JPMorgan Chase Partners on Advanced Primary Care Centers in Ohio

As part of a collaboration with Vera Whole Health (Vera) and Central Ohio Primary Care (COPC), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) has launched three new on-site advanced primary care centers across the company’s Columbus, Ohio, offices.

The three centers will provide comprehensive in-person and virtual health and wellness services for more than 20,000 JPMorgan Chase employees. In addition, Vera and COPC will provide the same advanced primary care services at two near-site care centers to serve employees and the more than 15,000 spouses/domestic partners and children enrolled in JPMorgan Chase’s benefit plan.

The launch of the new on-site and near-site care centers is part of the collaboration between the company’s benefits team and Morgan Health, a new business unit within the firm focused on improving the quality, affordability and equity of employer-sponsored healthcare. Both JPMorgan Chase’s Benefits team and Morgan Health identify and develop new approaches to enhancing employees’ health benefits, including new partnerships with providers, health systems and other health companies.

Vera and COPC will manage and staff the on-site and near-site care centers. Vera is one of four companies that has received financial and strategic support from Morgan Health and JPMorgan Chase as part of a broader effort to rapidly scale and expand accountable care programs across the employer-sponsored market. Vera, part of the larger apree health brand, has an advanced primary care model that takes a whole person approach to health, incorporating coaching, behavioral health specialists, and wellness alongside a primary care physician to form an integrated care team.

COPC is one of the largest independent physician-owned primary groups in Ohio and the U.S. and currently serves many Columbus-based JPMorgan Chase employees and their families.

Over the coming months, additional digital tools and health services will be available to employees as part of Vera and COPC’s advanced primary care approach.

“The partnership with Vera and COPC is deeply rooted in our vision and mission to provide a better health care experience for our employees, and in turn, to provide a realistic path forward for other employers to implement these same value-based programs,” said Dan Mendelson, CEO of Morgan Health, in a statement. “By establishing provider partnerships based on improving health outcomes for employees, we can make in-roads across communities and markets to provide higher quality, more affordable and equitable care to JPMorgan Chase employees and more than 150 million Americans who depend on employer-sponsored coverage.”