November 21, 2009

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Best Places To Work 2007

We tallied the scores for 55 different 417-land companies and found 12 that earned points heads and tails above the rest. They are the Best Places to Work in 417-land, and what they have to offer might surprise you.

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Photo Edward Biamonte We thought we'd show everyone at Burton Creek so you could count and make sure they're in the right category.

Burton Creek Management Corporation

First place, 26 to 100 employees

294 points

Clinically Impressed

What you see when you walk into a medical clinic can tell a story. There are the things you know you will see, such as white coats and scrubs and miles of files. You’ll see a waiting room, with rows of chairs that occasionally hold a person or a discarded magazine set-aside by a patient whose page-flipping wait has ended. Those things tell the obvious story of what kind of business happens inside a medical clinic.

But if you happen to pay Burton Creek Rural Clinic (part of Burton Creek Management Corporation in West Plains) a visit on Valentine’s Day, and if you find yourself escorted to the employees-only back offices, you’ll see all those things and a conference table that’s packed to the gills with homemade, heart-adorned, glitter-sprinkled greeting cards. At this clinic, there’s an event for every holiday. Sometimes it’s a party. Sometimes it’s a pot luck lunch. Sometimes it’s a contest. Sometimes it’s everything at once. For Valentine’s Day, the entire crew at the clinic—doctors, nurses, staff—made Valentine’s Day cards and were challenged with a contest to see whose was the best and whose was the silliest.

Those kinds of activities clearly add to the camaraderie in the workplace, where employees even have an ongoing fund set up to help one another in times of need. “When I started working here, I was hit up two to three times per week to support people,” says Administrator Sonja Stauffer. “So we set up a fund to set aside money each pay period to help people. That comes out of the fact that the employees really care for each other. We’ve helped people through divorce, broken-down cars, house fires.”

When employees have been with the company for a long time, they are rewarded for their years of efforts. Dr. Robert Martin, MD, one of the owners and managing partner of the practice, tells of an employee who was rewarded for 20 years of service with a trip to Hawaii and for 30 years of service with an EZ-GO Workhorse cart. It’s no wonder employees stick around. The company has a competitive pay and benefits package and, according to Stauffer, one of the better pension plans in West Plains. And the company’s ability to have a strong wellness plan goes without saying. It’s a medical clinic after all. “I’ll be here 17 years in August, and it’s the atmosphere, the camaraderie, the feeling of family that keeps me here,” Dr. Martin says. “I just feel good about where I work.”

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