Infection Prevention sends an e-mail to the department manager(s) including confirmation of organism, date(s) of exposure, locations and definition of exposure
along with a tracking tool and instructions for the manager to include the names of employees meeting the aforementioned criteria and to follow up at Occupational Health.
This works great 95 % of the times except 4 pm on a Friday when phone calls are added.
T. Warner Hudson, MD FACOEM, FAAFP
Medical Director, Occupational and Employee Health
UCLA
Health System and Campus
Office 310.825.9146
Fax 310.206.4585
Pager 800.233.7231 ID 27132
E-mail
twhudson@mednet.ucla.edu
Website
www.ohs.uclahealth.org
From: MCOH-EH [mailto:mcoh-eh-bounces@mylist.net]
On Behalf Of Higazi, Patricia
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 6:02 AM
To: 'MCOH/EH'
Subject: Re: [MCOH-EH] process for notifying employees of a potential exposure
We send notification to all relevant managers and they are responsible for contacting their staff via their call back tree. We also have an alert flag on the first age of our intranet that has a message such at
“pertussis exposure alert: units 8c, ER, Transport Respiratory etc., Contact Occupational health @ 88899”
Patricia Higazi RN BSN COHN
Occupational Health Director
CHKD, Norfolk, VA
Tel: (757) 668 7491
Fax: (757) 668 8775
We send notification to all.
Ask that managers ensure that all either receive the email or are called if they are not at work.
List,
Please share your most expeditious and efficient ways of notifying a large number of employees of their potential risk of exposure, particularly in off shifts such as weekends and
holidays. Thank you.
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