Emergency Preparedness

Appendix H.5 – HID

Kern Medical Emergency Preparedness

care should be received in the Emergency Room  Notification: Local and state health departments will be notified of any highly infectious disease exposure. • Discharge Process  Prior to the patient’s discharge, a family member or friend will be asked to bring clean clothing to the hospital, which will be placed in ____.  Clean surgical scrubs and socks/slippers will be placed in a sealed bag and will be brought into the patient room.  On the day of Patient’s discharge, the following will occur in the Hot Zone  Patient takes a shower  After shower, patient will stand on clean towel in bathroom and don clean surgical scrubs  After drying feet, patient dons hospital socks/slippers  Patient dons long surgical booties over shoe covers  Patient dons one pair of gloves  Patient will then walk to door of patient room and carefully remove surgical booties and discard them in the regulated medical waste container  Patient will open door with bleach SaniWipe (in glove hand)  The following will occur in the Warm Zone  Patient will remove gloves, clean hands with alcohol gel then don clean gloves  Patient will sit on stool and carefully remove one shoe cover and sock and discard into regulated medical waste container  Patient will then don clean sock and (without placing foot on the floor in the warm zone), put clean foot into the cold zone  Patient will carefully remove second shoe cover and sock and discard into the regulated medical waste container  Patient will don second clean sock (without placing second foot on the floor in the warm zone) stand in the cold zone  The following will occur in the Cold Zone  Patient will carefully stand in the cold zone, doff gloves and clean hands with alcohol gel  Patient will walk to the donning room  The following will occur in the donning room  Patient will take another shower  Patient will put on personal clothing • Room Recovery Process  Deactivation of the HICS due to a PUI rule out  The command Center will facilitate an “ Code 300 All Clear” HICS alert  The Command Center shall coordinate the following o EVS will clean the DOU unit o EVS shall restock Bleach SaniWipes o Central Supply shall immediately restock HID units to par levels of supplies/PPE

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