On-Site Occupational Health and Rehabilitation: A Model for the Manufacturing and Service Industries (Books in Soils, Plants, and the Environment)

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 Industriesillustrates 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. 1. The Mission And Vision Of The On-site Team -- 2. The Benefits Of The On-site Occupational Health And Rehabilitation Model To The Whole Organization: Management, Employee/patient, And Union -- 3. Disability Costs To Private And Public Programs -- 4. Health Care Reform: Quality, Price, Service, And Outcome -- 5. How The Occupational Health And Rehabilitation Pie Is Divided -- 6. Americans With Disabilities Act: Compliance, Worksite Ergonomics, On-site Job Analysis, And Preplacement Coordination -- How They Interrelate -- 7. Skeletal And Soft-tissue Injuries And Cumulative Trauma Treatment -- 8. The Prescription For A Healthy Workforce: The Synergistic Whole, Or How It All Comes Together. Jane Pomper Dehart. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 255-258) And Index. Exploring diagnostic mix, clinic size, on-site industrial rehabilitation program benefits, prevention medicine, and wellness and fitness strategies, this book describes how to establish an on-site occupational health program. It contains procedures and guidelines developed by the author for 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. Topics include 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.Including concise at-a-glance summaries of a The novel idea of the on-site, at-work model has evolved through the use of methods that enable injured workers to get back to work faster while saving money for the employer and cutting workers' compensation costs.