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Workability Program
The Workability Program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon) facilitates optimal, cost-effective care to the injured worker as part of a collaborative team that includes the workers, employer, adjustor, case manager, and provider. We strive to maintain or restore injured workers' function to safely enable them to stay at work or return in a timely fashion.
Our services
- Providing the injured worker with information about the benefits, supports and responsibilities within the worker's compensation benefit system
- Enhancing communication among employees, their supervisors and insurance carriers, and human resources during and after a work-related injury
- Coordinating and monitoring appropriate transitional employment/alternate duty
- Providing education and assistance regarding the disability management process to managers and supervisors
Contact a Workability Care Manager if you:
- have been injured while working at DHMC
- have questions regarding workers' compensation benefits
- need assistance with returning to work or staying at work with a disability or injury
- are a manager or supervisor and have questions about workers' compensation benefits or employer and employee rights and responsibilities
- need help understanding or managing your medical capability in your work environment