Occupations Health

[Sandy Sargent]

To tag onto my last email, our health services clinic is being asked to consider adding access to medical care for our employees. We currently case manage work-related injuries only in first aid cases. Once they need a higher level of care, they are referred to our contracted employee health program at the local hospital.

Does anyone else do this? What pitfalls are there in combining employee and student visits? They are also considering having preventative programming be out of our office by combining employee health with students.  Help......

Sandy Sargent BSN,RN,PHN

Director Health Services

Pacific Union College

[Andersen, Brenda]

For all these years, we have been able to keep work comp and employee health out of our clinic, partly because we did not have enough staff to see our own students who fund us!  We do assist with triaging and helping first aid cases but generally refer out work related injuries including student employment work comp.  It keeps things simpler, and then we don’t need to get involved in the work comp legal situations that can occur.  I was an occ health nurse for 10 yrs many moons ago, and with that experience, I think that is the best way to operate.  Good luck with this too!

 

Brenda

Brenda Andersen, RN, CNP

Associate Director

South Dakota State University

Student Health Clinic and Counseling Services

Brookings Family Planning Clinic

Wellness Center

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N. Campus Drive

Brookings, SD  57007

 

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[Sandy Sargent]

Yes, what your set up is at your university is what we are currently doing in ours. I agree that its the best way to go. Thanks for the affirmation on that. Did you have any thoughts about having the title 9 investigator as my  first line staff person in the office? Doesn't that seem to be a liability and conflict of interest? I'm a bit frustrated with my administration (again) that they expect me to take this employee on now that her position as employee wellness has been cut. Any thoughts?

Thanks

Sandy

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From: Andersen, Brenda <Brenda....@SDSTATE.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, September 3, 2017 8:59:45 AM
To: Sandy Sargent; nurse-d...@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Occupations Health

 

[Palmer, Sandra F]

We too send our workers comp employees to urgent care.  We do however see employees for acute illness and charge them a $15 copay at the time of service. We really don’t have that many, since most employees do have their own doctors off campus.

 

Sandy Palmer, RN

Director Wellness Center

3700 Willow Creek Rd.

Prescott, Az 86301

T928-777-6653

F928-777-3850

pal...@erau.edu