As Wendy said; you have described the challenges.  We just have employees do Quantiferon if they are on that train or PPD (and TB questionnaire for both) annually a year from last test.  They call or come by OHF and we send an LVN to one of our other hospitals too.  All results go into OH Tracker for medical surveillance and medical staff office and HR/departments have access to who is cleared.

 

We also have about 200 clinics from Irvine to Ventura and so those order/do tests and result to OHF as above for clinics too far away to come to us.  We do a lot of remote managing with nurse navigator and policies procedures for outlying clinics.  This is true for exposure management to all infectious diseases of concern.

 

Warner

 

 

 

We are facing the challenges of providing employee health services to healthcare system that is growing a very rapid pace.  New clinics, off-site locations, and departments are being added monthly, if not weekly.  I have two questions for the group.

 

1.      One of our greatest challenges is in administering our tuberculosis testing program.  We currently place PPDs based upon the designated month for the employee’s department.  It is becoming more and more difficult to manually update and maintain a list that is then tied to our electronic employee health record.  How do you administer your TB program? Do you designate testing by department by month, by the employee’s birth date, etc.?  What challenges or advantages have you seen with your particular program method?

2.      If your healthcare system has gone through or is going through rapid growth, how have you managed providing fitness for duty testing and exposure management follow up to your off-site employees? Do you outsource, contract with other hospitals, travel, etc.?

 

 

 / Meredith R. Weaver, SHRM-CP

Manager, Employee Health

WVU Medicine

PO Box 8120

Morgantown, WV 26506-8120

Phone: 304-598-4000 ext. 77719

Clinic: 304-598-4160

Fax: 304-598-4957

weaverm@wvumedicine.org

WVUMedicine.com

 

 

 

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