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COVID-19 March 17, 2020 Update - New Resources Added - Guidelines for Screening Health Care Workers (Companion Document for Managers), Community Testing Locations

COVID-19 Update – March 17, 2020

Please note the new Shared Health COVID-19 landing page (https://sharedhealthmb.ca/covid19/) and new Shared Health resources for health-providers URL (https://sharedhealthmb.ca/covid19/providers/)

Information and resources are being regularly updated at the links below. Please review and share as appropriate with leadership, sites, physicians and partners in long term care.


New & Updated Information by section:

March 17, 2020 - Public health officials advise that seven additional presumptive positive cases of COVID-19 have been identified in Manitoba. This brings the total number of lab-confirmed positive cases in Manitoba to 15. For full details, please visit https://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?item=47038&posted=2020-03-17

 

Latest Operational Updates:

Guidelines for screening of Manitoba health-care workers (physicians and staff) *Updated https://sharedhealthmb.ca/files/covid-19-guidelines-for-screening-health-care-worker.pdf

Guidelines for managers (companion document) https://sharedhealthmb.ca/files/covid-19-guidelines-for-managers.pdf

OESH fax form https://sharedhealthmb.ca/files/covid-19-oesh-fax-form.pdf

A message from Lanette Siragusa, Provincial Lead, Health System Integration& Quality and Chief Nursing Officer, Shared Health https://sharedhealthmb.ca/files/covid-19-lanette-message.pdf

Visitor restrictions at acute and long term care facilities *Updated https://sharedhealthmb.ca/files/covid-19-visitor-restrictions.pdf

Emergency preparedness and privacy and security considerations *Updated https://sharedhealthmb.ca/files/covid-19-privacy-security.pdf

Media bulletin #17 https://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?item=47017&posted=2020-03-17

Media bulletin #18 https://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?item=47038&posted=2020-03-17

 

Resources for Staff and Sites:

Community testing locations https://sharedhealthmb.ca/files/covid-19-community-testing-locations.pdf

Respiratory hygiene brochure – English https://sharedhealthmb.ca/files/respiratory-hygiene-pamphlet.pdf

Respiratory hygiene brochure – French https://sharedhealthmb.ca/files/respiratory-hygiene-pamphlet-fr.pdf

Clean hands save lives brochure – English https://sharedhealthmb.ca/files/clean-hand-pamphlet.pdf

Clean hand save lives brochure – French https://sharedhealthmb.ca/files/clean-hand-pamphlet-fr.pdf

COVID-19 Highlights for Quick Reference for Staff – Provincial https://sharedhealthmb.ca/files/COVID-19-highlights-provincial.pdf

COVID-19 Highlights for Quick Reference for Staff – Winnipeg https://sharedhealthmb.ca/files/COVID-19-highlights-winnipeg.pdf

 

Patient Information:

Important information for kidney patients – French https://sharedhealthmb.ca/files/covid-19-info-for-kidney-patients-fr.pdf

Important information for cancer patients - French https://sharedhealthmb.ca/files/covid-19-info-for-cancer-patients-fr.pdf

Attention: Families and support persons of residents of long term care facilities *Updated https://sharedhealthmb.ca/files/covid-19-family-ltc.pdf

 

Personal protective equipment resources:

How to safely don and doff PPE https://sharedhealthmb.ca/files/covid-19-don-and-doff-ppe.pdf

Donning PPE video https://youtu.be/B5ew8020fwc

Doffing PPE video https://youtu.be/Lly8DjGcvDM  

 

Posters:

Long term care poster 8.5” x 11” – English https://sharedhealthmb.ca/files/ltc-poster-letter-size.pdf (updated) - also available in 11” x 17” and 22” x 28”

Long term care poster 8.5” x 11” – French https://sharedhealthmb.ca/files/ltc-poster-letter-size-fr.pdf (updated) - also available in 11” x 17” and 22” x 28”

COVID-19 testing locations 8.5” x 11” – English https://sharedhealthmb.ca/files/covid-19-testing-location-letter.pdf (updated) - also available in 11” x 17” and 22” x 28”

COVID-19 testing locations 8.5” x 11” – French https://sharedhealthmb.ca/files/covid-19-testing-location-letter-fr.pdf (updated) - also available in 11” x 17” and 22” x 28”

Attention patients contact alert poster 8.5” x 11” – English/French https://sharedhealthmb.ca/wp-content/uploads/attention-patients-wash-hands-1.pdf (updated) - also available in 11” x 17”

Shared Health hand hygiene poster 11” x 17” – English https://sharedhealthmb.ca/files/hand-hygiene.pdf (updated)

Shared Health hand hygiene poster 11” x 17” – French https://sharedhealthmb.ca/files/hand-hygiene-fr.pdf (updated)

 

As always, up-to-date information is available at the following locations:

Information for the Public: https://www.gov.mb.ca/health/coronavirus/

Information for Health Care Providers, Physicians & Staff https://sharedhealthmb.ca/covid19/providers/

 

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