Keep COVID-19 from Entering Your Facility - HAN
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Critical Step 1
Keep COVID-19 from entering your facility
- Follow visitation guidance from CDPH, IDPH, and CMS
- Ensure that visitors who have COVID-like symptoms or active infections are excluded from the building
- Actively screen visitors, residents, and staff for symptoms of COVID-19
- Follow staff testing and exclusion guidance from CDPH, IDPH, and CMS
- Ensure that staff sick leave policies are flexible and non-punitive
- Request that contractors, students, and volunteers provide documentation of a negative COVID-19 PCR test according to the required frequency outlined by CDPH, IDPH, and CMS
- Implement universal masking for everyone in the facility
- Encourage vaccination for all staff, visitors, and residents
Tools and Resources:
- Visitation & Offsite Outings
- Nursing Home Visitation - COVID-19 (revised version released November 12, 2021)
- CMS memo covering visitation requirements and parameters
- LTC Visitation Appointment Schedule & Visitor Register (released August 17, 2020)
- IDPH template for facilities to record visit information, including visitor contact information
- LTCF Risk Assessment for Residents who go to Appointments or Outings (IDPH)
- Risk assessment to be used to determine whether transmission-based precautions should be implemented upon return after a resident leaves the facility
- Nursing Home Visitation - COVID-19 (revised version released November 12, 2021)
- Healthcare Personnel (HCP) Symptom Screening & Return to Work Guidelines
- Criteria for Return to Work for Healthcare Personnel with SARS-CoV-2 Infection (Interim Guidance)
- CDC guidance outlining the symptom-based and test-based strategies for determining when HCPs can return to work
- Criteria for Return to Work for Healthcare Personnel with SARS-CoV-2 Infection (Interim Guidance)
- Keep COVID-19 Out! (06:04)
- CDC video with tips on what frontline LTCF staff can do to protect residents and coworkers from COVID-19
LTFC Reporting
How To Report COVID-19 Cases To CDPH:
**NEW** Updated CDPH SNF Case Report Form
1. Report lab-confirmed resident and staff cases within 24 hours.
2. Facilities with no new cases must report at least once a week, by Thursday 12 pm (Noon).
3. Effective immediately facilities should not longer submit weekly facility summary reports, enter cases in the Case & Cluster form, or enter cases into the Breakthrough Case Report Form.