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Behavioral Medicine Associates is recognized as the leader in behavioral healthcare for injured work

08/20/2020

Let's Not Forget

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken up much of the attention and focus of healthcare providers throughout New York State. However, workers continue to be injured and are suffering due to accidents, injuries and traumas that are not related to COVID-19.

Workplace accidents have not stopped due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The attention focused on COVID-19 has unfortunately shifted attention away from these workers and the consequences of their injuries.

Workers continue to experience chronic pain as a result of injuries they sustained both before and after the pandemic. Many workers in New York continued working during the pandemic and many were injured in situations unrelated to the virus.

Workers continue to be injured; they require and deserve the attention of their treating doctors as well as their attorneys in order to provide the necessary evaluation and care. The psychological impact of workplace injuries remains a critical issue in the health, safety, and well-being of workers injured “on-the-job.”

It is important to continue to focus on victims of COVID-19, however, it is also critical that we do not forget or diminish the impact of workplace accidents on all other workers.

Transit workers who have been severely impacted by COVID-19 also continue to be traumatized by workplace situations that are independent of the virus. Train operators still contend with individuals committing su***de by jumping in front of their trains. Bus operators continue to deal with unruly and aggressive/violent passengers. Station agents continue to be traumatized, harassed and threatened by passengers.

Behavioral Medicine Associates has been receiving referrals of workers who have been injured while at work with cases unrelated to COVID-19. These workers suffer physically, emotionally, psychologically and behaviorally and require behavioral evaluation and treatment.

Many workers have dual concerns; bus operators who are spat upon are fearful of not only HIV and hepatitis C but also COVID-19. Many injured workers whose direct injury was not related to COVID-19 have concerns about the virus as a result of the subsequent medical care they received. Workers who were treated at hospitals during the height of the pandemic are fearful they may have contracted the disease while at the hospital. Workers who have been assaulted on the job have renewed concerns about not only their physical injuries but also the possibility of contracting the virus from the assailant.

It is critical that the workers compensation community be mindful of the thousands of workers who are injured in New York. Whether these injuries are a result of COVID-19 or other factors they need to be assessed for the psychological impact of their injuries. Regardless of the source of the injury, direct and sensitive care is needed with a focus on the emotional and behavioral damage resulting from the accident and injury.

Behavioral Medicine Associates provides comprehensive evaluation and treatment of injured workers regardless of the nature of their injury. BMA treats both the consequential impact of physical injuries as well as the direct effect of trauma on workers in New York State.

08/08/2020

The Psychological Implications of Working in a COVID-19 Environment

New York City was the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic for many months. Millions of New Yorkers were working at jobs at which they were susceptible to the COVID-19 virus. These include transit workers, health and hospital workers, home health care workers and correction officers. All of these workers were diligent in performing their responsibilities while at the same time being at high risk for the COVID-19 virus. Many of these workers contracted the virus, became sick and needed to quarantine; many also suffered significant debilitating physical injuries as a result of having the virus.

Many other workers who did not contract the virus were exposed to traumatic situations in which co-workers and others suffered from the devastating effects of COVID-19.

All of these workers were at a significantly elevated risk due to the nature and extent of their work as well as the environment in which they were working. All of these workers reported psychologically devastating incidents in which their co-workers became sick and died. Many were directly involved in the treatment of COVID-19 patients and witnessed the horror of this virus.

Thousands of workers who experienced daily exposure to these horrific conditions have developed post-traumatic symptoms in addition to contracting the virus itself.

For these workers it is critical they receive behavioral healthcare to enable them to cope, move forward with their lives and resolve the traumatic difficulties they are experiencing.

Without direct behavioral care many of these workers will not be able to return and will be psychologically paralyzed by the experience of COVID-19.

Behavioral Medicine Associates continues to treat these workers and provide them with the necessary skills, techniques, insights and understandings they require. Many of these patients have become socially isolated and the only support they receive is from their behavioral health care provider.

In order to maintain support and improve the mental health of New York City workers, psychological treatment is necessary. Behavioral Medicine Associates will continue to serve the workers of New York and continue to provide them with effective, evidence-based, supportive care.

07/16/2020

COVID-19: Initial Assessment of the Behavioral Impact

BMA has been evaluating and treating workers who have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Health and hospital workers, transit workers, correction officers, emergency medical technicians, first responders and direct health care personnel have served on the front lines of this “war.” Many of these workers have contracted COVID-19 while on the job. Many others have faced the horror and destructive power of this virus and have developed symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. An emergency room physician described a scene in which an elderly grandparent was bidding goodbye to his seven grandchildren on an iPad, all of whom were crying hysterically and deeply affected by the inability to connect physically with their dying grandfather. This physician has nightmares of this scene, which, unfortunately has been repeated thousands of times over. Healthcare workers have assisted patients with their final goodbyes, holding their hands when no one else was available. The horror described has had a lasting and significant impact on the healthcare workers assigned to their care.

Over 120 transit workers in New York City have died as a result of contracting COVID-19. Co-workers have watched their colleagues wither and die as a result of this virus. They have been stressed by the need to continue providing transportation for their fellow New Yorkers while also understanding that the transit system has been a “petri dish” for the virus. In addition, the number of assaults on transit workers has increased exponentially and the number of bus operators, conductors, train operators, platform workers and station agents who have been harassed, assaulted and otherwise demeaned by the public has resulted in the need for continuing treatment of many of these workers.

Correction officers have contracted COVID-19 while working in state institutions and have been suffering due to the close confinement they have with the incarcerated. Correction officers are fearful of contracting the disease and many have developed anxiety and depression. Every morning when correction officers need to report to their jobs, they contemplate whether this is the day they are about to get sick.

All of these workers share one common theme: they have been impacted by this virus or they have contracted it themselves.

BMA is proud to serve the healthcare heroes who have worked tirelessly to treat and care for New Yorkers who have been impacted by COVID-19. All of the essential workers who continue to report for duty during this pandemic deserve our thanks, appreciation, as well as the necessary psychological and behavioral care needed to help bring them back to some semblance of their emotional state before this virus hit New York.

The healthcare providers at BMA continue to work tirelessly to help these workers adjust, cope and make peace with the situation. We will continue to provide quality care on a consistent basis so that these workers have the necessary treatment.

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Friday	8am - 4pm

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Serving injured workers for over 35 years

Behavioral Medicine Associates (BMA) of New York pioneered the integration of behavioral health care with primary medical treatment.

Behavioral Medicine Associates have New York State board authorized workers' compensation psychologists and therapists who provide evaluation and treatment for injured workers suffering from fear, stress, anxiety disorders (post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), panic disorder, and specific phobias) depression, sleep disorders, adjustment disorders, anger issues, psychosocial problems, relationship issues, caregiver distress, difficulty coping with disability, injury and chronic pain as a part of the workers' compensation insurance program. BMA psychologists also specialize in treating individuals suffering from these problems as a result of a motor vehicle or car accident. In these cases we accept no-fault insurance.

We have offices located throughout the New York City Metropolitan Area (Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx and Staten Island), Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk Counties), Westchester County (White Plains), Rockland County (Nanuet and Spring Valley), Orange County (Newburgh), Erie County (Buffalo), Niagra County (Niagara Falls) and Ulster County (Kingston and Middletown). In Pennsylvania we have offices in Delaware County (Glenolden & Chester), Northeast and South Philadelphia, Berks County (Wyomissing & Reading) and Lehigh County (Allentown).