Merit Health Work Well Mobile Unit Saves Companies Money
4/7/2016
Off-site employee health screenings cost companies thousands of dollars in both time and money. To help alleviate the difficulty of taking employees away from the office or off the job site for these services, Merit Health Wesley’s Work Well department can now meet businesses at their doorstep, providing many of these services with its new Mobile Unit.
Designed to accommodate everything from full-spectrum health screenings to physicals and medical surveillance, the Merit Health Work Well Mobile Unit offers individualized services, tailor-made to fit the unique healthcare requirements of each business needing employee healthcare services. Under the leadership of Stephen Beam, M.D., and Nurse Practitioner, Tracy Hennessey, the unit uses the resources of Merit Health Wesley to offer the wide range of services.
“Our mobile unit is equipped to offer almost every service that is available through our office,” said Stephen Beam, M.D. “We’re able to save our clients travel time and expense as well as lessen the burden of coordinating multiple services for employees.”
Mobile Unit Services include but are not limited to:
- Specialty exams for firefighters, police and military
- Pulmonary function testing
- Respirator fit testing
- Executive health physicals
- Pre-employment physicals
- Medical surveillance
- Urine, drug and alcohol screenings
- Random selection services
- DOT physicals
- Vaccinations and communicable disease clearance
- Hearing conservation program
- OSHA medical compliance
One of the major benefits of the mobile unit is the ability to serve a larger population, reaching communities around the state and even across state lines.
“We are proud that, for 25 years, we’ve been able to provide services to companies right here in the Pine Belt” said Beam. “But we are now excited to reach outside of the Hattiesburg area and provide much-needed assistance across the state and even outside of Mississippi.”
To learn about the options available through the Mobile Unit, call (601) 268-8086 or visit MeritHealthWorkWell.com.
About Merit Health Wesley
As an affiliate of the state’s largest healthcare system, Merit Health Wesley is committed to providing superior care across the Pine Belt. Recognized for patient safety and for top performance on key quality measures, Merit Health Wesley is also the area’s first and only accredited Chest Pain Center and only area hospital to be accredited for Heart Failure care. For more information about Merit Health Wesley, call (601) 268-8000.
About Merit Health
Merit Health serves the healthcare needs of residents of Mississippi through its 12 affiliated hospitals and 120 physician practices. The healthcare system offers a wide array of services including orthopedics, cardiology, women’s health, emergency departments and broad diagnostic medical and surgical services. The network has approximately 2,300 licensed beds, 2,500 physicians on the combined active medical staffs, and 7,000 employees, and more than 53,000 admissions and 300,000 emergency department visits each year. Merit Health Batesville is owned, in part, by physicians. Learn more at mymerithealth.com.
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