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Workers' compensation claims were painfully high when Bonnie Johnson took over as director of employee health at Citrus Valley Health Partners in West Covina, CA, a system of three acute-care hospitals, a hospice facility, and about 3,200 employees that is 25 miles east of Los Angeles.
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How protective is the respirator that you provide your employees?
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The Joint Commission has issued a major new document on the difficult issue of assessing hand hygiene compliance by health care workers. We'll put the bottom line at the top: there are many approaches to solve the Achilles "hand" of infection prevention and none of them is a panacea.
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When new staff join the case management team at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, they are trained by a team leader who works with them side by side and mentors them as they begin their new duties.
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In addition to providing case management and disease management programs to help members manage their chronic conditions, CIGNA Health Care has developed a Lifestyle Management Program that helps people at risk for a chronic disease avoid developing the condition.
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A risk manager at your company asks you to report what an injured employee on workers' compensation tells you about their physical activities, because this employee is suspected of malingering. What will your answer be?
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Take these steps if you are asked to provide information that might be used in assessing the need for starting or continuing surveillance of an employee:
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Guideline-based care provided by occupational physicians is a cost-effective way to treat workers with common mental health problems, according to new research.
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At Health Plan of Michigan, every employee is trained on the importance of HEDIS measures, and the health plan offers incentives to employees, physicians, and patients based on performance on the quality improvement measures.
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When a UPS manager had an onsite blood pressure screening, his blood pressure was so high that an occupational health nurse took him to the hospital immediately. He was diagnosed with a heart attack, and he survived with minimal damage because he was treated so quickly.
