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Tyson Foods plans to establish health centers for employees at several of its plants, including some that have seen outbreaks of COVID-19, the company announced Sept. 3.
Scheduled to open next year, the seven clinics will be operated by Marathon Health, a company that specializes in on-site health services for employers. It will offer mostly preventive services, such as screenings for conditions like hypertension and diabetes, free or at reduced cost to Tyson workers and their dependents.
The new clinics are intended to supplement Tyson’s care for workplace-related injuries by focusing more on employees’ overall health. Tyson recently created the position of chief medical officer and beefed up its in-house medical staff to help improve COVID testing.
“One of the things that we found is our team members would come to the nursing staff at the facility, but not with an occupational health issue,” Tom Brower, Tyson’s senior vice president of health and safety, told Forbes. They were seeking help with larger, overall health issues, Brower said.
One of the clinic’s locations will be the Tyson pork plant in Storm Lake, Iowa, which has had 591 employees test positive for COVID-19, with one death. More than 10,000 Tyson employees have contracted the coronavirus, according to the Food & Environment Reporting Network.
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