I decided to place this session by itself as I had written on this session last week. Prioritizing mental health of injured workers has came to the forefront in “the whole person” medical treatment.
Dr. Boden – Suicide and Opioid Mortality Related to Workplace Injury
Injured Worker Mortality in New Mexico
(c) Public Domian Women – Lost time injured -10%
- Men – Lost time injured – 16%
Suicides and Opioids result in more deaths than auto accidents
Drug-related and suicide deaths within 20 years after injury – 300% higher in women
A study from West Virginia – same results
Injured employees had a very heavy tendency for opioid dependency
40% increase in depression post-injury lost-time claims
Injury prevention is tantamount.
Mr. Callahan – MA Building Trades Council
- 93% male workforce
- If you do not work, you do not get paid
- A lot of addiction due to return to work issues, need to work
- Peer-to-peer advisors have been successful
Mary Christensen – Southern CA Edison
- Advocacy program – 360-degree outlook
- EAP provider teaming with claims department for services offered by EAP
- Non-occ claims reps brought in for training
- Identifying stuck employees
Dr. Larsen – New England Baptist Hospital
- CBT Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – coping skills
- Pre-frontal therapy never addresses the limbic system
- Limbic approach EMDR- Rapid Eye Movement treatment
- Reteach breathing to lower stress
- Sense of learned helplessness <<<I have seen this often in Workers Comp claims >>>
- Lew Millender, MD – Baptist Hospital – if you care about your patients, they will return to work faster
- Field Case Manager – Rehab Nurse on file always makes the file turn out better <<<my favorite WC Risk Management Technique>>>>
- Return to work always has to be the goal when prioritizing mental health
- Trauma theatre – rewind effect of the trauma
- Physical therapists are invaluable to the psychological recovery
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