Hanford Occupational Health Services Contract

Department of Energy

As a teaming partner in the Occupational Health Services Contract at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Hanford Site in Washington State, HPMC performs a significant amount of work as an embedded subcontractor. Known as AdvanceMed Hanford (AMH), this contract requires the delivery of comprehensive occupational health care services to contractor, subcontractor, and federal employees working at the Hanford Site. Since contract start up in 2004, HPMC has never failed to achieve 100% of its performance fee.

The 586 square mile Hanford Site, located in southeast Washington State, was established in the 1940s as a plutonium production complex for the Manhattan Project. Throughout Hanford’s 50 years of operation, byproducts of plutonium production have accumulated to become this country’s largest environmental cleanup project.

Approximately 11,000 personnel currently work on or near the Hanford Site. These personnel are employed by a diverse group of site prime contractors, numerous site major subcontractors and DOE. Examples of cleanup work scope ongoing on site include the following:

  • facility decontamination, decommissioning and destruction,
  • stabilization and storage of nuclear materials in a variety of forms,
  • processing and storage of radioactive, chemical and/or mixed wastes,
  • soil and groundwater remediation involving a variety of radiological and chemical waste streams.

HPMC’s work scope includes:

  • Executive Management – HPMC performs in the role of Deputy Principal Manager, providing direct support to the Principal Manager in support of the overall contract.
  • Medical Surveillance – includes design and execution of specific surveillance programs to address emerging issues, maintenance of existing programs, management of a site-wide Employee Job Task Analysis instrument, collecting essential baseline information on workers, management of medical records systems, and responsiveness to changing requirements/new programs resulting from site remediation activities.
  • Legacy Health Management – includes the analysis, trending, and reporting of health data of both current and past Hanford workers.
  • Medical Records Management –  includes all functions and aspects of maintaining complete and up-to-date medical records, both hard copy records and electronic records. Record retrieval and file storage is part of the overall management of medical records.
  • Quality Assurance –  includes development and maintenance of the overall quality assurance plan, internal assessment program, and continuous quality improvement processes.
  •  Mission Assurance and Accreditation – includes development and deployment of the organizational strategic plan, leadership development, and a comprehensive survey program. Accreditation includes the achievement and maintenance of a national accreditation through the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC).
  • Health Education and Wellness –  includes the development of both broad-based health education programs and courses for workers at a level specific to the environment in which they work. Programs developed and implemented include smoking cessation, weightloss, fitness, individual coaching, and many other activities related to achieving and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
  • Industrial Rehabilitation – includes work conditioning, strength training, and other activities focused on assisting workers in achieving a level of strength and/or fitness necessary to the performance of their job duties.
  • Emergency Preparedness –  encompasses maintaining plans and programs designed to respond to emergency incidents occurring at the Hanford site as well as establishing/maintaining coordination with local and state agencies that have a role in emergency response.
  • Behavioral Health Services – includes a broad-based Employee Assistance Program, Fitness for Duty evaluations, Human Reliability testing and evaluations, and training programs.

For more information on Hanford: www.hanford.gov