February is Heart Healthy Month, but when it’s too cold to go outside, it’s tempting to stay inside and eat snacks. Do you have heart-healthy snacks in your pantry?

Concentra recently opened a TotalCare Health and Wellness Center at Dallas City Hall to improve the overall health, wellness, and productivity of City employees and enhance access to quality health services.

January is National Healthy Weight Month, a time to focus on your New Year’s resolutions. Do you know what your own healthy weight is? Concentra has simple calculations to find out.

This business agreement between Concentra and Wellsource Health Solutions will provide future clients with a complete, comprehensive health and wellness offering, made possible by Concentra’s national medical centers and on-site facilities.

Concentra has selected BancTec to manage the company’s supplier invoices, providing colleagues and vendors with more efficient communication and improved workflow capabilities.

Concentra’s assistant vice president of product development for urgent care responds to a recent op-ed by a member of USA Today’s editorial board, who asserts that easing the growing number of emergency rooms visits faces serious hurdles. “When a more convenient, lower-cost alternative to the emergency room is made available, consumers will use it,” states Ayers. “This alternative exists today in the form of urgent care.”

Bill W.B. Yeung, M.D., former owner of Valley View Medical Clinic, Inc. in La Mirada, California, has joined Concentra as a Staff Physician in the Concentra Medical Center in La Palma. Concentra has consolidated the operations of Valley View Medical into its La Palma facility, which is located approximately 1 mile away.

For many people, the holidays are as stressful as they are joyous. Learn more about the symptoms of stress, how they can affect your health, and simple things you can do to reduce stress in your daily life.

Concentra is taking part in the first annual Urgent Care Awareness Week, designed to educate the public about the importance of urgent care and how urgent care can serve the health care needs of most families.

Tuesday is Veterans Day, one of the special days when Americans recognize and thank those in the armed forces for their personal sacrifices – and the sacrifices of their families – to protect our great country. Concentra’s Chairman of the Board shares his thoughts on this significant day.

November is American Diabetes Month, and those with diabetes should make sure they’re taking the right steps to control and manage the disease.

Using customer input is not a new concept, especially in the retail industry. Yet the use of customer comments to shape performance has become an increasingly important trend in health care. Alan Ayers explains how Concentra is using direct feedback to raise the standard of health by putting patients first.

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.

At Concentra, we believe that providing quality care to our patients is an integral part of fulfilling our mission to improve America’s health, one patient at a time. As part of our effort to ensure quality in every case, physicians who have demonstrated clinical excellence in their respective fields provide oversight to our entire medical operation through our Medical Expert Panels. Most of these physicians are regarded as experts by top medical organizations and federal agencies. And these respected physicians are also available to our customers as Medical Advisors and Consultants should the need arise.

In a market where patients are taking an active role in their health and health care provider, organizations must also pay attention to all the small elements that can affect a patient’s perceptions and overall experience. By incorporating great service and pleasant atmosphere with great patient care, both the organization and the patient win in the end.

Concentra CEO Jim Greenwood talks with Inside Healthcare's Amanda Gaines about America's health crisis and what our company is offering patients and employers to help address the alarming trends of obesity-related illnesses and conditions.

President and Chief Operating Officer Keith Newton talks to Healthcare Exec magazine about implementing the company’s new mission -- improving America’s health, one patient at a time -- through 320 medical centers in 40 states.

Concentra, a leader in the delivery of health care solutions, is providing important health tips to keep your family safe and healthy this summer vacation season. Summer fun often means summer sun, but it is important to take the necessary precautions when exposing yourself to a day of rays.

Concentra, a leader in the delivery of health care solutions, has launched a new logo specifically designed to support the organization’s strategic extension of its expertise in occupational health to the public with the national expansion of its urgent care services.

Concentra, a leader in the delivery of health care solutions, announced today it has added levels of urgent care service to all 324 Concentra Medical Centers in more than 40 states across the country. This expansion makes Concentra currently the only health care organization with a national presence to offer urgent care services to the general public.

Concentra recognizes the tireless efforts of occupational nurses as part of National Occupational Health Nursing Week, April 14-18, 2008.

Effective April 1, 2008, Concentra has acquired Trinity Regional Health System's two primary care occupational health centers – doing business as Trinity Work Fitness – in Davenport, Iowa and Moline, Illinois. Commonly referred to as the "Quad Cities," this metropolitan area is a new market for Concentra, which operates other medical centers in Iowa and Illinois.

Did you know that Concentra has certified athletic trainers available to help improve your employees’ health? Certified athletic trainers specialize in the prevention, assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation of injuries and illnesses.

Today’s occupational medicine practice poses new clinical and economic challenges for health care providers. Kelly Pyrek of Immediate Care Business magazine talks with Concentra’s Alan Ayers and others about the growing opportunity for urgent care physicians who want to explore a new medical specialty or add services to an existing center.

Callaway Medical Associates, LLP, d/b/a ProMed Minor Emergency Centers (“ProMed”) in the Charlotte, N.C., market, has sold the assets of two occupational health/urgent care centers to Concentra. This acquisition expands Concentra’s geographic footprint to six medical centers in the Charlotte metropolitan area and a total of nine centers in North Carolina.

Concentra recently announced that it has acquired the primary care occupational health and urgent care assets of Springfield Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, P.C., d/b/a Springfield Physical Medicine, in Springfield, Mo. Concentra will combine its existing Springfield practice with that of Springfield Physical Medicine to form a new Concentra Medical Centers facility at Springfield Physical Medicine’s location.

Concentra has announced the addition of three national experts to lead development of the company’s TotalCare and Urgent Care service lines. Since its founding as an occupational health company in 1979, Concentra has helped employers reduce health care expenditures while working as an advocate for patient health and safety. As consumers become more responsible for a greater proportion of their routine health care costs, and as employers look for ways to improve employee health, productivity, and job satisfaction, Concentra is expanding its offerings with TotalCare and Urgent Care.

Effective Monday, February 4, the Concentra Medical Centers location on Dunn Avenue in north Jacksonville, Fla., will move to a larger facility just 0.2 mile east of and across the street from its current location.

Delivering quality, expert patient care in a respectful and efficient manner helps improve wait times in the health care industry.

When it comes to rehabilitating injured workers, it’s been found that the same principles that lead to successful recoveries for athletes can be applied to workplace injuries. Gary Zigenfus describes the role of sports medicine in returning patients to work and life.

For the ultimate sustainability of the American health care system, effective medical outcomes measurement is of critical importance. Dr. Tom Fogarty discusses the role of process management in the practice of occupational medicine.