Issue 356, 2015/16 December/January (Medical Center Edition)
This issue (Medical Center Edition) includes:
Leading by Example with Freddie Easley
Health & Wellness By The Numbers FY15
Healthy Food Choices at Work
NEW - HR Corner: Give Your Benefits A Checkup
Recipe: Slow-Cooker Buffalo Chicken Meatballs
We want your feedback!
TB Skin Test Training Program
Occupational Health Clinic
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TB Skin Test Training Program trains eligible staff to place, read and document TB Skin Tests for employees and patients.
Return to Work Program
Occupational Health Clinic
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The Return to Work Program allows you to continue working after a job-related illness or injury even when you cannot do all of your regular duties. This lets you continue working, earning pay, receiving benefits and lets you save your accrued time-off for other needs.
Quit Rx
Occupational Health Clinic
The Occupational Health Clinic Quit Rx Program offers counseling and treatment services for smokers ready to give up smoking.
Critical Incident Stress Management
Work/Life Connections
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Work/Life Connections-EAP coordinates Crisis Intervention Services and Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) Services for the VUMC community.
Definition: A Critical Incident is "any event which has the potential to produce unusual or distressing emotional symptoms such as an accident, injury, death, disaster, threat or act of violence, or other traumatic event at the workplace."
Animal Allergy Questionnaire
Occupational Health Clinic
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People who work with animals have an occupational risk of allergies, which can lead to occupational asthma. To prevent asthma, it is important to find individuals who are starting to have allergy symptoms when they work with animals. By identifying these people and helping protect them with a special respirator, we can reduce their exposure to animal allergens and reduce their risk of asthma.
Formaldehyde Program
Occupational Health Clinic
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Staff members who embalm bodies of Anatomical Donations, faculty who use preserved cadavers to teach anatomy, and first-year pathology residents must participate in the formaldehyde surveillance program through the Occupational Health Clinic (OHC).
Work Injury/Illness
Occupational Health Clinic
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If you are a Vanderbilt faculty or staff member and you have an injury caused by your work, the Occupational Health Clinic is here to help you. You do not have to schedule an appointment to be evaluated for a new work injury.
Smallpox Vaccine
Occupational Health Clinic
Smallpox is an acute, contagious illness characterized by fever, backache, and severe headache followed by the appearance of an eruption of papules and vesicles which become pustular by the eighth day. Although smallpox disease has been eradicated worldwide, researchers sometimes still use the vaccinia virus, which is the virus used in the smallpox vaccine. These research faculty and staff may obtain smallpox vaccine from OHC at no charge.
Tetanus / Diphtheria / Pertussis
Occupational Health Clinic
(See VUMC Vaccination Policy requirements further down this page.)