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Article: Success story: Boosting annual health screens.
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- Hospital Employee Health
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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Success story: Boosting annual health screens
Too many employees lost to follow-up
Sometimes the routine becomes routinely ignored. That is what had happened at North General Hospital in New York City with annual health assessments.
The hospital viewed them as an important encounter for immunizations, TB screening, fit-testing, and other fitness-for-duty issues, and Joint Commission surveyors asked about employee health records. But too often, the employees themselves let the appointments slide.
"It was easy for them to get lost to follow-up for some particular reason," says Linda Primus, MS, PA-C, employee health services manager. ...