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Banners Coming to Deer Park Street Poles
Soon we will be seeing "Welcome to Deer Park" Banners hanging on the street poles here in Deer Park. The Chamber of Commerce with help form the City of Deer Park will be adding 20 "welcome" banners, 10 "100th Birthday"
banners. Avista will be placing Armed Forces banners as well. All the banners will co-inside in colors of the Armed Forces banners. They will be a delight to our residents and welcome visitors from out of town or out of state. Thank you City of Deer Park for your participation and support.
Local Issue Regarding Support for a New Post Office
Chamber Members and Deer Park Community,
The Deer Park Chamber of Commerce's Issues Committee is asking for community support regarding a new United States Post Office facility for businesses and its patrons in Deer Park. With your letters of support we can make it happen.
Please send letters to:
Lloyd Wilkinson
District Manager – USPS
707 W. Main Avenue Suite 600
Spokane, WA 99299-1000
The 5th
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Congresswoman Cathy McMorris-Rogers
5th District Congress Representative, Republican
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Bob Morton
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Bob Sump
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Representative Joel Kretz
Position 2, Republican
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Your continued membership in the Chamber of Commerce is important to us at the Chamber, and we think it is also important for you. We have a wide range of benefits which add value to a Chamber membership and there are several which do not require any involvement. Let me share with you five benefits which require no
involvement and we believe they all have a direct positive effect on profits.
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Your Chamber is a business advocate, lobbyist, and "watch dog", with regards to Local, State and National Governments. Chambers have been very influential in stopping laws from being passed that were not in the best interest of the business community and this influence has had a direct positive effect on profit.
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Your Chamber is constantly promoting tourism to our community. This brings people who spend new money in the community and this has a direct positive effect on profit.
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You are listed in our Chamber directory which lets hundreds of people know that you are a supporting member of the business community. Many of these directories are mailed in our relocation packages and sent all over the country, as well as posted on our web site which is available 24 hours a day, to people and businesses
that are moving to our area. I am certain that this exposure in the directory has a direct positive effect on profit.
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Your Chamber is the front door to our community. We receive phone calls daily, have people walk in, people mail and email us requesting information, of all kinds, regarding our city and business community. The only place people know to call, is the local Chamber. This service
I am certain, has a direct positive effect on profit.
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direct positive effect on profit.
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Occupational Health Services Project
http://www.lni.wa.gov/ClaimsIns/Providers/Research/OHS/default.asp
The Occupational Health Services Project is a partnership among the Department of Labor and Industries, Valley Medical Center in Renton, and St. Luke's Rehabilitation Institute in Spokane to
expand occupational healthcare expertise and improve injured worker outcomes over the next several years.
The project preserves a worker's choice of provider, while improving communication among providers, employers, workers and the department. It makes clinical and administrative resources available when and where providers and workers need them most.
This pilot study is a community-based effort to improve occupational health services for injured workers. It will specifically test the ability to use education and incentives to decrease disability. The pilot uses occupational health leaders to increase the occupational health skills and knowledge of providers who treat injured workers.
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L&I's Focus on Reform Newsletter | Fall 2004 | Issue 2
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Shortcuts to the five high-priority projects:
"Return to work" | Claims Process Improvement | Injury Prevention
Employer Notification | Fraud and Abuse
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Hello,
We continue to make significant progress in our efforts to improve and reform the workers’ compensation system through our five high-priority projects. This second edition of L&I’s Focus on Reform newsletter gives you brief updates on each of these priority projects, which are:
Returning injured workers to their jobs as quickly as possible.
Improving the speed, fairness and quality of workers’ compensation processes.
Preventing workplace injuries and illnesses.
Involving employers earlier and more often in L&I processes.
Increasing efforts to detect and eliminate fraud and abuse by workers, employers and providers.
For more information about the high-priority projects, click on the links in each section below for fact sheets, or on this fact sheet that explains the overall effort. |
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L&I helps injured workers get back on the job
They work on construction jobs and in warehouses, on farms and in offices, for utilities and for the hospitality industry. Injured workers in many occupations benefit from return-to-work assistance.
