WorkWell Occupational Health

WorkWell: Partners in Your Success
A company's greatest asset is its people. Ensuring their health and safety is critical for your long term success. Southern Maine Medical Center’s WorkWell program offers a comprehensive variety of local occupational health services designed to maximize worksite safety and employee health and productivity.

We’re local, offering services from our hospital in Biddeford. And we’re supported by the staff and services of one of Maine’s premier community hospitals. Together we work as a team—and your partner—in providing leading-edge prevention, evaluation, rehabilitation, and education-based occupational health services.

SMMC’s WorkWell Program is located on the 2nd floor of the main hospital building at 1 Medical Center Drive. WorkWell clients should park in the patient parking section near the main entrance of SMMC. Once inside of the hospital main entrance, clients should proceed to the hospital elevator and select the 2nd floor, where they will find the WorkWell Department just to the left after they exit the elevator. SMMC’s WorkWell program is open Monday-Friday from 7:00am-4:30pm and is closed on Saturday & Sunday.

To learn more about what WorkWell can do to help you, please call our marketing specialist at 207-283-7600 today.

WorkWell Services
Save valuable time, ensure easy access and avoid employee inconvenience. The WorkWell team can visit your site to provide a variety of general & customized services, including:

• Post-offer physicals
• DOT/ICC physicals
• Lead & heavy metal testing
• Bloodborne pathogen training
• Audiometry testing
• Respirator clearance evaluation
• Respirator fit testing
• Neurometrix testing - ulnar and median
• Blood & body fluid exposure counseling
• Traveling immunizations
• Employee Assistance Program

Preventive Therapy
WorkWell offers on-site or clinic-based services, including:

• Immunizations (flu shots, TB testing, measles, mumps, rubella, rabies, and chicken pox vaccines, tetanus, pre-exposure rabies, post-exposure rabies, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, and Twinrix Hepatitis A/B)
• On-site education programs
• Pro- and post-exposure blood and body fluid counseling & treatment
• Post-offer physicals
• Lead & heavy metal testing
• Lab work to determine need for vaccines
• Cholesterol testing

Education Programs
Work Well offers a variety of education programs designed to enhance the safety and quality of the work environment and individual lifestyles. The bottom line: safer, healthier individuals means a more productive and positive workforce. Our education programs include:

• Video display terminal training
• Back training classes
• Classes on proper body mechanics
• Ergonomic worksite analysis
• Post-offer back assessments
• Upper extremity/cumulative Trauma
• Stretching programs
• CPR & first aid courses
• Smoking cessation programs
• Health & wellness screening
  • Cholesterol
  • Pulmonary Function Testing
  • Body fat

Injury Management
WorkWell’s staff is available to provide injury management services, offering accurate diagnoses, direct communication with both the employer and employee, and full accessibility to SMMC’s medical and rehabilitation services, including physical and occupational therapies. WorkWell’s staff serves as a partner to ensure that both the employee and employer receive the best service possible, including:

• Computer-based progress reports
• Follow-up consultations with the employer
• Identification of alternate duty for injured employees when necessary
• Pharmacy services & prescriptions while employee is a patient with WorkWell
• Full reports of Emergency Department physician treatments (diagnosis, work capacity orders, discharge instructions)
• Acute rehabilitative injury management (physical & occupational therapies)
• Specialty evaluations, including:
  • Fitness for duty

Drug and Alcohol Testing
WorkWell provides comprehensive drug and alcohol testing for both Department of Transportation (DOT) as well as Non-DOT drug-free workplace environments:

• DOT drug & alcohol surveillance
• Collection, screening & processing
• Randomizing & record keeping
• Pre-employment services
• Medical Review Officer services with 24 hour result reporting for drug testing
• Assistance with drug-free workplace policy development
• Employee Assistance Program

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