Would like to hear how other healthcare facilities are handling at risk employees (pregnant, over age 60 with underlying comorbidities and immunocompromised).;   We have allowed them to be reassigned from r/o COVID or diagnosed COVID but some of them do not want to work at all.   If possible, we try to reassign to lower risk areas, but it is not always possible.

Since our elective surgeries are cancelled,  we are using pool of nurses from furloughed areas to work in our screening center,  help with fit testing medical staff, and screen employees coming intio the building.  Tomorrow we are starting symptom screening of all employees entering main facility.    Those who have a + symptom screen  will be sent to the EHS screening clinic for an evaluation and possible testing.



JoAnn Shea, APRN, MS, COHN-S
Director, Team Member Health and Wellness
Tampa General Hospital
813-844-7692
813-789-3441

jshea@tgh.org


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From: MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh-bounces@mylist.net> on behalf of Behrman, Amy <behrman@pennmedicine.upenn.edu>
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:07 AM
To: 'mcoh-eh@mylist.net' <mcoh-eh@mylist.net>
Subject: [MCOH-EH] ACOEM Outreach Regarding HCP Protections
 

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Dear MCOH Colleagues,

I hope this weekend has brought you some brief respite from the escalating crisis that endangers our clinician colleagues and their patients.  PPE deficiencies, particularly for respiratory protection, likely drive agonizing decisions at most of our hospitals daily. 

This email is sent on behalf of ACOEM leadership,  seeking your input as MCOH clinicians and experts as it relates to an OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for HCP.  If you have evidence (or even anecdotes) from the past several weeks that an ETS is indicated, ACOEM would like to hear all that you are comfortable sharing.  Please send your responses directly to ACOEM's Director of Government Affairs, Pat O'Connor, at patoconnor@kentoconnor.com.  Pat has served ACOEM for many years, and guarantees that responses to him will be ensured anonymity and de-identified for hospital worksites as well as individuals. If you reply to the MCOH listserv only, your responses will simply be to the listserv. 

Wishing you all strength, health and resilience in this terrible time, Amy

 Specific questions from ACOEM are



Amy J Behrman, MD, FACOEM, FACP

Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine

Medical Director, Occupational Medicine

Perelman School of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

3400 Spruce Street

Philadelphia, PA  19104

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