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Free Health Screenings on March 4 – 6
[February 13, 2024] Catapult’s portable lab is returning to the Madras site on March 4 – 6. All Bright Wood associates enrolled in the Bright Wood Health and Wellness Plan (BWHWP), along with covered spouses and dependents 18 years and older, are eligible to participate. There is no cost to you, and your results are 100 percent confidential.
Step 1: Schedule Your Appointment
Catapult’s preventive health checkups are by appointment only. Appointments can be made, changed, or canceled at www.TimeConfirm.com/BrightWood
Step 2: Attend Your Appointment
Step 3: Go Over Your Results with a Catapult Nurse Practitioner
“I wish more people would take advantage of the free health screenings because they can do a lot of good prevention-wise,” Gloria Lockey, Personnel Manager, said. “A coworker and I found out we had a cholesterol issue last time Catapult was here. Because we caught it early, we’ve both got it under control now.”
Sign up: www.TimeConfirm.com/BrightWood
Note to People at the Redmond, Prineville, and Culver Sites:
Unfortunately, Bright Wood has not been able to offer this benefit to associates in Redmond, Prineville, and Culver due to patient minimums. You are welcome to get your free health screening at the Madras site.
New: Three Free Health Care Visits Per Calendar Year
[April 24, 2024] Starting May 1, participants in Bright Wood’s Health and Wellness Plan (BWHWP) are entitled to three free in-office visits per calendar year with preferred providers for:
The three visits can be with different preferred providers and a combination of physical and mental health care.
On their fourth and subsequent visits, BWHWP participants who’ve met their deductible and are seeing a preferred provider will owe the following coinsurance payment per visit:

60-Year-Old Tuition-Assistance Program Still Helping Bright Wood Families Today
[May 19, 2023] Bright Wood’s Children’s Educational Tuition Assistance Program (CETAP) provides financial assistance for post-high school education ranging from college to trade school for employees’ dependent children.
The company has distributed over $1 million in CETAP funds since the early 1960s when founder Carl Peterson established the program.
Contact Bright Wood’s Personnel Department at 541-475-7799 between 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. to learn more and apply.

Eye Safety Starts Before You Get Out of Your Car
By Jim Sanders, Safety Manager
[March 9, 2023] Bright Wood has suffered 17 recordable incidents in the last three years involving an object in someone’s eye. In other words, five to six people suffer eye injuries annually.
History shows the majority of our eye injuries occur outside. If everyone wore their eye protection as soon as they arrived at work (before leaving their vehicles) and continued wearing it until they returned to their cars after work, we’d all be a lot safer. This is in fact, Bright Wood policy.

Making Prescription Safety Glasses Affordable
[August 22, 2022] Oregon Bright Wood associates are now eligible to purchase prescription safety glasses from Walmart’s Vision Centers in Redmond and Bend at a substantial discount.
Bright Wood will pay for the prescription lenses for your new safety glasses while you are only responsible for purchasing the frames, which run from $9 up to $29.
To participate, you need to present the Walmart Vision Center with:
Call Bright Wood’s Personnel Department at 541-475-7799 with questions.
