It’s Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Happy Administrative Professionals Day!
State Stats: There have been 24,854 COVID-19 cases in 64/64 parishes and
1,405 deaths to date. There are 1,798 patients in hospitals, with 297 on vents.
North Oaks Stats: We have 20 COVID-19 cases and 7 PUI in-house, with 2
patients on vents. We’ve performed 1,591 COVID-19 tests with 385
positive results; 70 tests are pending. We discharged six (6) patients
yesterday bringing our total to 105. Be sure to check out our FB video
of our 100th COVID discharge! It was a true feel-good moment. J
Employee Wellness reports 20 employees monitoring at home with 7 cleared
to return to work yesterday.
Population Health reports 61 calls and 22 video visits yesterday. We did
68 tests in the drive through yesterday, and 8 are in the queue for this morning.
Walk-in clinic volume was up slightly yesterday to 46 patients.
Supplies are sufficient to ensure safety of staff. We are receiving additional
PPE today from the Tangipahoa Parish Homeland Security Office.
OPERATIONAL CHANGES:
Effective today, we are closing the COVID side of the Emergency Department
until further notice due to lower volumes.
On Saturday, MICU2 will be converted back to PACU.
Look for information later today about changes to our retirement plans
that will help employees who have need to access those funds.
Today and next Wednesday at noon LHA will host a virtual class on resiliency.
All are welcome to attend. See attached flyer for instructions.
To ensure all staff have access to financial offers made available from
our Vendors and Relief Acts/Plans, the following URL was created for remote
access by furloughed staff. Please make sure you share with all and direct
questions to the numbers listed or Human Resources.
https://www.northoaks.org/~/your-health-system/covid-19-updates/coupon-corner/
The Governor’s announcement on Monday will allow us to begin scheduling
time-sensitive procedures and testing. Scheduling is dependent upon COVID-testing
results and supply of PPE. Procedures and testing will be scheduled on
a first come, first served basis and 15 cases/day will be added starting
Monday. This will include surgery, IR, cath lab and endoscopy. We will
continue to perform emergency and urgent procedures.
