4-22 Governor opens Elective Surgeries with accountability measures attached:
Under the new order, hospitals, dental offices and other health facilities can resume conducting elective surgeries on May 1 if they can show they have implemented measures intended to keep health care workers and patients safe. These include:
· Demonstrating greater than a 14 day supply of PPE;
· Ensuring adequate staffing and beds;
· Testing patients prior to surgery and all at-risk health care workers;
· Ensuring appropriate discharge plans for patients being transferred to nursing care facilities, including diagnostic testing for COVID-19;
· Implementing a universal symptom screening process for staff, patients, and visitors;
· Establishing an enhanced cleaning process for waiting areas;
· And prioritizing the restart of elective surgeries based on urgency.
Facilities that meet the specified standards will need to receive approval from the Department of Health Services before resuming elective surgeries. The order shall be considered for repeal or revision every two weeks.
My question would be - is this based on "written" approval? It would be unrealistic to have inspectors go to facilities and actually see if they are complying. If they are trusting medical/dental facilities to do what they say they are doing, then let's extend this opportunity to all businesses and open the state. Do they not trust us?
I agree 100%, Viktoria... one bright possibility The Duce left open is his implication that he may further modify his EO on or before May 1 as it applies to sectors other than health care. Let's hope he shows some compassion. Otherwise I think he knows there could be trouble.
I'm in complete support of Ducey opening up for elective surgeries, stress on 'elective", that doesn't mean "unnecessary". I too hope he will allow other businesses to open. But one concern I have is that ALL healthcare workers need to be tested! I have close family that work in skilled nursing facilities (SNF) in CA and the patients were tested before the hospitals released them to the SNF but the patients contracted the virus in the SNF and this was well after the March 9th directive of no visitors. This tells me the healthcare workers brought the virus into the SNF.
Great post, Teri... logic trumps knee-jerk every time!
Dont make me break any rules on this forum. Trump was the ONLY one on this and got prusecuted for stopping those flights from China! If he had done nothing you would call him wrong ! Tell your Chinacrate Congress to GET BACK TO WORK !