Excerpt: Employers find that in addition to saving money, the clinics also help promote recruitment and retention. A growing number of companies, struggling to combat the escalating cost of health care, have reinvented the industrial clinics of decades ago. In place of nurses patching up on-the-job injuries, they're opening state-of-the art, fully staffed medical centers on-site or near-site. The clinics provide services from pharmacies and primary care to chronic disease management.