Safety Archives - Elite Care Family Medicine

Summertime is in full swing and that means long, hot days spent outside at the pool, the ballfield, and local parks. We love the fun activities associated with warmer temps and sunny skies as much as anyone, but we also take care to be safe during the extreme summer temps that are often reached here in the South in the summer months.  Nothing ruins a fun ballgame or day of outdoor chores like heat illnesses and dehydration. Heat illnesses occur when the air temperature...

Johnna and Mandy are best friends who recently learned about several job openings at a local manufacturing facility. Together, the two apply for open positions matching their individual skill sets. To their delight, both are called in for interviews and later selected for employment. But first, Johnna and Mandy must pass a pre-employment drug test.  Both Mandy and Johnna will fail their drug tests for the same drug--a prescription pain medicine. However, Johnna...

Drug testing in the workplace has long been a controversial topic. Those against company drug testing believe it is an invasion of employees’ privacy. Others argue that some employers abuse the random drug testing policy against certain employees. At EliteCare, we believe drug testing in the workplace is still important even if you live in a state where marijuana and other once illegal substances are now legal. We also believe there are solutions to the cons of...