Biometric Screenings
FirstHealth Occupational Health and Wellness is pleased to provide on-site biometric screening services as a wellness initiative for valued customers in our service area. By adding biometric screenings to your organization’s employee health management plan, you can:
- Identify health risks of your employee population
- Develop health management programs to improve individual and overall health status
- Establish a baseline from which improvements can be measured
- Reduce health care costs and enhance the productivity and performance of your workforce
Screening services
At your convenience, our Occupational Health & Wellness team will come on-site to your work place to perform the screening. Screening services include:
- Blood draw
- Hemoglobin A1c: measures the average blood sugar over the past three months
- Lipid panel: measures cholesterol including triglycerides, HDL and LDL
- Comprehensive Metabolic Panel: measures glucose level, electrolyte and fluid balance, kidney function and liver function
- Complete blood count (CBC): measures platelet count, hemoglobin, white blood cell county, red blood cell count, hematocrit
- Prostate-specific antigen (PSA): used to screen for prostate cancer (men age 40-69)
- Blood pressure measure: screens for high blood pressure and risk of stroke
- Waist circumference: measures health risk associated with excess fat around the waist
- Body mass index (BMI): a person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters. A high BMI can be an indicator of high body fatness.
- Individual Screening Reports: provided to employees for insight into their overall health and opportunities for improvement
- Health Coaching: provided by a medical professional to each employee at the time of the screening to ensure understanding of screening results and identify issues needing immediate attention.
- Aggregate Management Reports: is provided to the employer to establish a baseline of employee health status (excludes employees’ personally identifiable information). All individual screening results are confidential.
We can also assist in referrals to additional FirstHealth programs, such as Prevent T2, Weigh2Be, FirstQuit and others.
For more information, contact Maddie Hart, Health Screening Coordinator at (910) 715-4193 or mhart@firsthealth.org.