We have an internal respiratory team that works out of Employee Health. It includes a program manager, and 2 MA’s. We FIT test the majority of our staff, at hire and annually on their birth month.
We have a separate small office dedicated to annual FIT testing, making appts in Bookings app.
have 2 FIT testing stations in Employee Health for new hire FIT testing and annual FIT testing. We have an Employee Health coordinator/receptionist, that does the majority of our new hires after the RN sees them for onboarding.
We have the 2 MA’s at another location every Monday morning to FIT test onboarding traveler’s, they go to the orientation and do it there.
We go out to our other smaller facilities several days per month for annual testing, 2 outlying small hospitals.
We use portacounts machines for FIT testing.
We really kicked this off at beginning of COVID when our facility was majority PAPR trained, very few FIT tested. We used a vendor to help catch us up out of Washington. And we had additional 2 travelers (as well as present team) to help
us get up to speed fast. We haven’t used the vendor since mid 2020 and traveler’s ended about 9 months ago.
It's a big scope of work, we have about 6000 employees, plus many Locums, travelers, students and contracted employees.
Thank you.
Kit Schweitzer,
RN, BSN, COHN
|
Employee Health Nurse |
Employee Health Oregon Network
PeaceHealth
| 3333 Riverbend Way
| Springfield, OR 97477
office
541-222-2544
|
fax 541-222-2548
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Who is responsible for fit testing within your organization?
Do you outsource to a vendor? If so, who do you use?
If internal, what resources are dedicated to the program?
As always
Thank you
Charlie
Charles D Hackett, MD, MPH
Medical Director, Employee and Occupational Health, Lifespan
Chief Community and Family Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital
Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Brown University