We have screened 421 HCW with 13 positives (3%). 6 employees and 7 providers
- Asymptomatic (screened related to our cander center exposure)
3-afebrile with just cough and malaise
9- typical fever, cough, chest tightness and malaise
This week we are testing around 80-90/day.
Wondering how others are handling RTW for COVID + HCW? We are requiring two neg COVID test 24 hours apart. Now on day 12 with our first one, but she is still positive.
Thanks everyone!
JoAnn Shea, APRN, MS, COHN-S
Director, Team Member Health and Wellness
Tampa General Hospital
Office: 813-844-7692
Cell: 813-789-3441
jshea@tgh.org
From: MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh-bounces+jshea=tgh.org@mylist.net>On Behalf Of
Thanassi, Wendy via MCOH-EH
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 12:05 AM
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Cc: Thanassi, Wendy <Wendy.Thanassi@va.gov>
Subject: Re: [MCOH-EH] Re: COVID-19 Test Results
I’d be interested in your positive rate testing employees? Stanford is 2.5%, or 97.5% negative. 150 tests yesterday.
What is SunQuest?
From: Shea, Joann via MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh@mylist.net>
Date: Thursday, Mar 26, 2020, 2:05 PM
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Cc: Shea, Joann <jshea@tgh.org>
Subject: Re: [MCOH-EH] COVID-19 Test Results
We are not entering into EPIC. Employee Health (aka Team Member Health) is coordinating a Healthcare worker screening clinic and we enter all labs into SunQuest which auto populates into our OH database. We have furloughed APRN or RN following up with team members and exposures.
We test all employees, medical staff and residents who meet our screening criteria. Our current turnaround is 6-12 hours and our esoteric lab runs the test in-house.
Our Infectious Disease physicians are starting to see GI symptoms as presenting symptoms in the community, although we have not seen that at our healthcare organization yet.
Would like to hear what other organizations are doing post-exposure. We had exposure in our free standing Emergency Dept and Infusion Center. We did not quarantine due to large number of employees exposed as we would have to essentially shut down those areas. We opted to do daily symptom screening, twice a day temps and require exposed HCWs to wear surgical mask during work shift for 14 days. We feel comfortable doing this since we can get same day results for anyone with symptoms and isolate quickly.
We do require 14 day self quarantine for domestic and international air travel and any travel from New York, Washington and newly designated domestic hotzones.
JoAnn Shea, APRN, MS, COHN-S
Director, Team Member Health and Wellness
Tampa General Hospital
Office: 813-844-7692
Cell: 813-789-3441
From: MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh-bounces+jshea=tgh.org@mylist.net>On Behalf OfGiovannetti, Mary
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 6:45 PM
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Subject: Re: [MCOH-EH] COVID-19 Test Results
Our employees are tested at our urgent care instead of EH, so yes.
Mary C Giovannetti, DNP, APRN, FNP
Manager/Nurse Practitioner| Employee Health
Physician's Center, 100 East Wood St., Suite 204 | Spartanburg, SC 29303
o: 864-560-6514 | f: 864-560-6509 c: 864-497-4087
e:mgiovannetti@srhs.com | w: SpartanburgRegional.com
From: MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh-bounces@mylist.net> on behalf of Lisa Dyrdahl <Lisa_Dyrdahl@Valleymed.org>
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Subject: Re: [MCOH-EH] COVID-19 Test Results
Warning: [This message came from outside of Spartanburg Regional Network]
Is anyone entering COVID testing results for employees into the EPIC record?
Thank you.
Lisa Dyrdahl, RN, BSN
Manager Employee Health
UWMC Valley Medical Center
Ph 425-228-3440 x5720
Fax 425-656-5066