dot Foods opened a new facility designed to give employees convenient access to high-quality, low-cost health care at its Williamsport distribution center. Pictured, from left, are: David Hess, Dot Foods Williamsport director of transportation; Jerry Souders, Dot Foods Williamsport maintenance manager; George Wright, Premise Health associate vice president operations; Cheryl Strunk, Premise Health vice president of operations; Matt Holt, Dot Foods vice president of distribution centers; Terri Scott, Dot Foods Williamsport HR manager; Mandi Clark, Dot Foods vice president of HR; Brian Duffield, Dot Foods east region general manager; Chelsea Reed, Dot Foods senior director of benefits; Sarah Fiedler, family nurse practitioner, Premise Health; Melissa Hagan, Premise Health director of client operations; Kelly Oliver, Dot Foods benefits manager; Ben Zieger, Dot Foods Williamsport director of warehousing.

“We want our employees and their loved ones to have healthy, fulfilled lives,” Mandi Clark, Dot’s vice president of human resources, said in the release. “We’re a family business. And from day one, our co-founders Robert and Dorothy Tracy made it a point to treat their employees like family."

The Maryland clinic is the ninth at Dot facilities, the first opening in 2013 in Georgia, Clark said.

The Maryland distribution center employs the largest number of people outside of Dot’s headquarters in Mount Sterling, Ill. The new Family Health Center serves approximately 600 people, including employees, their spouses, and dependent children age 2 and over enrolled in Dot’s medical insurance.

Premise Health operates the center, which includes two exam rooms, a lab and office space, according to the release. The more than 1,700-square-foot facility offers a wide variety of health care services including preventative screenings, condition management, and education for high blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol, and more. Employees can use the Family Health Center as their primary care provider; annual physicals, wellness screenings, CDL certification, lab work, flu vaccines, and generic prescriptions are offered at little or no cost to employees.

The Dot Foods Family Health Center is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The Williamsport clinic began seeing patients earlier this month, according to the release.

Amazon to hire 650 people in Hagerstown for holiday season

Online retail giant Amazon recently announced it would be hiring more than 650 people at its Hagerstown operations in preparation for the holiday season. The new hires are part of 9,000 the company plans to hire in Maryland and more than 250,000 it plans to hire nationwide.

Jobs available will include full-time, seasonal, and part-time roles across the operations network, according to a news release sent last week by the company.

Customer fulfillment and transportation employees can earn, on average, more than $20.50 per hour for those roles, and up to $28 depending on location, according to the news release. Interested candidates go to amazon.com/apply for more information.

Amazon announced last week that it would be hiring 650 people for its Hagerstown operations in preparation for the holiday season.
Amazon announced last week that it would be hiring 650 people for its Hagerstown operations in preparation for the holiday season.

Since 2010, Amazon has invested more than $13.5 billion in Maryland, including infrastructure and compensation to employees, and has created more than 25,000 direct jobs, according to the news release.

The investment includes residence in a 1 million-square-foot warehouse developed by NorthPoint Development on Wesel Boulevard in Hagerstown and a warehouse on Crayton Boulevard, developed by Trammel Crow and now owned by Preylock Holdings, that is about 1.2 million square feet.

These investments support an additional 18,900 indirect jobs across the state, in fields like construction and professional services, and have contributed more than $12 billion to the Maryland GDP, on top of the company’s direct investments, according to the release.

More: What would fit inside one of those million-square-foot warehouses? Quite a lot, actually

SEK wins best of accounting award

SEK, CPAs & Advisors announced that the firm has won ClearlyRated's 2023 Best of Accounting Award, according to a news release from SEK. This is the third consecutive year SEK has won this award.

Award winners have proven to be industry leaders in service quality based entirely on ratings from their clients, according to the release. SEK received satisfaction scores of 9 or 10 out of 10 from 91.3% of their clients, significantly higher than the accounting industry average of 50% in 2022.

The firm received a Net Promoter Score of 90%, compared to the accounting industry’s average of 39% in 2022, according to the release. Used by more than two-thirds of Fortune 1000 companies, NPS is a satisfaction metric based on a single survey question that asks clients how likely they would be, on a scale of 0-10, to recommend a company to a friend or colleague. According to global NPS standards, a score of 50% or above is considered “excellent,” with above 70% considered “world-class.”

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