Finding Us: This clinic is on the second floor of the Avera Fox Run Medical Plaza, located in northern Yankton, south of Highway 50 and west of Broadway Avenue. Free parking is available next to the building.
Our occupational medicine clinic offers a wide range of business health services for Yankton, SD, and nearby communities — helping employers enhance the health of their employees. Our team helps keep the workplace safe and productive — no matter the size or location of your business.
Local Occupational Medicine Services
Prevention is the best approach to health. Avera’s occupational medicine experts are focused on helping prevent disease and stay healthy with routine screenings. When caught early, many conditions can be reversed or well-managed by you and the expertise of your primary care provider.
Testing, Physicals, Treatment & More
We offer services and tests to prepare individuals for employment, help maintain employees’ health, and care for employees during recovery. We offer services from our office, and we can also bring a variety of services on-site during your business hours to your workplace in southeast South Dakota or northeast Nebraska. Services include:
- Audiology
- Electrocardiogram (EKG)
- Ergonomic injury prevention
- Drug screenings
- Health screenings including mammography
- Post-injury care
- Pre-employment exams
- Respiratory physicals
- Specialty exams, including Department of Transportation (DOT) physicals
- Spirometry screening
- Substance abuse testing, including DOT and non-DOT
- Treatment of work-related injury or illness
- Vaccinations including tuberculosis (TB), tetanus (Tdap), hepatitis B, influenza and more
Workplace Safety and WorkWell Expertise
As a WorkWell Systems quality provider, count on us to follow evidence-based protocols in the development of your business’ occupational health program. Our WorkWell certified professionals will ensure your company is equipped to:
- Provide ergonomic consultation and education.
- Create functional job descriptions.
- Utilize functional capacity evaluations to determine an employee’s ability to safely return to work after a work-related illness or injury.
- Hire people physically qualified to do the job through pre-work.
- Reduce your company’s liability for injury.
- Teach employees how to safely perform their jobs, avoid injury and illness, and stay at work through an injury, illness or disability.
- Conduct audiology tests to assess noise levels throughout your plant or business.
Employee Well-Being
Your business may also qualify for corporate discounts to the Avera Sacred Heart Wellness Center, a benefit you can directly pass onto your employees for their health and well-being.
Department of Avera Sacred Heart Hospital
