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Blount Memorial Business Health offers free, initial assessment to East Tennessee employers

Blount Memorial Business Health in Maryville, Tennessee takes a long-term approach to health care, which can pay dividends to companies of all sizes for years to come. Following a free, initial assessment, the department’s occupational health experts can show any employer how investing in specific services today – such as on-site nursing, disease management and smoking cessation – can help build a healthier workforce, while lowering overall health care costs and worker compensation claims.

For more information or to schedule an initial consultation, call Blount Memorial Business Health at 865-977-5795.

On-Site Occupational Health Nurses:

Blount Memorial Business Health offers companies the option of having a full- or part-time occupational nurse on-site. By having a nurse on duty at the workplace, companies make it clear to employees that their health and security is a top priority.

On-site nurses typically have a baccalaureate degree in nursing, and experience in community health, ambulatory care, critical care, emergency nursing, disease management, environmental health and/or emergency preparedness and disaster planning.

Business Health on-site occupational health nurses provide specific health-related services requested by each client company. These can include:

• on-site nursing care, including on-the-job injury evaluations
• return-to-work follow-up care
• assistance completing workers' compensation and medical claims
• regular health assessments performed by observing employees at work
• health and safety education programs
• drug and alcohol testing
• compliance with OSHA regulations

Occupational Health Centers:

The two conveniently located Blount Memorial Occupational Health Centers – at the Springbook Corporate Center in Alcoa and at the Tellico West Industrial Park in Vonore – serve businesses both big and small.

Both state-of-the-art centers feature a board-certified occupational health physician specially trained in business and industry-related health issues. Available occupational health services include:

• pre-placement examinations
• on-the-job injury evaluations
• drug and alcohol testing
• ergonomic evaluations
• compliance with OSHA Regulations
• immediate treatment for short-term on-the-job illnesses and injuries
• assistance completing workers’ compensation and medical claims

For more information or to schedule an initial cost-free assessment, call the Blount Memorial Occupational Health Center nearest you:

Blount Memorial Occupational Health Center at Springbrook
200 Associates Blvd.
Alcoa, TN 37701
865-984-0100

Blount Memorial Occupational Health Center at Tellico West
110 Deer Crossing
Vonore, Tennessee 37885
423-884-1921

On-site Personal Care Clinics:

East Tennessee employers who partner with Blount Memorial Business Health can choose to establish an on-site personal care clinic at their facilities. The clinic, which is staffed by a nurse practitioner, offers employees immediate access to treatment for acute illness and injury. Employers also can opt to extend this benefit to employees’ dependents.

Conditions treated at the clinic do not have to be work-related. For example, employees and/or dependents could receive treatment for symptoms related to colds, flu, sore throats or stomach viruses. Receiving early, expert care can help reduce the duration and severity of symptoms, helping reduce absenteeism.

On-site nurse practitioners also can partner with an employee’s primary physicians to help effectively manage chronic diseases such as diabetes and asthma. This eliminates the need for multiple physician visits (lowering health care costs), and offers on-the-job support for employees who are trying to lose weight, reduce stress or lower their blood sugar.

The clinics also offer a prescription medication service featuring commonly dispensed medications and antibiotics.

On-Site Rehabilitation Services:

East Tennessee companies with a Blount Memorial Business Health on-site personal care clinic can opt to offer on-site rehabilitation services to their employees. An expert Blount Memorial physical therapist works part-time in the clinic providing initial assessments and limited physical therapy services.

If more extensive physical therapy treatment is required, the on-site therapist will refer the employee to an outpatient facility. In addition to treatment, the physical therapist can conduct a wide variety of on-site rehabilitation screenings including:

• pre-placement physicals
• functional capacity screenings
• cumulative trauma screenings
• functional capacity evaluation for return-to-work physicals

Having a physical therapist on-site helps limit lost work days, prevent work-related injuries and reduce worker compensation claims.

Health and Safety Programs and Consulting:

Blount Memorial Business Health provides specific health and safety programs, as well as individualized consulting services, to hundreds of companies in East Tennessee. Employers choose one or more options from a broad menu of services. This customized approach ensures that companies of any size can cost-effectively access the Business Health programs that will benefit them most.

Business Health program and consulting options include:

• American Red Cross CPR and first aid training
• assistance developing and writing policies and procedures for return to work, exposure control or the Tennessee Drug Free Workplace program
• audiograms and spirometry testing
• back health education
• blood pressure tracking
• cumulative trauma prevention
• exposure control training
• functional capacity screenings
• health screenings
• health and safety monitoring
• immunizations such as Hepatitis B and tuberculosis (TB) skin testing
• lead level screenings
• pre-placement physicals
• smoking cessation