News Briefs
News Briefs
Magellan to provide US Airways EAP
Magellan Behavioral Health, Columbia, MD, has been awarded a contract to provide an employee assistance program (EAP) for US Airways. The program serves approximately 41,000 employees and their family members in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean.
"By extending this 24-hour confidential service to its employees and family members in Canada, Bermuda, and the Caribbean, in addition to those in the continental United States, US Airways demonstrates its ongoing commitment to providing expanded employee assistance services to its employees," notes John J. Wider, president and CEO of Magellan. For more information, contact: Christine Verdon, Magellan Health Services, (410) 953-2423.
Guides address workplace violence
DCC, a global provider of workplace services designed to increase productivity and efficiency and reduce absenteeism, has introduced two new LifeCare Digests on workplace violence.
A LifeCare Digest for Employers: Preventing Workplace Violence, is geared toward human resource professionals and managers, and provides basic information on risk factors, warning signs, and strategies, including employee conflict resolution training, peer counseling and employee assistance programs for employees.
A Lifecare Digest on Preventing Workplace Violence is geared toward employees and provides helpful tips and information on recognizing warning signs, avoiding potential "danger zones," and taking safety precautions. The digest offers a detailed description of what constitutes workplace violence, as well as how to spot changes in co-workers’ behavior.
For more information, contact: Jane Levene, DCC Inc. Telephone: (203) 291-3787. DCC’s Web site is: www.dcclifecare.com.
Report highlights depression diagnosis, treatment
An executive briefing from Business and Health magazine highlights the best practices of 11 leading health plans concerning improving detection of depression, targeting patients at risk, addressing access to care and impacting the quality of patients’ lives. The 11 plans are all members of the Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP), a national not-for-profit collaborative.
The eight-page report, prepared through an educational grant from Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, also provides an overview of the physical and emotional impact of depression and the corresponding costs to employers of coverage for inpatient, outpatient and pharmacological services, in addition to depression-related absenteeism and decreased worker productivity. To obtain a copy of the report, contact: Ann Peterson, Business and Health Special Projects, 5 Paragon Drive, Montvale, NJ 07645-1742. Or, you can fax your request to: (201) 722-7260.
Lifeguard extends acupuncture benefit
San Jose, CA-based Lifeguard, the first California health plan to offer HMO and POS members wide access to acupuncture benefits, is now offering the same coverage for acupuncture benefits, at no additional charge, to its PPO and out-of-area (OOA) plan members already participating in a supplemental chiropractic benefit package.
"We were overwhelmed by the popularity of and the demand for acupuncture and chiropractic benefits among [HMO] members, and soon recognized that our PPO and OOA plan members should likewise be afforded access to these therapies," says S. Joseph Aita, MD, executive vice president and chief medical officer of Lifeguard.
For more information, contact: Marci Blaze, The Blaze Company, 228 Main St. #4, Venice, CA 90291. Telephone: (310) 450-6060.
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