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Getting employees to commit to hour-long workouts at the gym might be expecting the impossible in many cases. However, new research shows that short bouts of exercise also have significant benefits.
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It's a moment dreaded by every occupational health manager learning that an employee was seriously injured at work. It's also the "moment of truth" for how well the occupational health manager does his or her job.
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Recognizing that patients who don't take medication for chronic conditions as prescribed are more likely to have poor control over their independence, Blue Cross has launched a program to coach people on medication adherence.
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A mindfulness-based stress reduction intervention, shortened so it could be done in the workplace, was done on healthy employees for a six-week period, with researchers measuring salivary cortisol each week.
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Recognizing that more than half the population with depression is treated in the primary care setting, MercyCare Health Plans developed a depression disease management program focusing on giving primary care physicians the tools they need to be able to recognize and treat depression.
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At Carolinas HealthCare System, employees can save $200, $400 or $600 annually by meeting up to 10 wellness criteria, such as exercising regularly, using seatbelts, or avoiding tobacco products.
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When a serious motor vehicle accident occurred at Detroit, MI-based General Motors Corp.'s Milford Proving Ground location, a life flight helicopter was on site less than 10 minutes after the incident.
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Bayada Nurse's program that combines face-to-face education and remote monitoring of clinical information reduces hospitalizations for patients with congestive heart failure and hypertension.
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A combination of face-to-face and telephonic case management has resulted in high patient satisfaction ratings and a significant decrease in health care utilization for patients with complex medical needs.
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Being a nurse's aide or orderly is the most injury-prone job in America. Those aides are four times as likely to be injured on the job as the average worker, and their rate of injury tops freight haulers and handlers, and construction laborers.