issued new quarantine guidance for employees who have significant exposure to COVID-19. Exposure is defined as longer than 15 minutes and within six feet without appropriate personal protective equipment. Employees other than critical health care workers are required to quarantine for 10 days with a significant exposure. They should be tested for COVID on Day 7 and may return to work on Day 11 with conditional clearance with a negative test. They must continue to complete the Student and Employee Health (SEHS) symptom survey for 14 days. (See instructions for quarantined employees below).
Direct patient care employees who provide inpatient and Emergency Department care may be eligible to continue to work with conditional clearance. Serial testing will be required every 48 hours on days 2, 4 and 6, and these employees must quarantine at home outside work and self-isolate during breaks at work. The SEHS symptom survey must be completed twice a day for the first six days and then daily through Day 14.
Direct patient care employees who provide non-inpatient care are excluded from work for seven days with COVID testing on Day 5 if they are asymptomatic. They may return to work on Day 8 with conditional clearance and continued completion of the SEHS symptom survey. They are also required to quarantine at home for 10 days when not at work.
All employees who test positive must be quarantined at home for at least 10 days.
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Weekly Antigen Testing for Eligible Employees --
……………to offer weekly antigen COVID-19 testing to employees who work directly with patients. This includes physicians, hospital clinical staff and revenue cycle, transport, environmental services and nutrition services employees who routinely work in the Emergency Department and inpatient units and are at greater risk of exposure to COVID-positive patients. Eligible employees will receive more information via e-mail.
The test is a self-administered nasal swab, and it will be given weekdays in the Lobby Gallery. This antigen testing program will provide data to help in the study of how COVID-19 is transmitted in health care settings.
Testing is scheduled to begin Monday, Dec. 14, and will continue weekly for three months. This testing is part of a research initiative from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services designed to develop better ways to protect health care workers from infection. Participation in the weekly antigen testing is limited, and only employees who have direct exposure to patients in the hospital or Emergency Department are eligible to participate.
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