At RYAN Associates’ 25th Annual National Conference, three panelists who attended the first annual national conference in 1987 reflected on occupational health’s past, present, and future as a business enterprise and a clinical practice.
The following three onsite delivery models were presented at RYAN Associates’ seminar on Profiting from Product Line Diversity and will be featured during a summer webinar series.
The Obama Administration’s newly released National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy is a comprehensive plan intended to help increase the number of Americans who are healthy at every stage of life.
L.L. Bean, the Maine-based company known for its environmental advocacy, durable apparel, and outdoor equipment, also has developed a reputation as a progressive company with regard to the way it manages the health and wellbeing of its workforce.
The absence of an implied physician-patient relationship has been “the central ethical issue in occupational medicine for the past 100 years,” according to Mark Rothstein, J.D., a leading authority on health policy and employment law.
In a symbolic move, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) plans to change the name of its WorkLife division to Total Worker Health to better reflect the unit’s objectives, reports L. Casey Chosewood, M.D., WorkLife senior medical officer.
Presenteeism is a concept many in the field of occupational health consider to be significant but difficult to quantify – somewhat akin to catching lightning in a bottle.
Robert L. Broghammer, M.D., M.B.A., M.P.H., of Allen Occupational Health in Waterloo Iowa and Jeffrey A. Westpheling, M.D., M.P.H., of St. Luke’s Work Well Clinic, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, are among those who do not favor the mixed-used model, as outlined in the following letters to RYAN Associates/NAOHP:
T. Warner Hudson III, M.D., was installed as the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine’s (ACOEM) president for 2011-2012 during the college’s 96th annual membership meeting in Washington, D.C.
The following is excerpted from a panel discussion held during RYAN Associates’ recent seminar on Profiting from Product Line Diversity: Integrating Urgent Care and Occupational Health Services.