Occupational Medicine

Now Available at UK St. Claire

UK St. Claire’s occupational medicine specialists are dedicated to keeping your teams healthy at work.

When you partner with UK St. Claire, we will work with you to promote health and wellness initiatives and preventative measures so your staff can avoid injury or illness. If they do get sick, or get hurt at work, we’ll work with you to make sure they receive the care they need so they can return to full-duty as soon as possible.

What is Occupational Health

Occupational Health, sometimes called Occupational Medicine is the specialty in health care made up of multiple disciplines dedicated to the well-being, safety and treatment of employees in the workplace. This service line is focused on pre-employment work, injury treatment, injury prevention and employee education. Occupational health services include employee wellness, pre-placement testing, ergonomics, physical therapy and more.

Who can benefit from Occupational Health

Occupational Health is the practice of medicine that involves the health of workers at the workplace, including prevention and treatment of injury and diseases. This specialty is also designed to help employers and employees safely improve productivity.

What kind of conditions are treated and what does treatment look like

Occupational Health programs work with business and industry to provide health-related services such as management of work- related injury/illness, return-to-work examinations, pre-employment examinations, administrative duties, general health screenings, workers’ compensation, health promotion/disease prevention, evaluation of worksite environment, health education and more.

A few of the services St. Claire Occupational Health offers include:

• Pre-Employment examinations
• DOT Examinations
• Management of Work-related injuries or illnesses
• Return-to-work examinations
• General Health screenings
• Vaccinations
• Evaluation of worksite environments
• Health education disease prevention, and more.

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Book an appointment by calling 606-783-6400, walk-ins also welcome. No referral needed.