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EMERGENCY CARE
Occupational Health Services provides coordinated, timely medical services to your injured workers, so that they can continue to work or return to work as quickly as possible.
Return to Work
While it is rare that Occupational Health Services recommendends that an employee not work due to a work-related injury or illness, when an employee is out of work it is important that they return to work quickly and safely. For the majority of employees, early return to work is therapeutic and facilitates recovery. Our Occupational Health nurses actively work with employers, insurers, and providers to ensure the complexities of work-related injury are understood and to facilitate "stay at work" and "return to work" efforts.
Communication
Occupational Health Services knows how important employees are to employers. An occupational health nurse will communicate with the employer as appropriate and provide a physical capacity form after each clinic visit. We are able to design a communication plan to meet your needs. Our medical providers are easily accessible and can be reached via a phone call.
24-hour Coverage
Occupational Health Services of St. Joseph Health System is open Monday-Friday from 8:00 a.m.- 4:30 p.m., excluding holidays. Occupational Health Services is staffed to handle same day appointments for acute care. Nurses triage acute care to the appropriate medical care provider. Twenty-four hour coverage is provided through St. Joseph Health System's Emergency Department. Emergency Department staff understand work-related injury and illness and communicate effectively with Occupational Health Services for all necessary follow-up appointments.
Tawas St. Joseph Hospital’s emergency department is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and is staffed by a group of qualified physicians and nursing professionals skilled in emergency and trauma care. Emergency care includes the diagnosis and emergent treatment of victims of accidents or other forms of trauma as well as the treatment of patients with various medical problems requiring immediate treatment such as reactions, stroke and heart attack.
In 2002, St. Joseph Health System added a telemedicine component, providing video and audio equipment that connects the emergency room in Tawas with the emergency rooms at Standish Community Hospital and Saint Mary's in Saginaw. This allows the patients the greatest access to specialists. The telemedicine equipment was furnished through a grant from the Michigan Department of Community Health.
In the event that treatment requires specialty medical services such as cardiology and/or neurology, which may not be readily available within the emergency department or through the telemedicine component, patients are diagnosed, stabilized and transferred to another facility. When emergency transfers are necessary, patients may be transferred by means of ground ambulance or flight care.
Beyond that, though, we also offer after-hours care at our Oscoda Health Park, for the treatment of non-emergency illnesses when your regular physician is unavailable. Family care physicians and midlevel providers (physician assistants and nurse practitioners) staff the After-Hours Care Clinic at Oscoda Health Park Monday through Friday from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
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