Occupational Health

Partner with CentraCare across Central Minnesota for employee health services to keep your team healthy, engaged and productive. We’ll help you foster a thriving workplace by supporting your employees' well-being.

Build a Well-Rounded Workforce

Healthy staff make a productive workforce. Outside of their jobs, your employees have personal responsibilities and roles. They’re caregivers, family members, friends, parents, siblings and spouses. It’s important to help them stay safe and healthy at work and in their private lives.

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Why Choose Occupational Health at CentraCare

When you select CentraCare’s services, you’ll gain access to benefits that make us a top employer choice. Here’s why:

  • Comprehensive medical care provides a wide range of services tailored to meet the needs of your business and employees. From pre-employment physicals to injury care and wellness programs, we help maintain a healthy workforce.
  • Health care team expertise and experience in occupational health, offering specialized knowledge, ensures high-quality care for job-related health needs.
  • Customizable programs for your business fit the specific needs of your workforce to address and manage your workplace challenges.
  • Convenient hours and multiple locations make it easy for employees to access health services. This ensures your staff can get care without significantly disrupting their work schedules.
  • A preventive care focus on health screenings, wellness programs and education helps reduce workplace injuries and illnesses.
  • Our holistic employee well-being approach considers physical, mental and emotional health, supporting employees to achieve a healthy life.
  • Strong community ties mean we understand your workforce. We can translate local needs and challenges into superior care and attention for your employees.

Request an Appointment

Employees can request an appointment in Benson, Long Prairie, Redwood, St. Cloud or Willmar by completing our form.

Help Making Health Care Decisions

Navigating the health system can be confusing. Work with us for a simplified experience so you don’t have to worry about every detail. Occupational health experts and team members at CentraCare can help you build a program tailored to your company's needs. Make the process less stressful with our guidance and ensure you use health benefits effectively.

Employment & Workplace Services

You can rely on us for a wide range of essential screenings, same-day injury assessments and drug and alcohol testing. You’ll find specialized physicals tailored to your industry's requirements. Take advantage of on-site service options to minimize workplace disruptions.

Alcohol & Drug Screenings

  • Breath alcohol testing – Measures the amount of alcohol in a person’s breath
  • Blood alcohol screening – Measures the amount of alcohol in an employee’s blood to determine if they’ve been drinking and how much
  • Drug screenings – Detect substances in people with safety-sensitive duties and help you maintain a safe work environment. Rapid drug screening is available.
    • Urine collection for federal and non-federal drug screens

Department of Transportation (DOT) Exam

Certify that employees are physically and mentally fit to operate commercial vehicles safely as required by the DOT.

Share the DOT physical expectations (PDF) and necessary paperwork details with your employees prior to their exam.

Employee Wellness Services

Promote and maintain your employees' health with health education and preventive services. Improve their well-being and productivity while lowering absenteeism and costs.

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Exam

This exam verifies workers’ health fitness for aviation duties to safely operate an aircraft, as the FAA requires.

Hearing Conservation Program

This program prevents hearing loss for your employees exposed to harmful workplace noise.

Physicals

Evaluate your employees’ overall health and risk of health problems with:

  • Pre-placement and periodic physicals – Determine if the potential employee is physically and medically able to perform the required job duties
  • Military physical – Evaluates physical and mental fitness for military service

Workplace-Related Safety Exams

  • HazMat and other OSHA-required – Assesses your workers' health in high-risk jobs with exposure to hazards
  • Respiratory Physicals – Checks and monitors how well an employee’s lungs work to help find signs that work hazards might be affecting the lungs
  • Return to duty – Gauges the readiness of your employee to return to their work duties after leaving for injury, illness or other reasons

Work-Related Injuries

  • Return-to-work evaluations
  • Second opinions
  • Post-evaluations of infectious disease (bloodborne pathogens) exposure

CentraCare Advantages

CentraCare is a large health system with services in many communities. If injuries occur, you’ll gain access to a quick referral system, a wide range of specialized experts and help navigating care and treatment.

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Contact Us

To schedule an employee appointment for Occupational Health services, complete the online appointment request form or call a location closest to you:

  • Benson – 855-361-5740
  • Long Prairie – 855-361-5740
  • St. Cloud – 320-251-9675
  • Willmar – 320-231-5054

For post-accident and reasonable-suspicion drug and alcohol needs at Willmar Clinic, hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.  Monday-Thursday. Outside of those hours, call Rice Memorial Hospital Lab at 320-231-4500 to schedule an appointment.

Occupational Health services may also be available at your local clinic. Contact the CentraCare location nearest to you.

Employers, if you are interested in learning more about how CentraCare can support your employees’ health needs, call us at 855-361-5740 for a free consultation.

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Explore our health care facilities conveniently located throughout the region.

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