No matter who you are or where you work, you deserve affordable, high-quality urgent care when you need it. That’s where Total Occupational Medicine comes in. Schedule a virtual appointment or visit us today at our location on Drusilla. Additionally, make sure to ask us about occupational medicine services to see if we can help your workplace with treatments such as vaccines, DOT physicals, and blood drawings.
Total Occupational Medicine is dedicated to providing high quality injury treatment and occupational testing for Greater Baton Rouge and Gulf South businesses. Our spacious clinic is designed to reduce wait times for your employees – limiting time spent away from work. Our experienced staff of licensed and certified professionals is ready to meet your health and safety needs.
Employees can visit any of our convenient urgent care locations for:
Healthy employees, on the job safety and work wellness is as important to our team as it is to you. To support you, our clinic offers injury management services with the healthcare expertise you want for your employees and the timeliness you need to keep your business productive. Getting your employee back at work is an important part of our treatment and rehabilitation plan. We do this with communication with you and without the overutilization of medical services.
We offer a variety of employment physicals to applicants to confirm they can perform duties required of the job. Department of Transportation (DOT), NON-DOT, Return to Work, Fit for Duty, and many others. Our experts are trained on the current regulations necessary to ensure you’re employing the best workforce.
Our clinic understands that drug abuse and alcoholism in the workplace negatively impacts your employee’s job safety, productivity and your company’s bottom line. This abuse can affect an employee’s safety. Our clinic offers certified collectors to meet your testing needs. We also offer complete management of Department of Transportation (DOT) and non-DOT testing programs including random testing. Our clinic continually monitors the quality of the drug-testing program through routine internal compliance audits and staff training. We stay current with any regulation changes in testing regulations, to ensure our business and yours is up to date.
Our clinical staff members are trained to administer vaccinations from annual flu injections to employer specific travel vaccines upon request. We also offer TB screening utilizing the Mantoux test or via blood draw (QFT or T-Spot) per request.
At Total Occupational Medicine, we offer travel-related and routine vaccinations to keep you healthy no matter where you are going. Completion of a brief health history, and details about your travel and activity plans will allow us to minimize your risk. Vaccine recommendations are dependent on your destination(s), accommodations, age, activities, health and vaccine history, budget, and level of risk you are comfortable with. Educational information and recommendations will also be provided to help prevent insect-borne illnesses and gastrointestinal disorders from ruining your trip.
Available vaccines include:
Total Occupational Medicine is an official Yellow Fever Vaccination Center. We will provide the immunization and the required documentation.
This testing process can ensure that employees meet the physical and health standards necessary to safely perform their duties. So, if you are an employee that drives a commercial motor vehicle (CMV), Total Occupational Medicine is ready to meet your DOT testing needs. We offer comprehensive DOT testing that’s fast and simple. And, because our clinics offer walk-in service, you don’t need to schedule an appointment. So, when you need DOT testing in the greater Baton Rouge area, we are ready to help.
The DOT test includes several individual examinations that can measure physical capabilities and detect potential health conditions. It involves a review of your medical history and taking your blood pressure as well as your pulse rate. In addition, a vision test, hearing test, physical exam, and urinalysis are also given during the exam.
This portion of the DOT test involves a physical exam of the following:
Each is evaluated to look for any potential health issues that could make driving a CMV unsafe.
Vision is also an important part of safe driving. Total Occupational Medicine will test your vision to check for any potential issues that could affect you on the job. A vision score between 20 to 40 for both eyes is considered acceptable. Those who wear prescription glasses are encouraged to bring them along for this part of the test.
DOT employees must spend several hours driving each day, which can place additional strain on the body. For this reason, your blood pressure and pulse will be measured to look for any potential conditions that could make driving a CMV difficult or unsafe.
An important part of safe driving is ensuring that the driver can properly focus on the road, and this includes using their sense of hearing. For this part of the examination, you will need to be able to identify a forced whisper from approximately five feet away.
As a DOT employee operating heavy machinery, you are responsible for preventing injury to yourself and others on the road. A urinalysis test can determine if there are potential health issues or concerns that could put your safety or the safety of others at risk.
Total Occupational Medicine will come to your worksite or office to perform necessary testing, alleviating travel time and wait time involved in traditional testing at a clinic. We have been providing on-site occupational medicine services in Baton Rouge and the surrounding areas for over thirty-five years.
With our certified technicians and state of the art equipment, we are able to provide tests that are both accurate and cost effective. Whether the job is small or large we can deliver an onsite solution to meet your needs, with or without our mobile unit.
Our self-contained mobile units are equipped with the following: A Complete Exam Room, Three Audiometric Testing Booths and a Blood Draw Station.