Best Places to Work: Healthy Connections

Healthy Connections Inc., which has been providing high-demand medical and dental programs across Arkansas since 1998, keeps employee happiness at the core of its growth.

Healthy Connections, with offices in Polk, Montgomery, Hot Springs and Garland counties, offers a stellar health care plan, covering 100 percent of employee’s medical and dental insurance. In addition, the company offer an employee discount for all medical and dental services at their clinics.

The company also offers employees a flexible, four-day work week, as well as paid holidays, and inclement weather benefit, a wellness benefit package and employee discount for services.

Healthy Connections provides stand-up desks to any employee at request. Employees have access to an ergonomic mouse and keyboard. A community room can be used by employees during lunch for a workout program.

Healthy Connections has an employee-led “Insanity” and “Circuit Fit” exercise program on-site. Healthy Connections has a designated walking trail with multiple outdoor exercise stations for patients and employees to use. Employees receive company-wide text reminders about health alerts, recipe sharing and more.

To help employees de-stress, Healthy Connections’ in-house comedian gives the weekly and monthly announcements.

Contests are held during the workday, such as Halloween contest, Ugly holiday sweater contest and themed dress-up weeks. Team-building activities and games such as human hungry hippo, lip sync contests and minute to win it games help the employees get to know one another.

All Healthy Connections employees are eligible for a profit-sharing bonus at the end of each year. Part-time and new employees are pro-rated based on their time worked within the year. All employees receive equal bonus pay regardless of position.