Hi Charles,

 

This was done at Stanford, not VA. Their OH works in an outbuilding on the campus so they’re either doing it in that building or at one of the campus drive thru “Express Care”s.

 

At VA we were only testing critical employees (like critically important not critically ill), but I have just loosened that to direct clinical care staff with known exposure, since they don’t have a telework option.

 

But the Stanford numbers, right next door, help us see what I did expect, most of these colds are still regular winter viruses and not covid.

 

Good luck! I hope that helps.

Wendy

 

From: Charles Hackett <dickenshackett@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 9:18 AM
To: MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh@mylist.net>
Cc: Thanassi, Wendy <Wendy.Thanassi@va.gov>
Subject: Re: [MCOH-EH] [EXTERNAL] Re: COVID-19 Test Results

 

Wendy

What are the logistics for screening 125 hcw?

Do you have an hcw dedicated testing clinic?

Does everyone get tested or based on screening

We are seeing that the bar for testing is becoming lower

Employee with mild gi symptoms 

No fever testing +ve

Employee that was well ran 7 miles and then within hours developing rigors +ve

We are very limited in our testing capability 

Any guidance will help

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On Mar 27, 2020, at 12:31 AM, Thanassi, Wendy via MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh@mylist.net> wrote:

 I’d be interested in your positive rate testing employees? Stanford is 2.5%, or 97.5% negative. 150 tests yesterday.

 

What is SunQuest?

 

Wendy

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From: Shea, Joann via MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh@mylist.net>

Date: Thursday, Mar 26, 2020, 2:05 PM

To: MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh@mylist.net>

Cc: Shea, Joann <jshea@tgh.org>

Subject: [EXTERNAL] 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

jshea@tgh.org

imageTGH

 

From: MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh-bounces+jshea=tgh.org@mylist.net>On Behalf Of Giovannetti, Mary
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 6:45 PM
To: MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh@mylist.net>
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>
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 4:25 PM
To: MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh@mylist.net>
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

 

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