Revenue Management: Beyond The Basics
Effective revenue management is key to the growth and sustainability of any business. A winning revenue management strategy goes way beyond sales and marketing 101.
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Operational Efficiency: Focus on Multi-tasking and Productivity Standards
Operational efficiency is essential to minimize redundancy and waste in any business and occupational health is no exception. However, attaining operational efficiency in occupational health takes customized strategies to address the industry’s unique problems and goals.
Biometric Screening: Workplace Health Management Starts Here
Biometric screening, a key component of an overall employee health management strategy, is growing in popularity. A recent Towers Watson National Business Group on Health Employer Survey revealed that 43 percent of employers provide incentives to encourage employee participation in biometric screening, and 30 percent offer incentives for workers to engage in healthy lifestyle activities in the workplace.
Health System Representatives Reflecton Hurricane Sandy Lessons
Hurricane Sandy threatened the lives and livelihoods of millions of residents in the New Jersey-New York-Connecticut corridor in October. Hospitals, clinics, and providers of occupational health services were both victims of and responders to the crisis. With two main hospitals down in Manhattan and others in the region hobbled by overcrowding and compromised infrastructure, occupational health professionals and their colleagues rallied to help employers and their employees locate resources they needed to remain safe and on the job. To learn more about preparedness and response in the wake of Sandy, VISIONS spoke with representatives from three leading health systems:
Timing It Right to Make a Lasting Contribution
Occupational health professionals have a significant opportunity to contribute to the nation’s health, says Emily Friedman, an independent health policy and ethics analyst. However, it will require perseverance.
Reinvigorated Board to Hit the Ground Running
The NAOHP Board Has Added Four New Members
Deborah Borisjuk has been appointed to represent the Northeast region (New England, NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, WV). Ms. Borisjuk is the Program Manager, Yale-New Haven Hospital Urgent Care and Worker Health Solutions. She joined the YNHH Ambulatory Services team in September 2010 to develop and operationalize the hospital’s first retail Occupational Medicine Program, Worker Health Solutions, a blended-model clinic. From 1996 to September 2010, she was the Administrative Director of Saint Raphael’s Occupational Health Plus, a three-site, occupational medicine model program, and its Outpatient Rehabilitation Program. Additionally, from 1988 to 1996, Ms. Borisjuk planned, developed and operated an Industrial Rehabilitation and Work Hardening Program at Temple Physical Therapy in New Haven, CT. Her term will expire Dec. 31, 2015.
Future of Occupational Health: Where Do We Go From Here?
In a half-day session at RYAN Associates’ 26th annual national conference, leaders in the field spoke about the future of occupational health as a business, a profession, and a medical practice.
RYAN Associates’ 2014 Practical Training Opportunities
RYAN Associates is offering a series of pragmatic educational programs for NAOHP members looking for convenient access to training in specific areas.
Selling Wellness: Strategic Planning is the Way
Businesses face their greatest threats from internal factors, according to Pamela Johnson, a wellness supervisor at Northern Indiana’s WorkingWell occupational health network. Obese, stressed, sedentary, disengaged, and chronically ill employees impact a company’s prosperity. But evolving healthcare laws, the trend toward preventative medicine, and the plethora of available options pose a challenge for decision-makers who want to address employee health issues. This is where smart marketing can make your wellness program a key part of an employer’s health management strategy.
ACOEM Pushes Prevention Wisdom on a Congress Looking for Quick Savings
In addition to its role as an educator, advocate, and disseminator of best practice guidelines, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) actively engages in influencing policy decisions related to worker wellness, prevention, and safety. Since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, ACOEM has been taking every opportunity to demonstrate to lawmakers the connection between a healthy workforce and a healthy economy, workplace wellness programs and chronic disease management, and between prevention services and cost savings. According to ACOEM’s chief lobbyist Pat O’Connor, it has not been a walk in the park.