Customer Case Study

MileOne Automotive Group

About MileOne

Industry: Automotive Retail and Service

Employees: 3,800

Started partnership with BHS: 2019

Geography: Mid-Atlantic Region

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Benefit: High-Touch Service Delivery

MileOne’s leadership also recognized that the quality of their chosen partner’s service delivery would be paramount. In an environment where it’s estimated that 21% of U.S. adults have a diagnosable mental health issue* yet very few seek the help they need, it is critical to ensure everyone has an outstanding, low-friction care experience the very first time they reach out. Many low-touch EAP solutions in the marketplace lead with digital apps that promise better accessibility, but motivation can quickly fizzle without a skilled and caring human guide. MileOne prized BHS’s technologysupported, but human-led approach to make sure their employees seeking help had the best chance of a successful outcome. to understand what our needs were, our employees’ needs, and be able to help build a program that made sense for us, and that was relevant to us.”

It’s those relationships that they’re building, those interactions that they’re having, that genuinely enhances their ability to work through whatever challenges they’re having.” Mossanen and her team also recognized the key aspect of care follow-up that most workplace mental health solutions lack. “Whomever they make that contact with, remains their care coordinator through the whole journey, of getting through whatever challenge they’ve called about,” she explains. The severity and risk involved with each participant BHS helps is unique, as is their care pathway, but the personal benefits MileOne employees have reported after reaching out for assistance are clear:

Improving my communication skills
44%
Improving my confidence
33%
Improving my outlook on life
56%
Improving my physical health
11%
Improving my relationship at home
33%

“We would probably never consider a cheaper, digital-led, type of support,” explains Mossanen. “It would completely negate the benefits that they are reaping from being able to have the human interaction they have with BHS."

Benefit: Timely Crisis Response

As the mental health needs of its workforce arise, high-quality care connection is an everyday expectation that MileOne can
confidently leave in BHS’s hands. But they also found in BHS a reliable partner for unforeseen needs. MileOne’s HR team has called upon BHS to provide strategic consultation and on-site crisis support for several traumatic workplace events.

Mossanen recalls a particularly impactful set of events that occurred in the same year. Following the social trauma precipitated by the murder of George Floyd in 2020, one location needed expert help navigating very thorny workplace issues. “There was one situation when some social unrest occurred very close to one of our locations, which led to high tensions that brought about conflict and differences in opinions among some employees.” Mossanen explains. “BHS’s experts provided support to our people to mediate and work through those issues and those challenges that we were facing. And they were amazing. They helped bring perspective and helped our people discuss and work through their differences.”

Later that year, Mossanen explains “We had a true crisis situation in one of our locations, where a customer attempted to take their own life. One of our employees had to save the customer’s life. And it had a severe impact on his mental well-being and those around him. We called BHS immediately.

Within hours, they provided us the clinician, and the support we needed, to be able to serve our people, to be able to process the experience they just had, and to be able to work through that.”

Benefit: Better Individual And Organizational Results

If you ask MileOne’s leadership, they will be very clear that their BHS partnership is about one thing and one thing only: caring for the needs of their employees. But that care naturally produces benefits to the overall organization – outcomes that are in BHS’s DNA to produce and communicate to every customer. Since BHS measures workplace outcomes with respect to several areas of impact such as retention of at-risk employees, improvements in absenteeism and presenteeism, and the value provided of services delivered.

MileOne can be confident that it has experienced a 123% inception-to-date return on its investment in its BHS partnership.

A major reason why it has realized such a high ROI is that its people use the program. In an environment where the typical lowtouch EAP results in 1-3% true program utilization, nearly 12% of MileOne’s employees have received help from a human being at BHS. This has yielded measurable outcomes that have a continuing positive impact to the organization:

Improving my attendance at work
29%
Improving my engagement at work
57%
Improving my job satisfaction
43%
Improving my loyalty to my employer
29%
Improving my productivity at work
86%
Improving my relationship with my supervisor
29%
Improving my relationship with my co-workers
43%

MileOne also relies on BHS for “supervisory referrals” – a tool for managers to use when behavioral or productivity issues of an employee may be disruptive to themselves or others in the workplace. The supervisory referral process allows managers to refer such employees to BHS to receive assistance to address the root cause of the problem, with their further employment conditional on their cooperation with the process. To date, 80% of MileOne’s supervisory referrals were fully compliant with their recommended care pathways, helping not only improve their own lives, but also to retain good employees in their roles.

MileOne leadership credits its provision of BHS services to a noticeable impact on the company’s retention overall. “Our employee morale has improved because our folks feel like we care about them,” Monassen says. “We’re providing them these resources and support, to be able to help them with challenging situations. So there’s definitely a direct correlation with morale and retention.”

Overall, the MileOne BHS partnership has created a virtuous circle to connect more people with better care.
When an organization’s HR team understands the importance of mental health services for its employees and chooses a high-touch provider, they foster a culture of care and help-seeking. In turn, when the employee has an outstanding human-led experience and receives the care they need, they help that HR team spread the word, further reducing stigma and encouraging others to come out of the shadows to seek help.

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