Stay-at-Work Coalition Focusing on Doctors

By Greg Jones, Western Bureau ChiefA coalition of stakeholders is trying to persuade New Mexico doctors that working within restrictions improves recovery better than time away from the job. The effort is part of a campaign that dates back to 2009, when a group of insurers, lawyers and employers formed the New Mexico at Work Partnership to extol the virtues of programs that make light duty or modified positions available to injured workers. Kathy Diaz, executive director of the Food Industry Self Insurance Fund and chairwoman of the partnership, said she's been focused on transitional empl...