October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It’s the ideal time to make sure that you – and the ones you care about – are taking effective steps for early detection.

In the past few years, demand for commercial construction supplies has steadily grown, supplying the US and other emerging countries with vast amounts of steel. Yet, as the production of steel materials has increased so has the number of work-related incidents in the steel industry. Concentra’s Vice-President of Environmental Safety and Health explains why this increase in fatalities is an opportunity to re-examine safety precautions in the workplace.

Concentra's Chief Medical Officer talks about the importance of signaling, which is how we spend resources to convey information about ourselves to others, and softening, which is an acronym for how clinicians can show real concern and care for our patients.

The Whole Grains Council has named September as Whole Grains Month, so it’s a great time to check your diet to make sure you’re getting enough whole grains, which have been shown to lower risk for disease.

Concentra's CEO finds himself at the center of a national story about his homeowners' association and the truck in his driveway. How it relates to patient care and customer service is the subject of Jim's first blog.

Providing some of the nation’s largest employers with effective and efficient health care solutions, Concentra has learned a lot about motivating employees toward good health. But the factors that create the most change might not be the ones you think.

Recently, we launched a video campaign to help familiarize patients with the services and benefits of Concentra Urgent Care. Now available at most Concentra Medical Centers, our urgent care services deliver patients welcoming, respectful, and skillful care for nearly all non life-threatening injuries and illnesses.

Urgent care is a growing branch of medicine that bridges the gap between a patient’s primary care physician and the Emergency Room (ER). Urgent care treats the same non-life-threatening conditions as the ER late at night and on weekends, when most doctor offices are closed. Concentra, a leader in occupational health solutions, saw an opportunity to provide the same level of care it was providing employees, and extend it to their families and the larger population. Today, Concentra Urgent Care is the only urgent care provider with a national presence.

With every passing year, the obesity epidemic seems to grow as much as Americans waistline. Virtually no feasible solution in sight, one company has created a comprehensive program that addresses the factors that lead or support obesity, while simultaneously changing behaviors through increased activity and improved nutrition. What does this health leader know about the fat fight that countless others have missed? A model for success that doesn’t quit after the weight is gone.