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Cuting accidents - USA - Sleep apnea screening & treatment program saves costs
Schneider National white paper reveals it
Green Bay,Wis,USA --The Trucker -20 Oct 2006: -- Schneider National has published a white paper that reveals its sleep apnea screening and treatment program has generated a return on investment in the form of savings on medical costs, accident reduction, reduced turnover and increased productivity... According to the newsletter of the Truckload Carriers Association, the report drew the following conclusions: ... ... Wendy Sullivan, Schneider's occupational health manager, said that Schneider had long been investigating ways to cost-effectively diagnose and treat sleep apnea. In the past three years, the truckload giant has "recognized a trend in those medical records that sleep apnea had a lot to do with fatigue and hypertension, heart disease and diabetes. With 15,000 drivers, we're scaling this effort and learning as we go. With this sort of return on investment we decided that we're going to pay for the cost of this study and CPAP," the TCA report noted...
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