Expert occupational medicine in Kingsport, TN
At Ballad Health Medical Associates Occupational Medicine, we’re dedicated to keeping your workplace safe and your employees healthy while they’re on the job. Through pre-employment physicals or functional capacity exams, we make sure your employees are physically capable of doing their jobs safely.
We treat work-related injuries and illnesses to meet your workers’ health and safety needs.
We offer an easy-to-use online portal system for employer access to drug screening and breath alcohol testing results, DOT physicals, pre-employment physicals and worker’s compensation visit summaries.
Our team consists of occupational medicine providers, specially trained nurses, care managers and technicians.
Getting your employees back to work – quickly and safely
We follow a rapid return-to-work philosophy and provide immediate worker injury evaluation and treatment, along with prompt communications to employers. It’s important to protect employee health and safety with programs aimed at preventing illness and injury during their day-to-day time on the job.
Our objectives
- Preserve employees’ productivity
- Prevention of reinjury
- Reduce disability
- Provide effective, efficient, predictable injury treatment
- Decrease replacement of training costs
Comprehensive occupational medicine services
- Injury treatment and care management (including diagnostic imaging)
- Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure Testing
- Impairment rating
- DOT Physicals
- Pre-employment physical exams
- Company specific physical exams
- TDAP/Tetanus vaccinations
- Hepatitis B vaccinations (including immunization titers)
- Influenza vaccinations
- Tuberculosis screenings
- Lead
- Silica
- Chromium
- Asbestos
- Cytomel
- Methylene chloride
- Menest
- Firefighter exams
- EMT exams
- Hazmat exams
- Additional surveillance exams available
- Breath alcohol testing
- Certified Medical Review Offices for Drug Screens
- CPR/BLS Training
- DOT Consortium Services
- Drug screening, including urine and hair testing
- Fit for Duty Exams
- CAOHC Certified Hearing Conservation
- NIOSH Certified Pulmonary Function Testing
- Respirator Mask Fit Testing (Quantitative and Qualitative)
- TN Drug Free Workplace Training
- Additional surveillance exams available
Employer authorization form
To use Ballad Health Medical Associates Occupational Medicine services in your workplace, please fill out, email, fax or print and bring the form below to the designated clinic.
Employer Authorization Form.pdf [2.29 MB].
Contact us
Call (423) 224‑5126 to schedule your appointment or ask about any of our services.