On-Site Occupational Health and Rehabilitation: A Model for the Manufacturing and Service Industries

by DeHart; Jane Pomper

• ISBN13: 9780824789862
• ISBN10: 0824789865
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-20
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

On-Site Occupational Health and Rehabilitation: A Model for the Manufacturing and Service Industries describes how to establish an on-site occupational health program, from a sample of a request for proposal response, cost-savings reports, and clinical protocols, evaluations, and treatments to corporate awareness of workers' compensation, lost work-time situations, and applications for cost-effective solutions. Contains procedures and guidelines developed by the author for prestigious firms such as Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co., Bank One Corp., The Detroit Newspapers, J&L Specialty Steel Inc., Henry Ford Health System, and PepsiCo, Inc.! Exploring diagnostic mix, clinic size, on-site industrial rehabilitation program benefits, prevention medicine, and wellness and fitness strategies, On-Site Occupational Health and Rehabilitation: A Model for the Manufacturing and Service Industries illustrates how individual corporate environments can adapt to form a patient-centered, high-trust, cooperative, and informed workplace discusses the interrelationship between clinical evaluation and treatment, ADA compliance, work-site ergonomics, on-site job analysis, and placement coordination highlights crucial factors that will determine the success of an on-site medical rehabilitation program offers a prescription for a healthy, safe work environment and more! Including concise at-a-glance summaries of all rehabilitation and health services, On-Site Occupational Health and Rehabilitation: A Model for the Manufacturing and Service Industries is an invaluable resource for all occupational safety and health, occupational and environmental, primary care, family practice, and emergency room physicians; neurologists, physiatrists, and internists; physical and occupational therapists and kinesiotherapists; athletic trainers; exercise physiologists, ergonomists, and applied biomechanists; and upper-level undergraduate, graduate, and medical school students in these disciplines.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Acknowledgments	vii
The Mission and Vision of the On-Site Team	1	(44)
Introduction	1	(4)
Access Equals Location	5	(12)
Case Evaluation	17	(1)
Case Coordination	17	(1)
Case Review---Utilization Review/Quality Management	17	(7)
Staffing	24	(4)
Sample of an Automobile Company's Request for Plant On-Site Occupational Medical Physician Services	28	(11)
Occupational Health Classification Description	39	(3)
Description of Physician Assistant Duties	42	(2)
Duties of Physician in Charge of a Physician Assistant	44	(1)
The Benefits of the On-Site Occupational Health and Rehabilitation Model to the Whole Organization: Management, Employee/Patient, and Union	45	(30)
Program Attributes and Services Provided	46	(3)
Care of Illness and Injury-Occupational and Nonoccupational	49	(3)
Medical Examinations: Postoffer Preemployment, Fitness, Return-to-Work; Disability, Retirement; and Termination	52	(3)
Medical Monitoring and Testing Required by Law or Employer/Company Policy and/or Occupational Exposures	55	(1)
Medical Evaluation of Employees with Workers' Compensation Claims	56	(7)
Proof of Malpractice Insurance	63	(1)
Referral Process	64	(1)
Occupational Medicine Case Management Functions	65	(2)
Position Description for Occupational Medicine Physician	67	(3)
Department of Occupational Health Industrial Rehabilitation Program	70	(5)
Disability Costs to Private and Public Programs	75	(18)
Reports: Loss Control and Cost Savings	76	(13)
Claims and Statutes	89	(2)
Agenda: Health, Safety, Ergonomics, and Prevention of Upper Extremity/Hand and Back Injury	91	(2)
Health Care Reform: Quality, Price, Service, and Outcome	93	(32)
Sample of Grand Rounds Meeting, Agenda, and Cases Discussed	104	(3)
Inservice/Staff Meeting Minutes	107	(2)
Sample Automotive Industry On-Site Rehabilitation Patient satisfaction Questionnaire	109	(8)
On-Site Industrial Rehabilitation Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire	117	(2)
Customer Satisfaction Questionnaire: Department of Occupational Health	119	(2)
Customer Feedback Process Form	121	(4)
How the Occupational Health and Rehabilitation Pie Is Divided	125	(66)
Rehabilitation On-Site Staffing Policy	125	(8)
Physical Environment	133	(6)
Occupational Therapy--On-Site Job Assessment and Job Site Coaching	139	(3)
Industrial Rehabilitation Occupational Therapy: Initial Evaluation	142	(4)
Industrial Rehabilitation Job Task Analysis	146	(5)
Occupational Therapy Work Capacity: Initial Evaluation	151	(5)
On-Site Occupational Therapy Job Analysis	156	(4)
Occupational Therapy On-Site Job Assessment: Job Site Coaching and Treatment	160	(6)
Return to Work Center Job Analysis	166	(4)
Conclusion	170	(2)
Job Descriptions	172	(8)
Policies and Procedures and Therapy Guidelines	180	(6)
Employee Correspondence on the Temporary Modified Work Process	186	(2)
On-Site Rehabilitation Equipment List	188	(3)
Americans with Disabilities Act: Compliance, Worksite Ergonomics, On-Site Job Analysis, and Preplacement Coordination-How They Interrelate	191	(14)
Videotaped Ergonomic Job Analysis Report	197	(8)
Skeletal and Soft-Tissue Injuries and Cumulative Trauma Treatment	205	(30)
On-Site Industrial Rehabilitation Physical Therapy: Initial Evaluation	209	(3)
On-Site Industrial Rehabilitation Occupational Therapy--Evaluation	212	(9)
Splint Evaluation	221	(2)
Outline of Back Injury Prevention Workshop	223	(1)
Hand Evaluation Protocol	223	(7)
On-Site Industrial Rehabilitation	230	(5)
The Prescription for a Healthy Workforce: The Synergistic Whole, or How It All Comes Together	235	(20)
Return to Work Statistics for Back Cases at an Assembly Plant	244	(7)
On-Site Industrial Rehabilitation: 12-Month Study of Percent Body Fat Loss Through Use of the Fitness Center	251	(1)
Net Revenue Growth vs. 1989: Direct Company Contracts	252	(1)
Developed System Procedures to Support the ISO-9000 Quality Manual w	253	(2)
References	255	(2)
Suggested Readings	257	(2)
Index	259