Ohio Health Benefits takes care of its team members: Top Workplaces 2025

TALLMADGE, Ohio -- Ohio Health Benefits believes that if the company takes care of their team members, those team members will take even better care of the clients.

The Tallmadge-based company is a privately owned insurance consultant and brokerage that aims to make selecting healthcare insurance an easy and painless process. To do that, the firm aims to offer the best selection of products and follow it up with exceptional service.

The company is ranked second this year among small companies in its first appearance on cleveland.com’s Top Workplaces list.

For the 2025 Top Workplaces list, cleveland.com and the Plain Dealer compiled more than 180 stand-out Northeast Ohio employers based on employee surveys. Find the full list and stories on the top three winners in each of four categories at cleveland.com/top-workplaces.

Sara Wagner, training specialist and front office lead, and Sarah Fairhurst, vice president and operations manager call Ohio Health Benefits a great company, with great people who get great results.

“From the leadership perspective, we really do everything we can to make this a great place to work,” Fairhurst said. “I really believe that having happy employees creates happier results for our clients. Having employees that are engaged in the company make it an overall better experience on the client side as well. We’re 100% service-focus with a lot of client interaction, so a lot of patience is needed.”

Wagner said the business is all about integrity.

“That starts at the top and goes in all directions so not only do we have integrity with one another we have integrity with our clients, with the carriers that we work with and are always looking to do the best thing for the people that we work with,” Wagner said. “Whether that’s profitable in the moment or not to our company, so that makes it really easy to do the right thing and doing the right thing feels good.

The service piece sets the company’s 47 employees apart, Wagner said. “Our clients can call us anytime and we’ll get into the nitty gritty of the plans for them.”

And, they are just as pragmatic with their outreach efforts.

Ohio Health Benefits has a $5 fee for employees to don jeans on Fridays. That money is gathered and the company matches the total collected for a given quarter, and make donations to local charities.

Four charities are selected each quarter.

The company also recently implemented a day of service where employees are given a paid day off to volunteer at an organization of their choice.

“Our biggest focus is the service within our client base and community, and we do as much as we can community facing, too,” Fairhurst said.