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JIB Medical is continuously growing and improving.
We are in the middle of a year-long major enhancement of JIB Medical. It might take longer to get appointments, something we ask your help in having patience with, because the end results will be more than worth it.
‰Û¢‰ÛâJIB Medical already has enormous resources for you and they will expand even further when our projects are complete.
‰Û¢‰ÛâWe are installing an extensive electronic medical record system that will help improve care and make it easier for you to make appointments and to get test results. It will take some time to complete, but will be worth the effort and temporary slowdowns it requires. Unlike in many outside practices, it will not interfere with your doctor spending time with you and listening to you.
‰Û¢‰ÛâOur annual check-ups are far more extensive and worthwhile than are available elsewhere.
‰Û¢‰ÛâOur doctors have the time to spend with you for whatever is needed. They have one hour for the complete check-up and half an hour for simpler needs.
‰Û¢‰ÛâOur doctors listen to you. There are no five-minute assembly-line visits designed mainly to fill out forms on a computer, as is so common everywhere else today.
‰Û¢‰ÛâWe have dedicated doctors who really want to help you stay healthy and to treat problems as needed.
‰Û¢‰ÛâOur doctors can also become your
primary doctor if you choose.
‰Û¢‰ÛâOur CardioPrevention Program (CPP) is unique and more extensive than anywhere in helping you to avoid heart attacks, strokes and the many other diseases that result from atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries).
‰Û¢‰ÛâWe have a great program to help cope with stress, something we all struggle with.
‰Û¢‰ÛâWe have many ways to help you learn healthier ways.
‰Û¢‰ÛâWe have workshops, dieticians, a website (wellness.jibei.org), other and informative and useful booklets to help you understand how to live a healthier life.
‰Û¢‰ÛâWe have a new, effective and very pleasant program to help smokers become non-smokers again.
There is more that we will be developing in the future.
We have a new guide to all the services and policies for JIB Medical and the JIB Wellness programs. Copies will be available soon at JIB Medical.
Help Us Help You
Our goal at JIB Medical is to help all of our participants in the PHBP to live longer and healthier lives.
Healthcare is a vote for ourselves, an investment in our future because we love the person we see in the mirror and want that person to be as happy and well in the future as possible.
JIB Medical has many programs and services available to participants in our benefit plans that can make a huge difference in our lives.
We are eager and ready to help, but we cannot do it alone. We need everyone to do their part.
Participants in our benefit plans have a significantly higher level of illness and disability than the average: Way too many heart attacks, strokes, cancers and disabilities.
That is partly due to the very challenging work some do in construction, but it is also significantly due to the lifestyle culture too many follow.
There are more smokers than in most parts of society, more alcohol and drug use, more stress, more excess weight and more unhealthy lifestyles and ways of eating.
That is costing us dearly.
‰Û¢‰ÛâCosting us in enjoying far less happiness than we deserve.
‰Û¢‰ÛâCosting us in shorter lives.
‰Û¢‰ÛâCosting us in fewer years of good, healthy life.
‰Û¢‰ÛâCosting us in losses of our brothers and sisters and loved ones.
‰Û¢‰ÛâCosting us a great deal of money out of our pockets.
That does not have to be:
‰Û¢‰ÛâAlmost every heart attack and stroke is preventable.
‰Û¢‰ÛâAt least three quarters of cancers do not have to happen.
‰Û¢‰ÛâMost dementia, like Alzheimer’s, does not have to happen
‰Û¢‰ÛâMost erectile dysfunction should not occur. Viagra should be a rarely needed drug, but it surely is not.
‰Û¢‰ÛâA great deal of arthritis is preventable.
The challenge is: How can we work together to improve this record?
We can make our population the healthiest anywhere, but it must be a full partnership between those who serve our health needs and ourselves.
We at JIB have all the expertise and eagerness to help, but it will only work if all of us, as a community of people who really care about each other, decide to devote ourselves to changing our culture and pitching in to make a difference.
Every unhealthy meal, every cigar or cigarette, every excess drink, every failure to follow sensible medical care chips away at health.
We do not recognize what is happening for a long time because our bodies have ways to try to compensate. They work for a while, but eventually that fails. We begin to get sick and feel like suddenly something has happened to us, but it was long in coming,
We should take care of our bodies as well as we would a really great Harley or the house of our dreams. We would not let either one deteriorate and rust into worthlessness, yet too many of us treat our bodies like an old jalopy we do not care about.
The difference is that we can always get another bike or house, but we only get one body.
Our bodies are actually designed to last 120 years. How many of us will get even halfway there if we do not take the simple steps to give ourselves the best chance to do so?
How many of the years we do have will be good ones, free of illness and disability?
JIB Medical is very eager to help anyone who wants it.
First of all, its purpose is never to tell anyone how to live his or her life ‰ÛÒ that is each person’s choice alone.
What we offer is the accurate information required when someone needs to make a decision about important life matters.
Often people go along with group behavior because they find it difficult to go against a group’s way of doing things, even when what they really want is to take care of their health. That means we have to create a culture that encourages healthy changes instead of the opposite.
We at JIB Medical can be extremely helpful to each and every member of our community. So can each individual. You cannot only help yourself, but help your friends, family and coworkers to make positive decisions.
We can help each other to be non-smokers, to exercise more and to eat better, to end excessive drinking. For example, every time we cover up for a buddy with a drinking or drug problem, we are helping that friend get closer to disaster.
We all do better when we work with others to make positive changes. We can stop thinking that things that abuse our health are normal. We need to create a culture that is safe and healthy.
What is most important to each of us? We and our families and the jobs we need to support them.
That means we have to be healthy for what we value most.
We welcome everyone’s suggestions and participation in our wellness and medical programs.
We are here to help. Please let us help you and let each of us help each other.