From March 29 through August 31, early return-to-work teams in local L&I offices have helped 1,278 injured workers get back on the job sooner.
One story: A warehouse worker strained his lower back transferring boxes to a pallet. An L&I team member reviewed the company’s proposed light-duty job with the doctor and obtained the required medical release. The warehouseman worked part time for a month, gradually increasing to full-time work in the light-duty job. After two months, he
returned to his regular job full time.
Return to work speeds an injured worker’s recovery, and reduces the financial impact of a workers’ compensation claim. Read more in a recent opinion piece sent to Washington newspapers. |
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Top 100 employers assigned "own" claim manager
More than 160,000 employers are insured by L&I. Most of these employers pay relatively low workers’ compensation premiums and have only one or sometimes no workplace-injury claims a year. But some employers have more employees and claims and pay higher premium rates.
L&I has identified the 100 employers who pay the greatest dollar amount of premiums. A special L&I unit now handles all the claims for these employers.
Each employer has a single claim manager assigned to him or her. Employers get to know that person well.
Claim managers can identify safety issues such as type of injuries occurring with a specific employer.
Employers work closely with their claim manager to prevent fraud and abuse.
Claim managers and employers work together to identify better ways to get injured workers back on the job as soon as possible.
L&I is looking at ways to expand this service to other employers. |
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Injury prevention model development in full swing
We’re creating the organizational structure that will allow us to provide a package of services to help employers prevent and reduce injuries in their workplaces.
The goal is to help provide a broad range of free services — hazard recognition and control, return-to-work program information and assistance, vocational rehabilitation, claims management or establishment of a safety committee — that are less reactive and more preventative for employers and workers.
Prevention specialists in L&I offices around the state will work closely with central office account managers to meet the needs of employers. |
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Account Manager: Employers' prime contact at L&I
Our Account Managers, working in the Employer Services Unit, are becoming employers’ prime point of contact when they have business with the agency. This will improve customer service as employers ask for help from L&I or seek answers to their questions. We think an employer should have an opportunity to have a close working relationship
with their Account Manager.
Also, six Account Managers will be reviewing some accounts whose “experience factor” may increase to see if they might be good candidates for additional L&I services. (An experience factor is a method of adjusting an employer’s workers’ comp premium to reflect the actual claim experience of the account.) The goal of this pilot project is to
determine whether these employers could benefit from free L&I services – such as a safety and health consultation, a claims-management evaluation or return-to-work assistance – in order to reduce injuries and/or better control claims costs.
Meanwhile, we’ve backed away a bit from our initial plans of making a telephone call to every employer who newly opens an industrial insurance account. Many of you said your businesses were too small to need our services or that you’d rather just receive the materials that we mail to new accounts. We listened, and altered our
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Anti-fraud effort restructured and in full swing
Though the Fraud Prevention and Compliance Program has been in place only a matter of months, L&I’s efforts to combat fraud and abuse are well under way and showing results.
In the fiscal year that ended June 30, L&I’s Tax Discovery Initiative identified and collected $4.5 million in premiums that had gone unreported in the construction industry. That is a 42 percent increase over the amount of unpaid premiums the agency had identified and collected from construction employers in the three previous years.
Using recently passed legislation, the Fraud Prevention and Compliance Program is working to close loopholes that allowed employers to avoid paying premiums by closing a business and transferring assets to another company, LLC or partnership. The agency is conducting more validity checks to determine whether workplace-injury claims are
legitimate. It also shared with employers a list of the “red flags” they should look for in spotting falsified claims.
Those “red flags” are available on the fraud web site, along with a newly created fraud informational poster that can be downloaded and printed. The program is in the process
of drafting the first quarterly fraud report, updating the Legislature on the progress the agency is making in combating fraud. It will be published in December. |
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Issues Committee – This committee's goal is to seek out broader political and geographic issues and advise our members as to the effects of the issues and then to suggest a stance for the chamber.
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