The Division of Employee Health provides services to the Employees of East Carolina University in the following areas:

• Screening and immunizations to meet OSHA and other requirements (mainly for health care workers).
• Medical evaluations for infectious exposures.
• Medical evaluation and treatment for work-related illness, injuries or other exposures.

Injuries at Work:

• Notify your supervisor.
• Your supervisor will contact the Office of Environmental Health and Safety, which administers the Workers Compensation Program, 328-6166.
• The Office of Environmental Health and Safety will arrange for your medical care.
• If you have a life-threatening emergency, go to PCMH Emergency Department and have your supervisor report the incident to the Office of Environmental Health and Safety ASAP.

Return to Work/Fit for Duty Evaluations

Human Blood/Body Fluid Exposure:

• Report Immediately!
• If source patient is HIV positive, preventive treatment should be given as soon as possible, or within 24 hours.
• Call 744-2070, or 744-3545 during normal work hours (8-5).

After-Hours Exposure at ECU:

Step #1: - Risk Assessment

Have the clinic attending physician or head nurse fill out the Risk Assessment Referral Form. If there is a history of HIV infection of significant risk factors you may be be referred to the Emergency Department.

Step #2: - Bloodwork

The clinic personnel needs to obtain bloodwork on the source patient (HIV, Hep B Surface Antigen and Antibody, Hep C Antibody and RPR).

Step #3: - Report to Employee Health

Report to Employee Health as soon as possible the next working day between 8am - 5pm.

After-Hours Exposure at PCMH:

• If the exposure occurs at PCMH after hours, consult the nursing coordinator at PCMH to initiate the after-hours referral process.
• You may call 744-8500 to review the procedure or consult the ECU Infection Control Manual.

Training and Education

We offer training information and resources for employee health which can be found in our Employee Health section of our training and education webpage.

Forms & Documents
A full listing of our employee health forms and documents can be found in our Employee Health of our forms and documents webpage.