UPMC Western Maryland Occupational Health Services helps business owners look after the health needs of their employees. No matter the size your staff, we are happy to customize a program to meet your business’s unique needs.
Call 240-964-9355 for more information.
UPMC Outpatient Center
1050 W. Industrial Blvd., Suite 15
Cumberland, MD 21502
When one of your employees reports an on-the-job injury, it’s important to know exactly what caused it. The skilled Occupational Health Services medical team will evaluate and report the findings.
UPMC Western Maryland Occupational Health Services offer several consulting services to help you make your workplace more comfortable, productive, and a safe working environment.
Physician consulting is available on-site or in-house for the following:
Program consulting is also available:
To help ensure your workplace is free from the ill effects of substance abuse, UPMC Western Maryland Occupational Health offers testing on-site or in-house for these purposes:
Medical Review Officer (MRO) services can be provided in-house to ensure appropriate, discrete management of drug and alcohol testing results.
Substance Abuse Professional (SAP) services are available in-house to treat, educate and monitor employees who have tested positive for drugs and/or alcohol.
Drug-Free Workplace programs can be developed and administered for any business desiring a pro-active abuse policy for their company.
Keeping our employees free of communicable illness is important to workplace productivity and helps to lower lost-time illness and health insurance costs. Immunizations for some infectious diseases, such as Hepatitis B, are mandated under OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen regulations. Vaccines against Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, a combination of tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis, measles, mumps, rubella, and influenza are available through our Occupational Health Services. PPD skin testing is also available and on-site flu shots can also be scheduled.
OSHA recommends that mask fit testing to be performed annually for employees covered under the respiratory protection program. Pulmonary function testing (PFT) is at the examining physician’s discretion, but is an integral part of the program. As part of this program, UPMC Western Maryland Occupational Health also offers physician review of the OSHA respiratory questionnaire and the accompanying physical examination. UPMC Western Maryland can provide all of the above services in-house as well as on-site to meet the needs of your business.
Physical examinations are mandated under DOT and many OSHA (respiratory, asbestos, HAZWOPER) programs. Many other businesses utilizae post-offer (pre-employement) exams as means of screening to ensure that prospective workers are place in appropriate and safe positions within the work place.
At UPMC Western Maryland Occupational health we offer the above exams, plus physicals to determine fitness for duty, return to duty, or for special needs that may be particular to your business.
We also provide firefighter exams under applicable NFPA standards for those who currently require them.
Physical exams can be scheduled in-house or on-site depending upon volumes and the needs of your business.
We provide administrative services for the drug and alcohol screening programs, including writing a drug-free workplace policy, providing on-site education, preparing the necessary forms, choosing random names for drug testing, and much more. Also provided is free drug testing when a business enrolls in the third-party administration program.
We offer health services that help prevent disease when you travel abroad as well as treatment for internationally contracted illnesses when you return stateside.
We offer a program to help manage workers’ compensation premiums and payout costs, including initial injury treatment, return-to-duty exams, specialist referral, impartial evaluations to evaluate disability and the need for accommodation, and second opinions regarding current care.
