Occupational Health Services expand at YVR

For more than 10 years, Ultima Medical’s Vancouver Airport Clinic has provided walk-in medical services to thousands of travellers, airport employees and many local Richmond families. With the growth and expansion of YVR and businesses throughout Sea Island, the Vancouver Airport Clinic has expanded its services, teaming with physiotherapist Gordon Bohlmann, owner of Marpole Physiotherapy Clinics, to provide an all-inclusive model of occupational health assessments, treatment and return-to-work coordination for employee and employer. The services offered at the Vancouver Airport Clinic include physiotherapy assessment and treatment, functional assessments and evaluations for return-to-work planning, massage therapy, ergonomic assessment and recommendations, job demands analysis, travel consultation and vaccinations, podiatry and orthotics, an Acute Medical Intervention Program and psychological assessments and treatment. The Acute Medical Intervention Program (AMIP) is designed around globally recognized best practices that encourage the patient’s rapid recovery with a safe and timely return to work, providing a win-win for both employee and employer. An early return to the workplace has been demonstrated to assist the employee’s healing process, while providing significant cost savings to the employer, since every day a worker is away on sick leave the cost to the employer, including benefits, is at least three times the employee’s daily rate. At the initial AMIP visit, a patient is examined by one of the Vancouver Airport Clinic’s physicians for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning, followed by an assessment by the physiotherapist to identify level of functionality. The latter completes a detailed functional abilities form, which is provided to both patient and employer for return-to-work coordination. The patient is encouraged to book a follow-up appointment on a specific date with either their own or one of the physicians and physiotherapist at the Vancouver Airport Clinic for ongoing support and functional assessment through the transitional work process. The AMIP includes ongoing updates to both patient and employer on the level of fitness for work—by way of the functional abilities form—while maintaining medical confidentiality of the patient’s personal health information. The walk-in occupational health and executive clinic is located on Level 1 of the Domestic Terminal, and with the new Canada Line in operation individuals and families outside the Sea Island environment can easily access one of the physicians without the hassle of negotiating a parking spot.

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