JoAnn Shea, ARNP, MS, COHN-S

Director, Employee Health & Wellness      “Caring for our Caregivers”

Work: 813-844-7692    Cell:  813-789-3441    FAX;  813-844-8144    Email:  jshea@tgh.org

From: MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh-bounces@mylist.net> On Behalf Of Darlene Sims
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2018 12:01 PM
To: mcoh-eh@mylist.net
Subject: {EXTERNAL} [MCOH-EH] Drug Screening

I am curious as to what other facilities are using as their drug screen methods for the following:

Pre-employment  Rapid on site testing (5 panel:  opiates, THC, amph/meth, cocaine, PCP)

Randoms  (None, except for those in our Employee Recovery Program)  We do witnessed randomly

Reasonable suspicion/cause or other mandatory:   Healthcare Professional Panel through CRL and/or COC blood alcohol, ETG/ETS

I am researching with plans to change our methods due to continuous reports and the new creative ways employees are coming up with in hopes of avoiding a positive result; such as, devices, using someone else’s urine & maintaining adequate temp and actually have had 1 reported method where someone was injecting via catheter “homemade” urine who was eventually caught.

Thank you,

Darlene Sims MSN,FNP-C

Director Infirmary Employee Health Services

Locations at MIMC, Thomas Hospital ,NBI &ACH

185 Mobile Infirmary Blvd

Mobile, Al 36607

MIMC office (251)435-3377 opt 3 fax (251)435-3067

Thomas Hospital (251)279-1605 fax (251)279-1606

NBI (251)937-5521 ext 1860

ACH (251)368-6314

darlene.sims@infirmaryhealth.org