EXCITING CHANGES FOR MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS & OUTINGS
Medical trips outside the facility:
- Telemedicine should be utilized whenever possible.
- Residents that go out of the facility for scheduled health care visits (e.g. dialysis, specialist follow-up, ophthalmologist)
- Screen residents for COVID-19 symptoms when leaving the facility for an appointment and within one-hour of returning to the facility.
- Continue daily resident screening each shift thereafter.
- The resident must wear a cloth face covering or facemask when they leave their room and during transport. Self-isolation is recommended but not required upon return.
- This does not include ER visits and hospitalizations. These residents must still be quarantined upon return. New admissions or re-admission from hospital or ER require quarantine for 14 days.
- Symptomatic residents will still require a minimum of 14 day isolation depending on symptom progression.
For Assisted Living and Memory Care only:
- Non-medically necessary trips outside the building should be limited and discouraged but allowed. It is recommended tenants with high-risk co-morbidities continue to avoid non-medically necessary trips outside the building. It is encouraged that these decisions be made collaboratively by the tenant, and their representative in consultation with the tenant’s physician and the facility.
- Any tenant living in the facility must wear a cloth face mask while out of the building as should anyone accompanying them.
- To prevent potential harm to others in the facility, the tenant must also agree to current tenant screening policies practiced by the AL/MC and quarantine restrictions if there are any signs or symptoms of COVID identified.
- Tenants leaving the building for any reason should be observed for 14 days upon return. Depending upon the level of potential exposure encountered during on outing, a tenant may need to refrain from communal dining and group activities for a period of time as determined by the facility.
- This does not include ER visits and hospitalizations. These residents must still be quarantined upon return. New admissions or re-admission from hospital or ER require quarantine for 14 days.
- Symptomatic residents will still require a minimum of 14-day isolation depending on symptom progression.
- Jenna Gardner, MA-g, MBA, LNHA | Executive Director