[MCOH-EH] COVID19

[Shea, Joann]

We set up an emergency COVID-19  cost center for all expenses related to COVID, including pay for COVID-19  +, exposures, etc.


  *   If we quarantine an employee due to a work exposure they are paid by the hospital without having to use their ATO (vacation) pay.  The pay comes from our COVID-19 emergency cost center.
  *   If self quarantine due to travel or community exposure, they must use their ATO  time.
  *   Our  hospitals pays for time off for ANY COVID -19 + employees, no matter where they may have acquired the illness.  We also pay if employee’s  dependent acquires COVID-19 (minor) and the employee needs to be off to take care of them.  This does not include spouses.  This also is applied to the COVID-19 cost center and not the home department.
  *   Our local YMCAs have opened up childcare for healthcare workers so that has been very helpful.
  *   We do not have a union here.

JoAnn Shea, APRN, MS, COHN-S
Director, Team Member Health and Wellness
Tampa General Hospital
Office: 813-844-7692
Cell:      813-789-3441
jshea at tgh.org
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You should also check with your state  Department of Labor.  There  are usually state laws and judicial decisions that determine how employers pay employees and provide leave in these situations.

Deb Sampson
Deborah A Sampson,  PhD, APRN, FAANP



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From: Charles Hackett <dickenshackett at gmail.com<mailto:dickenshackett at gmail.com>>
Date: 3/3/20 10:14 PM (GMT-05:00)
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Subject: [MCOH-EH] COVID19

Our HR leadership has asked us to reach out to other health care colleagues for some guidance around employees that are or maybe quarantined because of COVID19.
If an employee is determined to be quarantined for 14 days because of inadvertent exposure and are clinically well, are they being paid and if so how.
The organization through CDC and local public health guidance is saying you must stay home and self monitor.
Are you paying them?
Are benefits continuing?
Do you bypass whatever you have in place related to necessary documentation after a days off threshold?
Is it a special payroll coding?
Is it PTO?
Is it different for your unionized workforce?
Thank you.
Charlie Hackett MD, MPH
Lifespan

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