Occupational Health

At Ephraim McDowell Occupational Health, we partner with the local business community to improve the health and wellness of employees. As a result, healthcare costs decrease. Our program offers comprehensive services that focus on the health, wellness, injury prevention, and disease management for employers, employees, and their families. Services may be purchased individually or as a complete health and wellness package. For more information, please call (859) 239-3484. 

By participating in our program, your company will benefit from healthier employees. As a result, employees will be more productive and satisfied. In addition, they will have an increased presence on the job. For your company, that translates to a consistent workforce. Plus, your healthcare costs decline.

Services

We can provide services to your business through our Danville office. In addition, we can come on-site to your location. Plus, diagnostic services are available at multiple locations. As a result, services are convenient for you and your employees.

Occupational Health services offered on the basement level of our 101 Daniel Drive, Danville location are available by appointment Monday – Friday from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Call (859) 239-3484 to schedule.

Services include:

• Baseline/Pre-employment Physicals: DOT, CDL and non-DOT physicals are performed by a licensed healthcare provider who understands the demands of work and industry.
• Audiometric Testing: This on-site test collects and validates all demographic and exposure data to ensure OSHA compliance. Testing provides regularly-scheduled results compared to baseline data with onscreen audiogram graphs updated in real time.
• Vision Screening: We provide Snellen Chart vision screening as part of pre-employment physicals as requested.
• Immunizations: Immunizations are available to help protect employees from common illnesses including Tetanus (Tdap), Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, and MMR. At your request we can provide employees with annual flu vaccine clinics or other annual immunization needs.
• Pulmonary Function Testing: This test can help identify when lung function is beginning to decline. As a result, this can be addressed with treatment or work modification when done at baseline and then again for surveillance. Pulmonary function test results are interpreted by comparing the individual’s results with the results predicted for a person of the same gender, age, height and race (all demographic factors that may be associated with differences in lung performance).
• Post-offer Employment Testing: Our occupational therapist is trained to provide post-offer employment testing. Thus, this ensures that potential new employees are able to perform the physical demands of the essential job functions of the position for which they have applied.

Services at Your Location

• Provider Visit: Schedule our licensed healthcare provider to be on-site for a number of designated hours per week or month to meet your needs.
• On-site Registered Nurse Access: Schedule an on-site nurse to be a resource to your employees. Also, we can treat both work-related and non-work-related injuries and illnesses. In addition, the nurse can support your safety program through education, workers’ compensation case management by following up directly with a physician to minimize lost work days, FMLA or disability claims administration and as a health coach.
• On-site Injury Prevention: A professional OT/OTA/PT/PTA/ATC will focus on injury prevention. As a result, employees are engaged before injury occurs. This will limit recordable injuries, lost work time, and/or workers’ compensation claims. Call (859) 239-3484 to schedule any of the following services with our occupational therapist/early intervention team.
  • Job Coaching: We will work alongside your employee, providing education on improved body mechanics, lifting mechanics, work flow, job modification and compensatory strategies to complete work tasks and decrease pain and risk of musculoskeletal injury.
  • Workstation Ergonomics: We can assess your employees’ office and workstation ergonomics to decrease risk of musculoskeletal disorders. Included are recommendations for workstation design and equipment changes, and stretching that may be beneficial.
  • Job Demands Analysis is a detailed ergonomic assessment and job safety analysis of a work area, breaking down each job into tasks with recommendations for changes to decrease risk of musculoskeletal injury or for post-injury.
  • Job Description Writing incorporates the physical demands of the essential functions of the job that includes walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, coordination, sitting, standing and more.
  • Pre-shift Exercise Programs are designed for employees to refer to and use per company policy and/or as needed for injury prevention.
  • On-site Treatment per OSHA First Aid guidelines to reduce recordable injuries, keep employees safe at work, reduce lost work time and workers’ compensation claims, and reduce musculoskeletal injuries.

Diagnostic and Baseline Screening Services

• Drug Testing: We offer DOT, non-DOT, pre-employment, random and for cause urine drug screens. The drug screens can be performed at some of our primary care clinics outlined in our Locations section below.
• Occupational Health Immunizations: At your request we can provide your employees with immunizations such as flu, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Mumps, Measles and Rubella. Services provided are listed in our Locations section below.
• Other Lab and Diagnostic Services: These include blood and breath alcohol testing, titers, industrial lead testing, TB testing, and general labs including CBC, Cpan, TSH, Lipid and urinalysis. In addition, X-ray services for baseline and surveillance are available at select locations.

Other Services

• Education Classes
  • On-site Lunch & Learn Program designed by our dietitian or one of our fitness professionals can be provided to improve the health and wellness of your employees.
  • CPR, First Aid, Bloodborne Pathogens and AED Training and Certification classes can be scheduled to be taught at your facility to your safety team or other designated staff.
• Wellness Services: One of the most important advantages we can offer is personalized attention to your employees. As a result of being in the same community, we can respond to your requests and needs immediately. This includes a Health Risk Assessment and Wellness Screen and intervention with a wellness coach. In addition, we offer individualized health consultation with a registered nurse. As a result, we can determine health risks and identify health problems.
• McDowell Wellness Center: Located at 1107 Ben Ali Drive in Danville, our full-service gym can help your employees meet their health and wellness goals. We offer corporate rates to our business community. That is an attractive and cost-effective employee benefit. We work to help motivate your employees by improving their flexibility, strength, and endurance. As a result, it lowers their negative health factors such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol. In addition, we can monitor how often employees are working out at our facility through a key tag that members scan upon arriving for their exercise program.

Meet Our Staff

Debbie Edelen, APRN obtained her bachelor’s degree in nursing at Eastern Kentucky University in 1985 and earned her master’s degree in nursing in 2000. She is board-certified in family practice. She has provided care to patients in primary care, walk-in acute care and pediatrics for 22 years.

Melissa Vaughn, RN has 24 years of experience in infection control, case management, ICU, Cardiac Rehabilitation and Occupational Health. She is certified by the Council for Accreditation in Occupational Hearing Conservation (CAOHC), case management (CCM), DOT urine specimen collection and CPR.

Tonya Sutton, OTR/L, CEAS, HEAS has 20 years of experience as an occupational therapist across many areas of practice including outpatient occupational therapy and work and industry. She earned her certification as an Ergonomic Assessment Specialist from the Back School of Atlanta in 2006 and certification in healthcare ergonomics in 2022.

Locations We Offer Occupational Services