[MCOH-EH] For cause/reasonable suspicion testing after hours

[Ott, Susan]

Please see what we do below in red.
We provide these after-hours services through the ED at our hospital.  If a drug screen and or breath alcohol is needed the ED staff call our "on call" person to come in to provide the services.
Our OPT staff is paid an "on call" hourly amount for the hours they are on call and then get paid their hourly wage at time and one-half if they are called in to perform services.
Our contract vendor charges a fee of $150 if they are called in to provide service.  They do not receive an hourly amount for the time they are "on-call" for our department.

We ran into the same circumstances where it was difficult to keep ED or lab employees qualified to perform the services for us.

Susan Ott
Susan.ott at forthc.com<mailto:Susan.ott at forthc.com>
Phone: 920-568-5018

From: MCOH-EH [mailto:mcoh-eh-bounces at mylist.net] On Behalf Of Upfal, Mark
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 10:05 AM
To: 'MCOH/EH'
Subject: [MCOH-EH] For cause/reasonable suspicion testing after hours

At our institution, Occ Health Services is a M-F 7am-5pm operation, and the ED provides our back up after hours for workplace injuries.  However, it is difficult for them to provide qualified, trained collectors for forensic drug and alcohol testing.  Thus, we are working on other options, and would like to benchmark with what others are doing.  So, I'm interested in knowing what your institution does for nights/weekends when a medical center employee is being evaluated for cause/reasonable suspicion.  Which of the following applies at your institution, and how happy are you with how that works?

(a) The ED provides for specimen collection (if so, how has that been working out with CCF, collection QA, etc?)

(b) We send employees to a nearby 24/7 occ health clinic outside our medical center

(c) Our medical center provides occ health services 24/7

(d) We have occ health staff on call 24/7 to come in for collection   We have OPT staff that cover some after-hours services (also see our other option)

(e) We have trained collectors available on site at our medical center from other departments (e.g. an administrative supervisor)

(f) We have an outside mobile service come on site to perform collections  We have a contract vendor that covers the majority of the after-hours services when our office is closed.

(g) We do not test after hours, and refer the individual to OHS the next business day.

(h) Other?

Mark

Mark Upfal, MD, MPH
Corp Medical Director, DMC Occupational Health Services
4201 Saint Antoine, UHC 4G-3
Detroit, MI 48201
(313) 993-0509
www.dmc.org/ohs<http://www.dmc.org/ohs>

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