Purpose and Scope
CASA PANCE and his employees are committed to providing a safe and healthy place for all our employees, patients and doctors.
Casa Pance, has developed the following COVID-19 plan, which includes policies and procedures to minimize the risk of transmission of COVID-19, in accordance with COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS).
For Casa Pance Employee’s
All staff will wear a mask when with clients and/or other staff, when walking around common areas in the house. The only time staff my remove their mask while at work is when they are alone in their office, with the door shut if they have one. If you work in a common area, you may remove your mask if there are no other staff, clients or patients in the area.
Every effort will be made to maintain a 6-foot social distance at all times. Please observe the tape on the floor to help denote the 6-foot markings between doctors, and patients, and other staff.
You will be required to take your own temperature daily upon arriving to work, using one of our no touch thermometers. We will use the honor system that you will take your temperature when you arrive for the day. If your temperature is 100.4 or higher than, you will be expected to leave work immediately and stay away from our office until you have been fever free for 72 hours (3 days) Should you discover that you have a fever when you report for work, please send an email to Casa Pance’s manager with the following information:
Time Temperature taken & the reading
The Manager will then be in touch with you to discuss your plan for clients, patients, and using sick leave or working remotely.
For all in-person meeting with Patients, we encourage you to wear eye protection or a face shield. There are face shields for every worker at the main Casa Pance’s office, please take one, write you name on it. It is your responsibility to clean the face shield when necessary. Directions on how to sanitize a face shield can be found here: https://www.samc.com/assets/documents/covid19/nursing/covid-19-full-face-shield-sanitization-final-_03_17_20.pdf
Before scheduling an in-person appointment with patients or prominent clients, please ask them if anyone in their household has had a fever in the past 3 days, or is currently exhibiting any signs of illness, such as dry cough, fatigue and/or body aches. If they answer yes to any of those questions, do not offer them an in-person appointment at this time. In an effort to reduce exposure to others, please limit in person sessions to 1 patient per family at a time.
Help instruct your patients or clients to wait in the car, or outside, and notify them you will call them when you are ready for them. Before allowing them into the building, please ensure there is no one other than a receptionist in the waiting room. Please meet your patient at the front desk, offer a mask should they not have one, have them wash or sanitize their hands, and take everyone’s temperature. If the client has a temperature of 100.4 or higher, please explain that we will not be able to see them in person today, and tell them you will follow up with a phone call to reschedule their appointment for later. They will not be able to schedule an in- person appointment with you until everyone in their household has been fever and symptom free for 3 days.
After each patient, you will need to sanitize all high touch surfaces, which include the doorknobs and chairs used for their meeting. Other Casa Pance staff (when we are fulling staffing the office) will be sanitizing all public areas, at 9 am, 2 pm, and 7 pm. In addition, after any client that has come in with a fever. Areas to be sanitized will include door handles, front desk surface, public and staff bathrooms.
If you are experiencing signs of COVID-19, including any of the following:
Fever or chills
Cough
Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
Fatigue
Muscle or body aches
Headache
New loss of taste or smell
Sore throat
Congestion or runny nose
Nausea or vomiting
Diarrhea
Please notify Casa Pance’s manager right away. He will l help you come up with a plan for work or sick leave as needed. If you are experiencing any signs of COVID-19 above, please do not come into the office, until 10 days after symptoms first appeared and have been fever free without aid of medication for 24 hours.
Vaccination
Casa Pance encourages employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccination as a part of a multi-layered infection control approach. Casa Pance will support COVID-19 vaccination for each employee by providing reasonable time and paid leave to each employee for vaccination and any side effects experienced following vaccination.
For CLIENTS/ PATIENTS
Wear a face mask at all times.
2. Practice physical distancing of at least 6 feet at Casa Pance’s house and doctor’s office.
3. Wash hands or use hand sanitizer frequently. You will find hand sanitizer stations throughout our care facilities, including at the building entrance and in clinical care areas. Your practitioners will sanitize their hands before and after caring for you.
4. Complete your COVID-19 screening before you visit. Meaning get a Covid Negative test before a procedure.
5. Visitors. If you plan to have someone accompany you to your appointment or visit you in the casa Pance Facility or a hospital, check our visitor guidelines before coming to our care facilities. The guidelines may change as we monitor COVID-19 in our community.
Appointments that require testing
When you schedule an appointment, procedure or surgery, you will be told whether you need to have a COVID-19 test. If you are uncertain, please be sure to ask Casa Pance’s manager or immediate doctor.
Unless you show signs of COVID-19, in general, a COVID-19 test is not needed for:
Regular office visits
Procedures and surgeries performed at our care settings outside of hospitals (ambulatory surgery centers)
COVID-19 tests are required for some procedures at hospitals (including ones requiring deep sedation or general anesthesia) and when an overnight hospital stay is required.
We are continually reviewing our COVID-19 testing requirements, including the role of vaccination, and will make further adjustments as it is safe to do so.
If you are experiencing signs of COVID-19, including any of the following:
Fever or chills
Cough
Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
Fatigue
Muscle or body aches
Headache
New loss of taste or smell
Sore throat
Congestion or runny nose
Nausea or vomiting
Diarrhea
DO NOT COME TO THE CENTER AND INFORM CASA PANCE’S MANAGER AND DOCTOR ASSIGNED TO YOUR CASE.
For DOCTORS
Messaging: on phone system, please include a message that patients with any fever and respiratory symptoms should NOT directly come to the office and await further instructions from the doctor in charge of the case. b. If you answer the call, ask about travel, exposures, duration of symptoms, fever, cough, shortness of breath or risk factors for severe disease. If you determine via telephone/video or text-triage that the patient requires urgent attention, please bring this to the attention of the physician and we will direct the patient to the nearest hospital.
Ask patients about symptoms during reminder calls.
Consider rescheduling non-urgent appointments.
Post signs at entrances and in waiting areas about prevention actions.
Provide supplies tissues, alcohol-based hand rub, soap at sinks, and trash cans.
Place chairs 3–6 feet apart, when possible.
Use barriers (like screens), if possible. – If your office has toys, reading materials, or other communal objects, remove them or clean them regularly.
Limit the number of employees present during the procedure to only those essential for patient care and procedure support;
Wear a mask when with clients and/or other staff, when walking around common areas in the house or in the hospital, clinic etc.,
if a procedure were to be ensured that remember to perform the procedure in an existing airborne infection isolation room (AIIR), if available
Clean and disinfect the surfaces and equipment in the room or area where the procedure was performed, after the procedure is completed.
After patients leave, clean frequently touched surfaces using registered disinfectant counters, beds, seating.
Provide at-home care instructions to patients with respiratory symptoms.
Consider telehealth options for follow up.
Notify the Colombian health department of patients with COVID-19 symptoms.
If you are experiencing signs of COVID-19, including any of the following:
Fever or chills
Cough
Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
Fatigue
Muscle or body aches
Headache
New loss of taste or smell
Sore throat
Congestion or runny nose
Nausea or vomiting
Diarrhea
Please notify Casa Pance’s manager right away. He will l help you come up with a plan for work or sick leave as needed.