Carilion Clinic offers domestic partner benefits
At the start of this year, Carilion Clinic began offering insurance benefits to the domestic partners of its gay employees.
The move by Carilion, the region’s largest private employer, is consistent with a national trend that began more than a decade ago but was slower to catch on in Southwest Virginia.
To read more about the plan, and how Carilion employee Kim Roe and her longtime partner Jeannie Mann are taking advantage of it, click here for the article that ran in today’s newspaper.
January 27, 2013 - 10:50 AM
This is a great move. I wonder when this will translate into benefits for heterosexual domestic partners. Or even universal health care (crazy, I know).
How many partners can you cover?
The plan states that the insured must be the “sole domestic partner” of the employee. So one, plus his or her children.
Good job, Carilion.
Wow!!! It took that long. And seems like domestic partner would mean either gay or straight. So sad that a large organization such as Carilion is that far behind.
Actually, Heather, the plan covers only same-sex domestic partners at this point. Carilion officials say they are considering expanding it to cover opposite-sex partners sometime in the future.
Considering the way the Carilion run RAC completely failed on this issue, glad to see them bringing some 20st century thought to their policies.