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COVID-19 Screening of Home Care and Hospice Personnel (DAL DHCBS 22-13)
New Yorksub_regulatoryNYSDOH Division of Home and Community Based Services
What this rule requires your agency to do
- 1Agencies must have a plan to advise and refer symptomatic/febrile staff to medical attention, send them home, and require appropriate PPE including masks.(COVID-19 Screening of Home Care and Hospice Personnel (DAL DHCBS 22-13))
- 2Agencies must have a policy to contact each employee daily prior to beginning home care visits to confirm self-monitoring and absence of symptoms.(COVID-19 Screening of Home Care and Hospice Personnel (DAL DHCBS 22-13))
- 3The policy must require home care workers to contact the agency and immediately cease patient visitation if they develop symptoms during the workday.(COVID-19 Screening of Home Care and Hospice Personnel (DAL DHCBS 22-13))
Applies to: cross-cutting
Modifies COVID-19 staff screening from twice-daily to once-daily and sets expectations for daily symptom monitoring and referral of symptomatic staff.
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