Rachel,

I did not see that you received any responses yet, so I thought I would chime in. We are currently allowing home tests, however not allowing employee to return while having symptoms until they provide 2 negative tests. So, unless they are only experiencing symptoms for 24 hours and they resolve completely most staff are out at least 48 hours. I have not seen any benchmarks set. It would depend on established process and test type allowable by facility.
We are no longer providing rapid PCR testing to our employees at no cost. For this reason, we have had to give some latitude to accept other tests.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Jennifer

 

 

 

Hi Everyone,

 

Is anyone aware of any benchmarks set around COVID hotline/exposure team throughput for the following:

 

                Team member (TM) calls in to the time it takes to get a COVID test

                TM tests to test resulted

                TM resulted to retests/ return to work

 

 

Rachel Leibu, MD, MBA, MS, FACOEM

Medical Director Occupational Medicine Services

Atlantic Health System

Clinical Assistant Professor, Sidney Kimmel Medical College

at Thomas Jefferson University

 

Office 973-829-4277

Cell 973-886-6708

 

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