Wellness Counseling. Willow Valley encourages residents to remain healthy. Programs promoting wellness will be offered providing exercise, as well as nutrition and lifestyle counseling. Other programs, such as blood pressure and weight clinics, will be offered by Willow Valley.
Wellness Counseling. Any employee involved in a traumatic incident or an incident involving the use of deadly force will have the opportunity to meet with a professional counselor following a trauma incident or an incident for the purpose of debriefing/counseling. The debriefing sessions(s) shall be covered by the doctor/patient privilege and information disclosed in these session(s) shall be confidential and not be attainable or useable by the City. The professional debriefing counseling will be provided through workers compensation, the City’s employee assistance program or the City’s health insurance program. If a qualified counselor(s) is not available through workers’ compensation, the employee assistance program or the employee’s health provider, the employee may request authorization from the City to choose the counselor(s) the employee wants to visit. Any reasonable cost of pre-approved professional debriefing counseling not paid through workers’ compensation or the City’s health insurance program will be paid by the City. The City reserves the right to determine what constitutes reasonable cost. It is understood and agreed that this provision does not negate the City’s right to require an employee to submit to a fitness-for-duty examination by a professional counselor of the City’s choosing as a condition of return to work following a trauma incident or incident involving the use of deadly force.
