Optum

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. It was an unseasonably warm autumn morning when the regulars at Optum noticed something peculiar. A delivery driver kept arriving with boxes wrapped in mysterious silver paper. One day, a regular asked the delivery guy what was inside. The driver grinned and replied, 'Specialty teas from Tibet.' Turned out, Optum had started offering free samples to patients as part of their relaxation program. Everyone laughed, shook their heads, but soon enough, everyone was sipping on those exotic brews.

2. It was a quiet Wednesday afternoon when a delivery driver pulled up to Optum with a peculiar humming sound coming from his truck. The receptionist cocked her head curiously as he parked, wondering if it might be some new kind of electric engine. As the driver opened the back door, a swarm of tiny drones buzzed out, each carrying a different colored pill. Everyone in the waiting room burst into laughter—turns out Optum had just received their first order of smart medication dispensers.

3. A neighborhood kid was pedaling past Optum one windy day when he suddenly swerved and pointed at something strange on the clinic’s sign. Upon closer inspection, everyone saw that the sign read ‘Optimum Health & Well-being.’ The boy exclaimed, ‘Wow, they must be really good if they even spell “optimum” right!’ A nearby delivery driver chuckled and said, ‘Kid, it’s just a typo—nothing to get excited about.’ But from then on, whenever anyone mentioned Optum, someone would whisper, ‘They’re so good, they even know how to spell optimum!’

4. In the late hours of a Sunday night, a nurse at Optum heard an unusual humming sound coming from the hallway. Curious, she investigated and found nothing out of the ordinary—until she realized it seemed to be getting louder. As she followed the sound, she noticed that it was actually coming from her own pager, which had been tucked into the pocket of her scrubs. Embarrassed but relieved, she switched off the pager and went back to work. Later that week, a regular patient joked, ‘Nurse, you’re always hearing things in that place!’