Business Health Excellence:
Mercy Serves Area Employers with Expertise, Experience
 The first occupational health program in Siouxland, Mercy Business Health Services offers a comprehensive array of services available to business and industry to help them lower the cost of health care. Working collaboratively, Mercy helps Siouxland employers identify, address and eliminate health issues before they become costly health claims. The health, wellness and safety of client company’s staff members always have top priority.
“Keeping people well at work is our goal,” says Dr. Rodney Cassens, medical director for Mercy Business Health Services. “Mercy’s on-site occupational health nurses provide companies, organizations and government entities numerous services and benefits including short-term nursing care, first aid programs, personal health and safety education, and immunization clinics. They also offer health and wellness screenings and physicals.”
According to Cassens, a healthy workforce makes for a healthy bottom line.
“At a time when health benefit costs continue to escalate at an alarming rate, studies show that employee wellness programs are an important way employers can help address healthcare costs and possibly reduce future healthcare claims expense,” he says. “Not to mention, from an ethical and social standpoint, keeping people healthy by preventing or curtailing disease and injury is just the right thing to do.”
While Mercy Business Health Services has shown a strong commitment to providing occupational medicine of the highest quality during the past 22 years, its services continue to evolve.
One year ago this month, Mercy launched a unique workforce health initiative that uses an early detection and prevention approach plus employee education to enhance workforce health and reduce employer healthcare costs. The Mercy Workforce Health Initiative has been very well received by Siouxland businesses and organizations, according to Matt Robins, the program’s Employer Relations Specialist.
“Employers taking part in this program understand they can realize such benefits as increased productivity, reduced absenteeism, lower turnover and fewer injuries by improving the overall health of their workforces,” Robins says. “We make use of a variety of tools including employer-based health information centers, on-site screenings, educational events, personal health profiles, personal health reports and other features designed to address a business owner’s individual workplace needs.”
“Employers receive detailed information that allows them to make a correlation between the cost of employee benefits, lost productivity and workers’ compensation premiums with profitability if problems are left untreated,” Robins adds.
The secret to Mercy Business Health Services’ success may lie in its highly qualified, experienced staff, which includes nurses and wellness coordinators. They routinely undergo training through nationally recognized programs.
Along with their expertise and experience, a high regard for outstanding customer service is key.
“We strive to offer the best possible services we can,” explains Lana Bleil, manager of Mercy Business Health Services. “As we collaborate with companies to develop a comprehensive results-oriented program that best meets their employees' needs, we always look to enhance and expand services in any way we can.”
“The recent availability of on-site cholesterol screening that yields immediate results is just an example of one such enhancement,” Bleil adds.
In addition to on-site occupational health nursing and worksite wellness, Mercy Business Health Services also offers worker injury evaluation and treatment, rehabilitation services, loss prevention, and cost containment services. For more information, visit www.mercysiouxcity.com, or call (712) 274-4250. Outside Sioux City, call toll free, 1-800-711-3923.
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