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Workers' Compensation Symposium: "Risk Management - How Others Do It"

Presented by Illinois Risk Management Services and Illinois Chapter AOHP
May 28-29, 2008
Crowne Plaza, Springfield, IL

Presentation Material (Note: PowerPoint presentations may take a moment to download.)

• Pre-Employment Assessments - What Are the Medical, Legal, and Human Resource Issues that Can and Cannot be Addressed
  - Post Offer Medical Evaluations: Identifying the Goals (Robert Ayers, MD, Director Occupational Health, OSF St. Mary's, Galesburg)
  - HB0928: Workers' Compensation Act
  - The Functional Testing Process: Making Sure You Get the Employee You Want (Michael Davis, Vice President, Illinois Work Injury Resource Center)
  - Sample Nursing Services Pre-Employment Functional Testing (Michael Davis, Vice President, Illinois Work Injury Resource Center)
  - Stephanie Dodge Gournis, Partner, Drinker Biddle and Reath
  - Pre-Employment Assessments: The Human Resources Perspective (Ellen Arens, Director of Human Resources, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital)
  - Physical Job Demands: Microbiology/Serology (Ellen Arens, Director of Human Resources, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital)
  - Physical Job Demands Template (Ellen Arens, Director of Human Resources, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital)
  - Physical Job Demands: Radiology Technologist I & II (Ellen Arens, Director of Human Resources, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital)
   

• The Integral Components of Managing Your Workers' Compensation Exposures for Positive Outcomes
  - Measuring the Success of Return-to-Work Incentives (Robert Buchanan, Director of Risk Management, Kitty Hawk, Inc.)
   

• The Economics of Establishing a Hospital Safety Program - Ancillary, Clinical and OSHA - How They Fit Together
  - The Economics of Workplace Safety (Dee Kumper, Associate Safety, Ascension Health; Kelly Flewelling, Human Resources Specialist, St. Mary's Hospital, Amsterdam, NY; and Donald Maynes, Director of Operations, Equitable Safety Group, Inc.)
  - Ascension Health SmartMoves Knowledge Center
  - A Fresh Approach to Workplace Safety (Donald Maynes, Director of Operations, Equitable Safety Group, Inc.)
  - Hospital Patient Lift & Transfer Equipment: An Overview (Donald Maynes, Director of Operations, Equitable Safety Group, Inc.)
   

• Systematic Review of the Differential Diagnosis of Spinal Conditions that Mimic Shoulder Pathology
  - Differentiating Shoulder Versus Cervical Spine Pathology: A Pain in the Neck (Kern Singh, MD, Practicing Orthopedic Spine Surgeon, Rush University Medical Center)