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How To Enroll

Follow these steps for a smooth, stress-free enrollment, both as a new hire (within 31 days of your hire date) and during Open Enrollment for 2027 benefits (Oct. 7-21, 2026).

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Automatic Enrollment

If you are eligible, you will be automatically enrolled as a new hire in the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), core disability and basic life insurance.

You’ll also be automatically enrolled in the retirement benefits program, if eligible.

  • Full-time employee (hired after Dec. 12, 2023): automatically enrolled in the Mandatory Savings Plan at 6.2%, as well as the Supplemental Savings Plan at 2%.
  • Part-time employee: automatically enrolled at 7.5% in the Mandatory Savings Plan.

 

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Need-To-Know Info

  • Open Enrollment for 2027 benefits starts Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026, and ends Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026 (at 11:59 p.m. Central time).
  • As a new hire, you must enroll in all benefits (other than the Supplemental Savings Plan) within 31 days of your hire date for coverage to begin when you become eligible.
  • If you do not complete your online benefits enrollment by the deadline as a new hire, you may not enroll for benefits until the next Open Enrollment of October each year (for benefits that will be effective on Jan. 1) of the following year unless you have a qualified life event during the curent year. Additionally, you will not be enrolled for coverage under any optional plan.
  • Review your options carefully. Once you enroll, you will not have the option to make changes until the next Open Enrollment in October of each year or when you have a qualified status change.
  • DART to work with the GoPass app and save with the DART Corporate Annual Pass Program discount. To receive the Parkland employee discount, you must use your Parkland email address and register as a Corporate Employee. Use these instructions to help you sign up. Check out the local and regional rates for 2026.

Easy Steps To Enroll Online

Enrolling for benefits is quick and easy with Parkland’s online enrollment system. From home and most work computers, you can enroll using the web-based Benefits and Pay on Workday, our Human Resources Information System.

Log on to Workday to enroll for the following benefits: medical, dental, vision, life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, disability buy-up and buy-down plans, legal, health savings account (HSA), flexible spending accounts (FSAs) and supplemental coverages through MetLife (critical illness insurance, group accident insurance and hospital indemnity).

Note: If you are enrolling from a non-Parkland device, you must register for remote access through Inprivata first. To register for remote access through Imprivata or for help with technical issues with the OTM Portal, contact the Technical Support Center at 214‑590‑5999.

  1. Log on to Workday at https://wd12.myworkday.com/parklandhospital/d/login.htmld.
  2. The system may automatically insert the password that you have set up for your Parkland login or you may need to enter it yourself.
  3. To enroll, go to your Workday homepage.
    • For Open Enrollment, click on the Awaiting Your Action card displaying the task Open Enrollment Change.
  4. Provide Parkland with a Social Security number for all covered dependents in the medical plan. You cannot enroll dependents in the medical plan without providing a Social Security number.
  5. After making all benefits elections, click Review and Sign to review a summary of your selections.
  6. Scroll to the bottom of the page, check the I Accept box to electronically sign the presented agreement statements, and then click Submit.
  7. Click the View Benefit Statement button to access a summary of the Submit Election Confirmation page.
  8. Click the Done button to return to the Workday homepage.

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During Open Enrollment, you may also sell PTO in Workday (Sell Time Off).
For help selling PTO, download these instructions

About Benefits and Pay in Workday

From Benefits and Pay, you can:

  • Review or modify your personal information.
  • View your Paid Time Off (PTO).
  • View your paycheck.
  • Review your current benefits.
  • Provide beneficiary/dependent information for your life and AD&D plans only. You name beneficiaries for the Supplemental Savings Plan and your mandatory savings program (Retirement Income Plan if a full-time employee on or before Dec. 12, 2023, and the Mandatory Savings Plan if hired after Dec. 12, 2023) at MillimanBenefits.com.
  • Submit a family status/life event change.
  • Enroll for benefits as a new hire and during Open Enrollment each year.

Naming a Beneficiary

In Benefits and Pay, you must go into each plan (basic life, supplemental life and AD&D insurance) to designate your beneficiary, even if you are naming the same beneficiary for all plans.

Enrolling for Other Benefits

Supplemental Savings Plan

Log on to MillimanBenefits.com or call the Milliman Benefits Service Center at 800-995-2608. You are eligible for this benefit upon your date of hire. Full-time employees hired on or after Jan. 1, 2022, are enrolled automatically.

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Pet Insurance

Before enrolling for pet insurance, learn about your two options through Beneplace: MetLife at 800-438-6388 / metlife.com/getpetquote or Nationwide at 877-738-7874 /
petinsurance.com/affiliates/parklandhospital_pr. 

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Required Documentation

As part of the dependent eligibility verification process for the medical, dental or vision plans, you will be required to submit documentation to prove your relationship to your dependents, including marriage certificates, birth certificates and tax returns. Be on the lookout — the Dependent Verification Administrator will send a request for dependent eligibility verification via email or to your home address currently on file at Parkland. Do not submit documentation until you receive a verification request.

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Making Changes During the Year

In accordance with federal law, you may change your benefit elections during the year only if you have a change in life or employment status. Examples of life events that will enable you to change your coverage include birth or adoption of a child, marriage, divorce or loss of coverage. Review your elections carefully to see if your choices will fit your situation throughout the year. Change requests for status change event elections must be made within 31 days following the event.

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Need Help?

Got questions about enrolling for your benefits? Click on Submit OTM Requests 24/7 from the home page of the OTM Service Portal, available 24/7 just like Parkland. You can also submit a request or view answers to your enrollment requests. The search bar on the portal can help you locate information.

If you don’t have access to a computer, you can call OTM Shared Services at 469-419-3000 (ext. 7-3000), Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.