Internationally-Recognized Occupational Health and Nursing Leader Joins Axion Health Advisory Board

    DENVER, CO, April 21, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Axion HealthTM (www.axionhealth.com), a workforce health protection, emergency preparedness and clinical response provider, today is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Bonnie Rogers, a prominent leader, best-practice authority and clinician in the field of Occupational Health Nursing, to the Axion Health National Advisory Board (http://www.axionhealth.com/company/advisory-board-company). Dr. Rogers will provide consultative input and feedback for Axion Health and will be instrumental in guiding and refining best-practices and clinical algorithms for the Company's ReadySet Employee Health and Occupational Health Electronic Health Record Management software and services.

Bonnie Rogers, DrPH, COHN-S, LNCC, FAAN brings more than 30 years of experience in occupational health nursing to the Axion Health team. Dr. Rogers is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in occupational health, worker health promotion, and occupational health nursing. Dr. Rogers is associate professor and Director of the NIOSH-supported North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Center, and the Director of the Occupational Health Nursing Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School Of Public Health. Dr. Rogers directs one of the nation's top occupational health nursing programs. She is Vice President of the International Commission on Occupational Health, a Board member of the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics, and chair of the NIOSH Board of Scientific Counselors. She is former President of the American Association of Occupational Health Nursing (AAOHN) and Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics.

Dr. Rogers received her Doctor of Public Health degree (DrPH) in Environmental Health Sciences/Occupational Health Nursing, as well as her Masters of Public Health (MPH) with concentration in Public Health Administration and Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. She has a Bachelor of Science - Nursing (BSN), from George Mason University, a Nursing Diploma from Washington Hospital Center School of Nursing and has certification as an Adult Nurse Practitioner and an Occupational Health Nurse-Specialist. She also is a certified legal nurse consultant, as a case manager, and is Myers Briggs certified. Dr. Rogers is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the American Association of Occupational Health nurses, and is Editor of the Journal of Legal Nurse Consulting. Dr. Rogers has practiced as a public health nurse and an occupational health nurse clinician for employee health services as a practitioner, and is an educator and researcher in occupational health. Dr. Rogers has conducted numerous occupational health research studies and published more than 175 articles, two textbooks in occupational health nursing, among many other scholarly achievements, and has delivered more than 450 presentations to national and international audiences. She has designed and delivered many graduate level and continuing education courses, served on numerous national and international committees and task forces, and has held offices for local, state and national occupational health and safety organizations.

To mark National Occupational Health Nursing week, April 17-23rd, Dr. Rogers has written an article entitled "The Beating Heart of a Healthy Workplace," celebrating the importance of Occupational Health Nurses to our workforce and our communities. To read the article, please visit the Axion Health News Center at http://www.axionhealth.com/headlines/164-employee-health-editorial-by-bonnie-rogers-the-beating-heart-of-a-healthy-workplace.

About Axion Health, Inc.
Axion Health, headquartered in Denver, Colorado, helps its customers protect their personnel, communities and businesses against health hazards, disasters, dangerous exposures and safety concerns through Web-based workforce health protection, response and recovery programs. Employee Health Services and Occupational Health programs include software and services for Clinical Readiness and Response to emergencies, Routine Health, such as workforce immunization, and Medical Surveillance programs for hazards and exposures. Axion Health also helps manage Occupational or Employee Health clinics with an integrated system for paperless charts and electronic health records for workers. Designed by leading occupational, environmental, and toxicology specialists, Axion Health Web-based programs help guard the availability of critical personnel, manage compliance and regulatory requirements and create cost, time and resource efficiencies through automated, electronic tools and streamlined process enhancement. Axion Health Programs also help ensure quality of care and a focus on disease and injury prevention by incorporating clinical decision support and real-time, role-based data sharing and reporting. Axion Health provides software, services and consultation for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), large and small health systems and hospitals across the country, as well as Fortune 500 companies and other government agencies. For more information, visit www.axionhealth.com or call (toll free) 1-877-770-3073.

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