This customizable document, Pre-Employment Physical Examination, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Human Resources Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry’s leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

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Here is some sample content from Pre-Employment Physical Examination:

	PURPOSE: To provide uniform guidelines for ensuring all employees in the hospital are free from communicable disease or any other diseases, which may be debilitating or render the employee not able to perform his/her assigned duties. To ensure personnel employed have been determined physically capable to perform their assigned duties. POLICY: Preplacement physical examination is mandatory for all personnel employed at the hospital. Preplacement physical examination shall be defined as a medical examination by a licensed physician designated by the hospital to perform specific examinations,...
Second excerpt:
	...Employee Health Program. Persons with contagious diseases or with physical conditions which prevent them from performing functions that are essential to the job may be excluded from employment. The hospital will give individualized consideration to the capabilities of disabled persons to perform particular jobs in order to ascertain whether reasonable accommodations can be made to enable an otherwise qualified disabled person to perform the functions of that job. RESPONSIBILITIES: The...