Location: Great Falls, Mont.
Type of company: Hospital/health system
Meet the organization: This nonprofit, rural system employs 2,800 people who care for 250,000 patients across a 15-county region that's bigger in area than Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont combined. The system has gone 11 years without layoffs (distributing raises instead), and more than 200 employees have been with the system for 25 years or more. Benefis CEO John Goodnow hosts a monthly CEO Luncheon, to which he invites a randomly chosen group of employees to chime in on their workdays.
Added benefits: The system offers a 403(b) pension plan that includes a 5 to 7 percent contribution match, two employee fitness centers and lunchtime workouts, on-site chair massages and discounts at several nearby businesses.
