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We, at Occupational Medicine of Northwest Ohio are
dedicated to helping companies develop and maintain
safe and healthy workplaces and healthy employees.
dedicated to helping companies develop and maintain
safe and healthy workplaces and healthy employees.
Our Clinical Practice is devoted exclusively to the
practice of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
practice of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
What is Occupational Medicine?
Among its many responsibilities, two of Occupational
medicine’s primary functions are:
1) Prevention and management of occupational and
environmental injury, illness and disability.
2) Promotion of health and productivity of workers.
The costs of work-related illness and injuries to the
worker, to employers, as well as to society have created
a need for physicians well-versed in the recognition,
treatment, and care of such work-related issues. The
proper treatment and rapid return to health and
employment of an injured worker is a fundamental
concept and very important to us at Occupational
Medicine of Northwest Ohio.
Among its many responsibilities, two of Occupational
medicine’s primary functions are:
1) Prevention and management of occupational and
environmental injury, illness and disability.
2) Promotion of health and productivity of workers.
The costs of work-related illness and injuries to the
worker, to employers, as well as to society have created
a need for physicians well-versed in the recognition,
treatment, and care of such work-related issues. The
proper treatment and rapid return to health and
employment of an injured worker is a fundamental
concept and very important to us at Occupational
Medicine of Northwest Ohio.
| Our Motto is “Healthy, Active, and On the Job.” |
Merris T. Young, MD is the owner and medical director
of Occupational Medicine of Northwest Ohio. He has
more than 19 years of clinical experience in the
practice of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
His past work experience includes serving as the plant
medical director for a refinery and for a meat packing
plant. He has also provided on site medical services
for more than twenty other companies and plants. The
occupationally related focus of these numerous work
sites has varied from light to heavy manufacturing,
metal working, large volume data entry, refineries,
meat packing, electronics, chemicals, and the
semiconductor industry, giving him a wide variety of
experience with many types of work situations and
their associated risks to the workers.
His personal values, include a good work ethic, a belief
in dressing and acting professionally, and providing
high quality and ethical medical service, while
providing principle based leadership to the people with
whom he works and serves. He is an active participant
with the local safety council. He periodically gives
educational talks to local companies and civic groups
on a variety of subjects.
Dr. Young’s philosophy has always been to match the
person to the job, and that a person should be
expected to perform productive work as long as it is
safe and reasonable to do so. It is indeed a rare
situation that an individual is totally incapacitated.
Finding a good job fit helps keep people productive and
aids in avoiding injuries. When possible the job should
be modified to fit the person, i.e. ergonomics.
Individuals can also be introduced to the work, or
reintroduced to the work situation if injuries are
already present, to allow for acclimation to the work’s
tasks. The use of early intervention can detect injuries
prior to the development of permanent damage and
can allow for quicker, if not more complete,
recoveries. Using cost effective, but aggressive,
treatment interventions can also result in speedier and
more complete recoveries. These strategies can help
reduce worker’s compensation costs, by decreasing
injury duration, the degree of permanent impairment,
and by decreasing the total number of injuries as well.
Dr. Young has experience of working in many different
clinics and a wide variety of clinical settings. He has
found that having an efficient and productive team is
necessary to attain one’s goals. In order to have such
a team, it is imperative that everyone in the group has
the same goals, so that the team can work together to
achieve them. Good communication is the tool that
binds the team together and allows it to perform work
efficiently and productively. Such team work and good
communication is what allows the team to effectively
use outside services to function as an extension of the
team.
In addition to providing quality and efficient medical
services, Dr. Young also functions as a Medical Review
Officer and performs Independent Medical
Examinations (IME’s). He also performs other
evaluations on employees, including chart reviews,
second opinions, impairment ratings, and ability to
work examinations. Dr. Young has achieved
certification as a Medical Review Officer and also
became certified by the American Board of
Independent Medical Examiners.
