Name: T. Orvin Fillman
Age: 47
Position: Exec. director, Hawaii Center for Business Health
First job: Mowing lawns at age 12
Hobbies: Reef diving, riding horses

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Hospitals work on healthier workplaces

T. Orvin Fillman heads a joint venture of Castle Medical Center, the Queens Medical Center and Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific that aims to help Hawaii employers with workers compensation cases and workplace safety.

The Hawaii Center for Business Health signed up the Oahu Transit Services Inc. on March 1 to a two-year pilot project using managed care in workers comp cases, Fillman said.

"Only 35 percent of costs in workers compensation come from medical costs," he said. "The rest is from downtime. We get people in to see specialists really quick (which cuts time away from the job)."

He comes from Castle where he was vice president of behavioral medicine sciences and chairman of the safety committee.

Fillman came to Hawaii seven years ago after working in health care with Native American populations in California.

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By Jerry Tune, Star-Bulletin