Travel Well: travel medicine program in Northwest Indiana.

• Position: Indiana Wellness Guide

Working Well is an occupational health program provided by the Northern Indiana Region of the Sisters of St. Francis Health Services. Saint Margaret Mercy (Hammond and Dyer), Saint Anthony (Crown Point) and Saint Anthony Memorial (Michigan City) have created a regional occupational health initiative that reaches from Lake County to LaPorte County. This regional initiative provides a comprehensive approach to employers to address a variety of occupational health issues.

Working Well offers businesses a full-range of healthcare services designed to help companies control healthcare costs and keep employees healthy. Having one source that can provide all healthcare services assures companies of a more efficient continuum of care, better case management, a unified team of healthcare professionals and a customized approach to healthcare needs.

Some of the services provided at Working Well include:

* Preventive medicine programs

* Health risk assessments

* Occupational health and substance abuse screenings

* Customized health programs

* Job specific evaluations and functional capacity assessments

* Rehabilitation, physical therapy

* Case management

* Industrial first aid

* Employee health fairs

* Work hardening

* Wellness

* Travel medicine

The Working Well Travel Medicine program, aptly named Travel Well, is available at the Michigan City and Hammond locations. The Travel Well practitioners can provide information on all aspects of traveling including immunizations, safe food and water, and injury and illness abroad. They can also alert you to any health risks you may face and the action you need to take to protect yourself while traveling.

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International travel can be one of life's more pleasurable and enriching experiences, and it is often a necessary part of business. Wondrous sights, sounds and encounters await you, but that's not all. In many parts of the world, diseases we never think about are common. Diseases such as yellow fever, typhoid fever, hepatitis A and B, meningitis, Japanese encephalitis, diphtheria, cholera and others can ruin your trip, and more important, place your life at risk.

The good news is that...