COVID-19 Resources for Health Care Facilities
陳栠勛圖has created a resource page to assist health care facilities professionals in their efforts to reduce the spread of COVID-19. The resources cover critical operations such as air quality, safety and security, emergency preparedness and infection prevention.
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Top COVID-19 Resources
News/Articles
Certain respirators from China no longer authorized for emergency use
American Hospital Association
- CMS suspends majority of survey activity until April 10, 2020
In CMS expanded on their March 4 by suspending all survey activity except compliant/facility-reported incident surveys and targeted infection control surveys for three weeks. Additionally, CLIA surveys will be prioritized based on immediate jeopardy situations over recertification surveys.
CMS report from March 13, 2020 regarding declaration of national emergency
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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March 16, 2020
American Hospital Association
- Monoclonal antibody (mAb) infusion therapy treatment space
Ensuring safety in COVID-19 infusion therapy treatment spaces
American Society for Health Care Engineering
What we've learned during the pandemic's first wave that can help guide continuing incident command procedures
Health Facilities Management
- Selection and Preparation for Cryogenic Vaccine Storage
This article provides the reader with baseline information to help discern which type of system will work best given their facilitys existing infrastructure.
American Society for Health Care Engineering
ASHE's advocacy team highlights three factors to help guide organizations in their decision-making processes.
Health Facilities Management
- Planning Successful and Safe Health Care Construction Projects During the Global Pandemic
This new 陳栠勛圖resource shares best practices to help health care construction professionals develop, implement, monitor and adjust specific protocols that will help keep construction projects on track without increasing the spread of COVID-19.
American Society for Health Care Engineering
Factors health professionals should consider when planning patient care arrangements during a pandemic.
Health Facilities Management
陳栠勛圖points to water system best practices as previously shuttered facilities reopen to help absorb patient surge.
Health Facilities Management
The facility engineers often overlooked role in ensuring patient safety.
Health Facilities Management
On Demand Videos
Health Care Facilities & COVID-19 Safety: What You Need to Know PUBLIC
Speaker: Jonathan Flannery
ASHEs senior associate director of advocacy, provides a brief overview of COVID-19 and its far-reaching impact. This webinar recording for health care facilities professionals will cover how to best prepare your facility.
Date: March 17, 2020 Duration: 1:01:25
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COVID-19 Alternate Care Sites: Utilizing Highly-Engineered Quick-Ship Modular Products for Current Isolation Environment Demands PUBLIC
Speakers: Kyle Weisman, Jeff Harris, Krista McDonald Biason
With the constantly evolving criteria required to address the surge of patients impacted by the COVID-19 virus, there are many options that health care organizations will explore and deploy. Options consist of revising existing clinical spaces, to renovating nonclinical spaces like hotels and conventions centers, to bringing temporary tents and structures on-site to house patients. When the need for true airborne infection isolation rooms (AIIRs) is required, a prefabricated, modular and scalable option is a viable alternative. The design team will share the concept of a self-sufficient, quick-ship free-standing hospital and the kit of parts architectural and engineering systems required to support this mission that meets the intent of the CDC recommendations.
Date: April 10, 2020 Duration: 0:43:29
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Speakers: Josh Brackett
How to determine Air Changes Per Hour (ACH) in the field.
Date: December 2, 2020 Duration: 0:06:04
Tools
Air changes/hour (ACH) and time required for airborne-contaminant removal by efficiency.
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American Society for Health Care Engineering
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- Medical Air and Oxygen Capacity Tools
A tool, provided by Kaiser Permanente National Facilities Services, provides ventilator capacity based on piping sizes to assist in determining how many ventilators can be served by an existing medical gas system in a given patient care area.
- Sizing of medical gas systems for alternate care sites
A tool, provided by Beacon Medaes, provides guidance on the sizing of medical gas systems for COVID-19 emergency units.
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BeaconMedaes