Premier Community Health

Occupational Health offers comprehensive services for employers focused on keeping employees healthy and injury-free. Our services and programs include injury care, drug and alcohol screenings, workplace screenings, vaccination programs, medical programs, post-employment services, Health and wellness programs and many other worksite services.

The school nurse program offers comprehensive nursing services to schools by offering full-time clinic, one-on-one nursing and substitute nurse staffing services. The school nurse program is staffed by 2 licensed school nurses (lsn), a supervisor, and a medical director that oversees our protocols and clinical guidelines. The nurses provide full nursing services within the embedded schools depending on the needs of the students which include medication management, monitoring immunization timing and completion of all series, injury care and referrals. Furthermore, the school nurses and athletic trainers provide cpr training to meet the new house bill that mandates all high school students need to be trained on cpr.

Premier Community Health serves employer groups and the Community by partnering with employer groups and local organizations such as churches, Community centers, senior centers, municipalities and more. Premier Community Health offers a variety of services that include biometric screenings, flu vaccinations, wellbeing workshops and challenges, lifestyle coaching and lifestyle management programs such as: nicotine cessation, empower your lifestyle, sustainable wellness and check-control-connect. Additional preventative offerings include skin screenings and prostate specific antigen (psa) screenings. The biometric screenings encompass measures of total cholesterol, high-density or low-density lipoprotein (hdl or ldl cholesterol), blood glucose, hemoglobin a1c, blood pressure and body composition measurements. Additional screenings may include: cotinine levels and/or hearing and vision screenings. Events are held at employer groups, Community partner sites or using our mobile clinic. In 2022, pch staff screened 16,831 individuals. Total screening numbers included 1,390 cholesterol/blood pressure screenings, 333 blood pressure only screenings, 3,129 lipid screenings, 4,322 a1c screenings, 295 cotinine screenings, 3,608 body composition measurements, 654 waist circumference measures, 30 hearing screenings, 617 vision screenings, 48 psa screenings, 10,055 flu shots and 676 covid vaccinations. The following participants were positively impacted through Health education initiatives and programming: 959 Health risk assessments were completed, 1,378 coaching sessions were logged, 532 attended a workshop (virtual and in-person), 282 participated in a challenge and 82 participated in a lifestyle management program. Premier Community Health attended many Health fair events in 2022 and engaged a total of 648 in Health education through look-n-learn booths.each may, Premier Community Health highlights skin cancer awareness month by offering free skin screenings to Community members in the greater dayton region. The purpose of the skin screenings is to educate and encourage the Community to learn preventative skin measures. As a result of the pandemic, a light schedule was established in 2022 and only two small skin screening events were conducted in september - 45 skin screenings were conducted in total.

Premier Community Health offers the largest program with free breast and cervical cancer screenings for low-income, uninsured and underinsured women in the greater dayton region. Funding comes from the centers for disease control through the Ohio department of Health breast and cervical cancer project (bccp), foundation grants and donations. In 2022, the program completed 818 breast services and provided case management services for 129 women who needed further diagnostic testing. Thirty two of these women were diagnosed with breast cancer, and we assisted with linking these women to additional resources for treatment. In addition, 191 women received cervical services during calendar year 2022 with 17 abnormal findings for which additional diagnostic testing and treatment was provided as needed.