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PILOT PHYSICALS NOW OFFERED
AT PROVIDENCE HOOD RIVER’S
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH CENTER
Sept. 3, 2009
 HOOD RIVER, Ore. – With the goal of offering expanded services to Gorge area businesses and to support the needs of private pilots and student pilots, Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital now offers Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) compliant aviation physicals at its Occupational Health Center.
Providence physician Christopher Van Tilburg, M.D., was recently designated as an aviation medical examiner by the FAA, the first such designation in the Columbia River Gorge in several years.
Experienced in family and emergency medicine, occupational and travel health, Dr. Van Tilburg adds aviation physical exams to enhance his practice at Providence Hood River’s occupational health center and travel health services. In addition, Dr. Van Tilburg is a physician at Providence Mountain Medical Clinic at Mount Hood Meadows ski resort and a volunteer with Crag Rats mountain rescue unit. He recently wrote the book “Mountain Rescue Doctor: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature.”
Providence Hood River’s occupational health center offers a full spectrum of services including evaluation, treatment and case management for on-the-job injuries, pre-employment and basic health physicals, aviation, transportation and railroad safety screening, travel health services, disease prevention, ergonomic evaluations and vaccinations. The center’s staff also offers a variety of classes including blood borne pathogens, depression screening, workplace injury prevention, diet and exercise.
Providence’s Occupational Health Center is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information or to schedule an appointment, call 541-387-6383 or 800-955-3911, ext. 76383.
Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital is part of Providence Health & Services, the state’s leading health system and largest private employer. Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital is a full-service, critical-access hospital with a 24-hour emergency department. Providence offers a wide range of health care services in the communities of the Columbia River Gorge through its clinics, care centers and senior living facilities.
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FACT SHEET
Occupational Health Center
Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital
810 12th Street Hood River, Ore. 97031 (Entrance on May Street between 12th and 13th Street)
Providence Occupational Health Center promotes and protects a safe and healthy work environment by offering a full range of services that can be customized to meet the needs of every work force.
Hours of Operation: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday
Appointments: 541- 387-6383
General Information: 800- 955-3911 ext. 76383
Services:
Drug and alcohol testing
- Pre-employment, random, post-accident, reasonable cause suspicion screening, follow up and return to duty
Evaluations
- Hearing testing certified to national standards
- Vision testing
- Respiratory testing
- Electrocardiogram (heart) testing
Medical examinations
- Federal Aviation Association approved Class II and Class III pilot exams
- Pre-employment exams
- Commercial truck drivers license exams
- Railroad worker exams
- Respiratory fit exams for orchard and manufacturing workers
- Scuba diving physicals
- School physicals
Injured worker care
- Injury prevention and ergonomic evaluations
- Treating work injuries and illnesses
- Case management by physician and staff
- Assistance designing light and modified duty jobs
- Emphasis placed on safe return to work
Worksite health nurse services
- On site vaccinations for influenza, hepatitis A, hepatitis B and tetanus
- Basic health screens: cholesterol and glucose, blood sugars and Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA)tests
- Blood pressure check
- Body fat evaluations
- On-site blood screenings including lipid panels.
Travel Health Services
- Pre-travel information and immunizations
Workplace safety classes
- Blood borne pathogen classes
- Ergonomics
- Depression screening
- Workplace injury prevention and safe lifting
- Diet, exercise and nutrition classes
Staff
Michelle Smith, M.D., staff physician
Christopher Van Tilburg, M.D., staff physician
Michael Hauty, M.D., Medical Director, travel health services
Christie Smith, R.N., N.P. (Washington state), staff nurse practitioner
Jamie Adams, Sareni Torres, Kathy Obilana and Hauna Rogers, medical assistants
Patty Sorenson, receptionist
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