“Central Vermont Medical Center has opened an Occupational Medicine Department at the Aquatic Wellness Center on Granger Road in Berlin,” announced Judy Tarr Tartaglia, CVMC president and CEO.
“Susan Olsen, MD has been hired as Medical Director. She has a wealth of experience and understands the process,” continued Judy. “She is joined by a nurse practitioner, Sarah Britton. Together they will offer Occupational Medicine services five days a week. We are very excited to finally be able to add this specialty to CVMC.”
Dr. Olsen did undergraduate work at Smith College in Massachusetts and received her degree with secondary education certification from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. Medical School, internship and residency were all at Creighton University. She has over a decade of experience in occupational medicine, plus 15 years in emergency medicine, and eight years in family medicine.
“When dealing with worker’s compensation injuries we collaborate with a multi-disciplinary group and employers to get people back to light duty and then to their normal jobs as soon as possible,” said Dr. Olsen.
Sarah Britton, BSN, MSN earned her undergraduate degree and graduate degrees at Arkansas State University. Her clinical practice was primarily focused on Occupational Medicine and worker’s compensation.
Services offered in the Occupational Medicine Department include: primary and secondary care of work related injuries; Fit for Duty/Return to Work Exams; DOT (Dept of Transportation) Physicals; Urine/Drug Screening (federal or non-federal); OSHA respirator clearance evaluation/testing; and post offer/pre-employment physicals.
“What employers may not know,” stated Olsen,” is that in case of an injury at work, an employee can avoid going to the Emergency Department for lacerations, muscular/skeletal strains, pains etc and instead access our Occupational Medicine Department.”
Dr. Olsen lives on Lake Elmore where she and her husband, Edwin Olsen, DMD, raised their four boys.
Sarah Britton moved to Vermont from Arkansas after vacationing here every year for ten years, visiting friends. She was born in Tallahassee, Florida, but has lived all over the East Coast and also spent a year in Alaska, settling down now in Northfield.