Expert programs to improve the health of workers

Duke provides a full spectrum of assessment, treatment, and prevention services for occupational and environmental health issues.

Our expert staff, including physicians who are both residency-trained and board-certified in Occupational Medicine, offer services ranging from one-time individual or situational assessments to design and implementation of injury-prevention, wellness, monitoring, and compliance programs for workplaces and others.

We work with individual patients, employers, and other parties, recognizing that each has different needs. After identifying your unique concerns, we will create a customized solution from the services we offer.

We provide evaluations and treatment consistent with applicable regulations, protecting confidentiality appropriately, and providing carefully considered work restrictions and job accommodation advice.

Specific services offered:

• All types of employment exams
• Work-related injury and illness treatment
• PFTs, audiograms, lab tests, screening exams, etc.
• Preventive medicine and health maintenance exams
• All exams required by FAA, DOT, OSHA (e.g. hearing conservation, respirator clearance, etc.)
• 24-hour services to address blood and body fluid exposures
• Drug testing and MRO services
• Limited "convenience" care for employees' personal illness (by prior arrangement)
• Job-related travel medicine with full range of immunizations

We offer specialty medical evaluations for:

• Work-relatedness or work capacity

• Job accommodations
• Health impact assessment for toxic, physical, or biological exposures
• Medical-legal and worker’s compensation evaluations
• Disability assessments
• Causation analysis