A well-established clinic that moved into the Frankfort area in November 2022 has launched a quick clinic as a means of expanding its array of services for the Clinton County community.
Work-Comp Management Services opened its doors on the Frankfort location on Nov. 1, 2022 at 2002 W. County Rd. 0 N/S in Frankfort to offer drug screenings, hearing tests, physicals and more alongside its service in work-comp related matters.
The clinic has also begun to delve into its quick clinic capabilities, including tests for strep throat and other diseases as well as sports physicals and other services.
Office Manager April Kaufman stated that the clinic performs DOT physicals, injury care follow-up for industrial care for worker’s compensation, work physicals, drug screenings alongside the quick clinic.
The quick clinic is self pay and helps community members test for strep throat, flu, COVID, ear infections and more while also having the opportunity to obtain vaccinations. The quick clinic was launched in January as a means of providing the comunity with a quicker and easier alternative to primary care visits, and Kaufman stated that the need was evident in Frankfort due to a limited selection of primary care physicians. Since its launch of the quick clinic, the clinic has seen a few patients who had been attempting to establish an appointment with a primary care physician unsuccessfully who received their needed testing through the quick clinic instead.
“It’s not really a PCP visit,” Kaufman said. “You’re not going to your primary care for like a flu or a strep. We’re coming in and making sure we test you and get you in and out quickly. It’s low cost. It doesn’t have to go through insurance.”
Work-Comp Management Services initially entered the Frankfort community as owner Julie Ott saw a need inside the community, especially revolving around the growing industrial park that was utilizing their services out of Lafayette for years prior to the establishment of the clinic in Frankfort.
“The need was here for sure,” Kaufman said. “One of the industrial parks had been coming to us in Lafayette for a few years, so we wanted to make sure they were taken care of. With the closure of one of the clinics in town, or they stopped doing a lot of the drug screening and the follow-up injury care, we thought it was time to bring what we do in Lafayette for the last 20 to 25 years here to Frankfort.”
When the clinic expanded into the Frankfort area, Ott highlighted its unique business model where the staff hires new employees as they receive projects as they strive to address the client’s needs specifically rather than tasking existing employees with additional roles and responsibilities as new projects are established, which allows for existing employees to continue honing their craft.
Work-Comp Management Services has been a certified woman-owned business for over two decades and remains a small business, but Ott expressed that an expansion to include larger projects has always been in the cards for them at the clinic.
“The reason that’s important is that some corporations, depending on the contracts they have, are required to utilize small minority or woman-owned businesses, and we’ve been certified for over (28) years,” Ott said in a previous interview. “As a smaller but strong company, we have the flexibility to move quickly and meet needs in a more cost-effective and quality means.”
As Work-Comp Management Services gained its footing within the Frankfort community over the past two years, Ott has expressed that the team has felt welcome, and Ott expressed her passion for helping others and operating the businesses in a way where the passion and teamwork present at the clinic translates into the final product, and she guaranteed that the staff at the clinic share the same passions.
“I love this job. I love this business. It’s just something that’s very personal to all of us,” Ott said. “I have this team that if they don’t feel like they’ve done a good job or if a client is upset, it really bothers them, and they bend over backwards to fix it. This business is definitely a team of people. We have each other’s backs, and we have our clients’ backs. I am very lucky.”
For more information regargarding Work-Comp Management Services and its new addition of the quick clinic, visit workcompms.net, call 877-449-7473 or visit the clinic at 2002 W. County Rd. 0 N/S in Frankfort.