He has obtained the status of fellow in
American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians
and in the
American College of Occupational and Environmental
Medicine,
the pre-eminent physician organization in the field of
occupational medicine. He has performed hundreds of
onsite visits to various companies and types of
industries. He has performed ergonomic job
assessments, both as part of an ergonomics team and
independently. He has assisted several companies in
developing and/or reviewing and updating general and
emergency response protocols and standing orders.
He is board certified in the field of Internal Medicine
and has completed most of the basic curriculum in the
Medical College of Wisconsin’s Masters in Public Health
(MPH) degree program, which has given him a greater
appreciation of the “Gestalt” of Occupation and
Environmental Medicine.
We pride ourselves about our work. We have learned
from clinical experience that having a productive and
pleasant place to work is literally "no accident"; it is
something that can be achieved only through an
organization’s and its members’ ongoing efforts.
of Occupational Medicine of Northwest Ohio. He has
more than 19 years of clinical experience in the
practice of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
His past work experience includes serving as the plant
medical director for a refinery and for a meat packing
plant. He has also provided on site medical services
for more than twenty other companies and plants. The
occupationally related focus of these numerous work
sites has varied from light to heavy manufacturing,
metal working, large volume data entry, refineries,
meat packing, electronics, chemicals, and the
semiconductor industry, giving him a wide variety of
experience with many types of work situations and
their associated risks to the workers.
His personal values, include a good work ethic, a belief
in dressing and acting professionally, and providing
high quality and ethical medical service, while
providing principle based leadership to the people with
whom he works and serves. He is an active participant
with the local safety council. He periodically gives
educational talks to local companies and civic groups
on a variety of subjects.
Dr. Young’s philosophy has always been to match the
person to the job, and that a person should be
expected to perform productive work as long as it is
safe and reasonable to do so. It is indeed a rare
situation that an individual is totally incapacitated.
Finding a good job fit helps keep people productive and
aids in avoiding injuries. When possible the job should
be modified to fit the person, i.e. ergonomics.
Individuals can also be introduced to the work, or
reintroduced to the work situation if injuries are
already present, to allow for acclimation to the work’s
tasks. The use of early intervention can detect injuries
prior to the development of permanent damage and
can allow for quicker, if not more complete,
recoveries. Using cost effective, but aggressive,
treatment interventions can also result in speedier and
more complete recoveries. These strategies can help
reduce worker’s compensation costs, by decreasing
injury duration, the degree of permanent impairment,
and by decreasing the total number of injuries as well.
Dr. Young has experience of working in many different
clinics and a wide variety of clinical settings. He has
found that having an efficient and productive team is
necessary to attain one’s goals. In order to have such
a team, it is imperative that everyone in the group has
the same goals, so that the team can work together to
achieve them. Good communication is the tool that
binds the team together and allows it to perform work
efficiently and productively. Such team work and good
communication is what allows the team to effectively
use outside services to function as an extension of the
team.
In addition to providing quality and efficient medical
services, Dr. Young also functions as a Medical Review
Officer and performs Independent Medical
Examinations (IME’s). He also performs other
evaluations on employees, including chart reviews,
second opinions, impairment ratings, and ability to
work examinations. Dr. Young has achieved
certification as a Medical Review Officer and also
became certified by the American Board of
Independent Medical Examiners.
He has obtained the status of fellow in
American Academy of Disability Evaluating Physicians
and in the
American College of Occupational and Environmental
Medicine,
the pre-eminent physician organization in the field of
occupational medicine. He has performed hundreds of
onsite visits to various companies and types of
industries. He has performed ergonomic job
assessments, both as part of an ergonomics team and
independently. He has assisted several companies in
developing and/or reviewing and updating general and
emergency response protocols and standing orders.
He is board certified in the field of Internal Medicine
and has completed most of the basic curriculum in the
Medical College of Wisconsin’s Masters in Public Health
(MPH) degree program, which has given him a greater
appreciation of the “Gestalt” of Occupation and
Environmental Medicine.
We pride ourselves about our work. We have learned
from clinical experience that having a productive and
pleasant place to work is literally "no accident"; it is
something that can be achieved only through an
organization’s and its members’ ongoing efforts.
Occupational Medicine
of Northwest Ohio
of Northwest Ohio
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