The FHP Health Center offers One Stop Convenience for you and your family’s medical needs

By Rodney “RJ” Ricarte

Patient care is more than just healing. It is professionalism, personal caring, and a connection built on trust between the patient — you — and the medical provider.

You and your family will experience multiple specialties and diagnostic services mostly under one roof, at the FHP Health Center enabling a convenient, one-stop health care facility for all medical, dental, and vision needs.

Everyday, it is the goal of the FHP Health Center to ensure your medical needs are met. We offer well-baby visits to adult annual physicals. Pediatricians specialize in the physical, mental and social health of children from birth to age 18. And our adult medicine and women’s health care encompasses preventive health to the treatment of acute and chronic diseases.

FHP’s exceptional centers of care are known throughout the island: FHP Urgent Care is the only free standing UC on island for illness and injuries that are not-life threatening, but still require immediate medical care. Full Service Medical Imaging Center offers patients comprehensive diagnostic imaging including MRI, CT Scan, Ultrasound, Digital Mammography and Digital X-Ray supported by a full time Radiologist and skilled technicians. Primary Care includes pediatrics, adult medicine, and women’s health.

Home Health and Hospice (now located at the Century Plaza in Tamuning) is Medicare certified for both Hospice and Skilled Services and offers the most comprehensive treatment options available. All in the comfort of your loved one’s home.

The FHP Dental Center offers cosmetic and restorative dentistry with a combination of advanced technology. Art, science, and comfort join together to improve the smiles — and lives — of every patient.

The FHP Vision Center (now located at the Century Plaza in Tamuning) offers the latest, most fashionable eyeglasses. We have more than 1,000 top-of-the-line, quality, warranted frames and lenses. Some lenses are available in one hour. We also offer contact lenses and brand name sunglasses. Eye examinations by our experienced and professional Optometrists evaluate for cataracts, glaucoma, and other eye diseases to facilitate early detection and treatment.

Occupational Health provides comprehensive medical services for your corporate team members including physicals, drug testing, respiratory certifications, health certificates, and management of workers’ compensation cases.

The Cancer Center is operated by a U.S. board-certified Oncologist and oncology nurses trained in chemotherapy and biotherapy. We offer comprehensive and patient centered care on every aspect of your cancer journey including outpatient chemotherapy.

In partnership with Fresenius Kidney Care, Hemodialysis, or simply dialysis, is FHP’s newest service to treat patients whose kidneys are not working properly.

In addition, FHP offers a convenient, in-house, full-service pharmacy, owned and operated by MegaDrug, and full service laboratory owned and operated by Diagnostic Laboratory Services (DLS).

This quality healthcare is available to GCA members with the TakeCare GCA Employee Health Insurance Benefit. Call for an appointment, 671-646-5825, Press 1, or go to www.FHPGUAM.com.

Rodney “RJ” Ricarte is the TakeCare account executive for GCA. He can be contacted at (671) 487-7121 or rodney.ricarte@takecareasia.com.

In response to the Defense Industrial Base becoming the target of more frequent and complex cyberattacks from foreign and independent bad actors, the U.S. Department of Defense is expected to release new cybersecurity regulations in 2023 designed to enforce protection of sensitive federal contract information and controlled unclassified information that is shared by the DOD with its contractors and subcontractors, including general contractors and subcontractors performing DOD contracts for construction services.

According to the DOD chief information officer, “To protect American ingenuity and national security information, the DOD developed the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 program to reinforce the importance of DIB cybersecurity for safeguarding the information that supports and enables our warfighters.”

“The forthcoming CMMC 2.0 rulemaking presents an opportunity for ABC members and other construction industry contractors pursuing DOD contracts to examine their cybersecurity hygiene, participate in the rulemaking process and conform with changes outlined in the final rule, or else they will no longer be qualified to win DOD construction contracts,” said Ben Brubeck, ABC vice president of regulatory labor and state affairs. “In an effort to help ABC members win more work, ABC plans to engage in the forthcoming rulemaking process and provide additional educational resources for ABC member contractors to participate in the rulemaking process and comply with the DOD’s eventual cybersecurity changes.”

On Jan. 25, 2023, ABC hosted a webinar, “Cybersecurity Maturity Model Requirements for ABC Members Doing Federal Work,” with two cybersecurity experts who provided some practical tips and best practices for businesses to assess their cybersecurity readiness in advance of complying with CMMC 2.0.

Nick Decker, practice leader for the construction industry of Egnyte, an ABC Tech Alliance member, informed webinar participants that the forthcoming CMMC 2.0 policy is expected to affect $2.4 trillion worth of DOD construction contracting opportunities before 2027.

Nick Espinosa, a cybersecurity expert and founder of Security Fanatics––a company dedicated to designing custom cyberdefense strategies for medium to enterprise corporations––presented a thorough “nerd to English translation” of CMMC 2.0 and answered frequently asked questions from DOD contractors about the program and cybersecurity best practices.

Espinosa’s practical tips about how contractors can strengthen cybersecurity policies and prepare for CMMC 2.0 are also of value to contractors who perform construction work for private and federal, state and local government entities.

“CMMC 2.0 experts expect other federal agencies and even state and local governments and private customers to adopt similar cybersecurity requirements in the future,” said Brubeck. “With regulatory change on the horizon and a sharp increase in cybersecurity incidents experienced by public and private contractors, now is the time for all contractors to understand the competitive advantage and other benefits of tackling cybersecurity head on.”

ABC will be rolling out additional resources and educational opportunities on CMMC 2.0 and cybersecurity throughout 2023, including a website solely dedicated to this effort.

Business goals focus an organization on what is important. Goals drive attitude, action and accountability. The same is true for safety goals focused on leading indicators instead of a generalized statement such as “reduce the incident rate by 10%.” Ensuring the workforce is aware of the goal, sees their role and understands why it is important and how it will be measured multiplies the impact. The resources to achieve the goal must be readily available, and the workforce must be supported in the journey to attain the goal. ABC’s STEP Safety Management System helps you craft and measure these goals.

Recordkeeping and Documentation: A timely key component of the STEP Safety Management System is recordkeeping and documentation. An effective health and safety program prevents injuries and illnesses and includes an appropriate and prompt response if an injury or illness does occur, including documentation and OSHA recordkeeping. Final verification and certification of the OSHA Form 300A is performed each year in January, and it can be posted from Feb. 1 through April 30.

Four Helpful Tips for Submitting OSHA Incident Data:

• Some common errors to avoid in data submission include improper hour count, multiple classification of the same incident and recording cases that are first aid. Be sure your data is correct.

• OSHA requires all hours worked by each employee of a company, including overtime hours for field staff and hours from all office staff when recording hours.

• On the OSHA Form 300 log, there can only be one check mark in columns “G” through “I” to classify the incident as only one of the following: death; days away from work; job transfer or restriction; or other recordable case. Only the one that is most severe is checked. For example, if an incident involves both days away from work and restriction, there would be a check in only the “days away from work” column.

• The OSHA Form 300 is designed to collect statistics on injuries that are greater than first aid, so it is important to understand their definition. For help on the OSHA Form 300, visit the website.

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