Health Care Worker Isolation and Exposure Recommendations

Health care settings, in consultation with medical, legal, and occupational health leadership, should use guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to establish protocols for isolation and managing exposures of health care workers during conventional, contingency, and crisis staffing situations.

• CDC: Interim Guidance for Managing Healthcare Personnel with SARS-CoV-2 Infection or Exposure to SARS-CoV-2
  General guidance regarding isolation and managing exposed health care workers.
• CDC: Strategies to Mitigate Healthcare Personnel Staffing Shortages
  Isolation of health care workers during contingency and crisis staffing situations.

Reporting clusters in health care facilities

Long-term care facilities, including group homes, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, and acute care facilities should report using the forms and instructions found at Reporting COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Clusters in Health Care Facilities.

Resources

• Long-term Care Testing: COVID-19
• CDC: Infection Control Guidance: SARS-CoV-2
• CDC: Clinical Care Quick Reference