{"id":1045944,"date":"2026-09-06T00:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T00:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1045944\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T00:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T00:53:18","slug":"boeing-opens-its-own-medical-clinic-at-port-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1045944\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing opens its own medical clinic at Port San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boeing opened a new, 4,200-square-foot medical clinic near its Port San Antonio facility, where it will provide low- or no-cost primary care to its workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It could soon open to other employers <a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/study-shows-port-san-antonio-contributed-10-6b-to-texas-gdp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">at Port San Antonio<\/a>, who say that this type of healthcare opportunity can improve health outcomes and lower insurance costs for their workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boeing spokesperson Dee Russell said the clinic will provide \u201csame- or next-day virtual and in-person primary care services, including mental health support, physical therapy, chiropractic care, health coaching, and specialist referrals,\u201d to its employees and their families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The clinic offers primary care, but clinicians can also refer patients to other specialists for more important treatments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six clinicians with two workers in clinical support roles are able to provide 140 visits per week, Russell added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis approach not only reduces long-term healthcare costs but also helps Boeing manage health insurance expenses sustainably, allowing us to continue offering great benefits that meet employees\u2019 needs,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/crossover-health-onsite-dental-clinic-09020.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5452329\"  \/>Inside the new Crossover Health clinic at Port San Antonio. Credit: Courtesy \/ Port San Antonio<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new clinic is in partnership with Crossover Health, a primary healthcare provider that has seven clinics in Texas and more than a dozen across the country. Crossover has already partnered with Boeing in the Seattle and St. Louis areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The healthcare provider also has another clinic in San Antonio at Frost Bank Tower, said Chief Medical Officer Dr. Stephen Ezeji-Okoye. He said Crossover wants to offer patients more than just basic treatments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur care process is really about providing holistic care,\u201d Ezeji-Okoye said. \u201cIt\u2019s not just the absence of disease, it\u2019s making sure people are healthy beyond the biological.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s why Crossover offers mental health support, physical therapy and a chiropractor, he added. Ezeji-Okoye said primary care is an opportunity to look at the whole person, not just an individual issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou are not just mitigating illness, you\u2019re trying to prevent illness and prolong their healthspans, the period of time when they\u2019re healthy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The space also provides dental services by Onsite Dental, a California-based mobile dentistry company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russell said Boeing has used this clinic model since 2015. The company has <a href=\"https:\/\/boeingprimarycare.com\/puget-sound\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">clinics in St. Louis, Seattle and Mesa<\/a>. In the Seattle and Mesa areas, Boeing has multiple clinics its workers can go to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur patient-focused primary care model has emphasized prevention and early intervention,\u201d she said. \u201cBy keeping patients healthy and providing same- or next-day appointments, we help catch health concerns early\u2014avoiding more expensive emergency room visits and hospital admissions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boeing isn\u2019t alone. On-site clinics have become more and more popular among employers, said Allison De Paoli, who runs <a href=\"https:\/\/altiqe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Altique<\/a>, a San Antonio-based health insurance consultancy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their accessibility and low cost are popular with employees, she said, and help employers contain health insurance costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The system creates a dependable cost for businesses, she said. Rather than dealing with insurance rates or expensive medical emergencies that can impact budgets, clinics have a stable cost from year to year. It\u2019s something De Paoli has worked on with other clients in San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe will use that whenever we can because it\u2019s so effective at containing costs,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Insurance rates in Texas could be set to climb by 16%, De Paoli added, and employers should be looking at ways to reduce that increase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The clinic could soon be an option to the other businesses that operate at Port San Antonio. Staff at the sprawling research campus, which once housed Kelly Air Force Base, will start using the facility in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President and CEO Jim Perschbach said the clinic will be a good, supplemental resource for Port San Antonio workers and could help attract other companies to the site because it provides employees with a low-cost way to take care of themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re big believers that the more you take care of your health, the easier it is to fix you up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boeing opened a new, 4,200-square-foot medical clinic near its Port San Antonio facility, where it will provide low-&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1045945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,18819,418567,3168,1142,418568,26472,14214,7202,7203,358,7453,3187,7815,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7819],"class_list":["post-1045944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-america","tag-boeing","tag-crossover-health","tag-health-insurance","tag-healthcare","tag-onsite-dental","tag-port-san-antonio","tag-primary-care","tag-san-antonio","tag-sanantonio","tag-texas","tag-top-story","tag-tx","tag-typedaily","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wc-500-750"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117221367827685958","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1045945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}