Small employers deserve more

It’s no secret, small employers have long been underserved by innovative healthcare benefits vendors. That’s not because small businesses haven’t tried to get these benefits for their employees, and it’s not even because the vendors don’t want to serve them. Oftentimes, benefit providers, like Vida Health, simply don’t have the resources to tailor their selling and onboarding processes to the unique needs small employers have, on top of the Fortune 1,000 companies they serve.?

As a small employer ourselves, we’ve been going through our own struggles to find best-in-class benefits for our own employees. After being presented with limited options and poor outcomes, we realized that this is exactly the struggle small employers are facing. We? decided that enough was enough: it was time to expand our best-in-class solutions to smaller employers everywhere. In early March we launched Vida for Small Business, our new comprehensive virtual care solution that gives smaller organizations the same access to best-in-class integrated physical and mental care from Vida that larger employers have.

While the official offering is new, we’ve actually been providing life-changing outcomes to a select number of small employers for years.?

“As an employer with just over 100 lives, we really struggled to find a virtual solution that would provide the features we were looking for at a cost that fit our budget,” said Cheryl Engel, Senior Director of Human Resources for the Girl Scouts of Western Ohio. “When we discovered Vida back in 2020 they worked hard to make the program work for us. Now, nearly two years into our partnership, we still feel valued as a customer and it’s been great for our employees.”?

“As the HR team of a small healthcare organization, we’re always looking for meaningful benefits to engage our staff while also fitting within our budget,” said Mark Boehrer, Director Of Human Resources for Vida client Long Island Select Healthcare. “Vida has been a terrific partner and has helped our staff in so many ways.''

Anyone who has worked at a startup or small business knows that benefits make a big difference in helping employees thrive through the growing pains of building a strong company. If you want to provide the best virtual comprehensive care for both body and mind to your employees —no matter how few you may have — let me know. I’d love to chat with you about what makes Vida different and how we could help your workforce achieve better outcomes.?