Overview
Occupational and Environmental Medical Services for Businesses
Day Kimball Healthcare’s Occupational Health Department offers integrated services for employers throughout Northeast Connecticut. Educational, wellness, and safety programs are coordinated with our business partners to prevent injuries in the workplace. Should the need arise, our services provide treatment of workplace injuries and illnesses in order to optimize the safe and timely return to work. Engaging with our services helps businesses control healthcare and business costs due to decreased time away from work for injured employees, which minimizes worker replacement and retraining costs, and helps control insurance premiums.
Our full program of preventive health programs and services for our business partners include:
- Compliance with Regulations (medical surveillance examinations)
- DOT, Public Service, Fire and Police Examinations
- Drug and Alcohol Testing
- DOT certified collections
- Medical Review Officer services
- Hazmat Surveillance
- Immunization Services
- Interact with Case Management and Workers Compensation Insurers
- Light Duty Programs
- Maintain Secure Employee Medical Records
- Physical Examinations (post offer/ pre-placement, fitness for duty, post-operative, return to work)
- Respirator Compliance Examinations
- Sleep Disorder Evaluations
- Spirometry Testing (NIOSH Certified Staff)
- Vision Screening
- Wellness Programs
- Worksite Visits and Evaluations
- Educational and wellness programs
- Ergonomic evaluations/ Functional capacity/ Body Mechanics
- Exposure evaluations
Industries and Occupations Served
- Trucking Companies
- OSHA Regulated Companies
- Manufacturers
- Nursing Homes
- Supermarkets
- Retail Stores
- Waste Management Companies
- Shipping Companies
- Fire and Police Departments
- Public Service Departments
- Heavy and Light Industry
- Agricultural/ Landscapers
Helping Businesses Keep Workers Safe
More than a Medical Provider – a Partner
- Injury prevention programs
- Assistance with developing new policies for a safer and healthier environment
- Prompt evaluation of non life threatening work related injuries/illnesses
- Work Status Summaries provided to employer after each patient visit
- Case management (Workers Compensation and disability) including recommendations regarding limited duty
- Secure recording and maintenance of medical records
- Psychological referral services
- Improved workplace compliance of regulations
Work-Related Injury and Illness Care
- Workers Compensation injury and illness care
- Blood draw, laboratory and diagnostic imaging services
- Physical medicine services (Physical and Occupational Therapy)
- Referral to the Day Kimball Hospital Sleep Disorder Center, accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine
- Return to work, even if modified duty
We offer timely and convenient evaluation and treatment of non life-threatening workplace injuries and illnesses for workers. In case of injuries, workers should proceed to either:
Day Kimball Medical Group Walk-In Center at Day Kimball Healthcare Center-Plainfield, 12 Lathrop Road, Plainfield, CT (860) 457-9150
Day Kimball Hospital, 320 Pomfret Street, Putnam, CT (860) 928-6541
Worker is referred back to the Occupational Health office the next business day for continued care and follow up.
Physician:
Richard Brody, MD, Medical Director
Occupational, Environmental and Employee Health Services
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