 Hi, my name is Sharon Nelson, HR manager responsible for talent acquisition for the City of Columbia. Talent in the City is our effort to highlight and showcase the departments with the City of Columbia, the department's impact players, as well as the talent who make the City run every single day. These impact players and departments oftentimes don't get the spotlight that they deserve, but without them the City of Columbia would not run as a beautifully oiled machine that it is. Well, the Employee Health Clinic here houses myself as the employee health nurse where I take on new applicants, walk them through the new employee applicant process, the health screen, the drug screen process, and once they complete that they go through the City of Columbia. And then myself, I will see them again, hopefully not, if they endure an injury. So there's that part, there's that facet of the health clinic here. And then the main star of the show is the Employee Health Clinic here itself, where if you choose when you come on board with the City of Columbia or her new employee, you're able to use this facility here as your primary care and they offer all the different things that you would with a regular doctor. Maintain your blood pressure issues if there's IPVs, if your child needs a sports physical, any possible furls out for an x-ray, any additional care like that. And one of the big purposes of the clinic is to also maintain some of the much needed physicals, first of all, whether it's our annual police force or our fire force, they come in and have their annual physicals not here. So my role for the City of Columbia is their occupational health nurse. So again, on the front end, before they become an employee with the City, I'll go through the health screening and the drug screen process. Once they've completed that, everything's satisfactory and they're a healthy and compliant employee. That moves up to human resources and they go from there. And they become an employee with the City of Columbia. And the other role that I take on is workman's confidence situation. So if you're injured on the job and you're an employee with the City of Columbia, hopefully you'll come see me first. I help initiate that the initial care for that employee, get them set up with a provider for the initial evaluation and treatment. I collaborate with the workman's comp adjusters, the doctors, nurses, nurse care managers, physical therapists, other health care professionals to help achieve the highest level of recovery that we can for those employees that were injured and help them kind of acclimate and get back into their role with their team and in the job force, the City. The clinic has been very useful to me and my family here at the City for the last five years. Not only do I use it, but I am able to take my children there as well. I don't use it as a primary care facility. I do have a primary care position. However, when I'm feeling bad or the allergy is acting up, I can just run over there and get seen almost immediately. Our physician's assistant is really good. Our nurse, Dan Lowe, he's excellent and you get medications for free, which we've been able to enjoy and out of work, notes if we need them. So it's full service. And if they believe that we need to see another doctor for one reason or another, then we generally do that. But I see my primary care physician once a year for my regular physical. But other than that, I attend, I go to the clinic, the City clinic. In order to go to the clinic, you have to be signed up with the PIVA system with benefits. So you would have to wait until open enrollment before you're able to use the clinic. That's an important thing. I don't think that our employees use the City clinic as much as they could. I wish that they would use it more. I wish that they saw the benefit like I do in using it. But I think that enough do that we're able to still offer the service to all of our employees. The relationship between the City of Columbia and doctor's care is that doctor's care has that contract in order to do the well care for the City of Columbia's employees once they take on the insurance that the City of Columbia offers them. And so that means, you know, as you come on board, if you have a cold, if you have some need for some medication or against the blood pressure checks, the City of Columbia has that relationship with doctor's care to where you can come in and utilize this clinic here as your primary care. The staff here is employed by doctor's care. So there's a wonderful staff at the front desk that gets you checked in. There's several nurses here that work towards assisting the doctors on all the normal things you would find in a doctor's office. The vital signs that are taken, the documentation of why their visit is there, the assistance doctors would get everything kind of prepared for even more continued care. So that relationship with the City of Columbia and doctor's care has been wonderful for sure. It is an amazing benefit that City employees have to utilize. If you do take on the insurance that the City has to offer, you can come in for some urgent care needs. We also offer health and wellness options there. The Drew Wellness Center is also a part of that. So we have a staff that can, if that's an additional cost there, but if you take part in that, there's programs within that that they can utilize as well. We have nutritionists that also are part of that plan as well. For more information about this position and its department, please visit www.columbiasc.gov.