It’s Friday, May 1, 2020. As we begin a new month, we mark our 46th straight day of COVID-19 active response. We’ve been operating under
the Stay at Home Order for 39 days.
State Stats: 28,001 COVID-19 cases in 64/64 parishes with 1,862 deaths and 17,303 recovered.
Hospitalizations decreased to 1,601, and the number of patients on vents
decreased to 231.
North Oaks Stats: We have 21 COVID-19 positive patients in-house, 1 PUI and 5 patients on
vents. Our team is doing such a great job caring for our patients that
we were able to discharge another 3 COVID-19 patients, bringing total
survivors to 124. We did have 1 death yesterday of a COVID-19 positive
Hospice patient.
Population Health conducted 78 calls and 13 video visits yesterday.
The COVID-19 Drive-thru Testing Station opened today with 50 patients scheduled
and 13 in the cue. In total, we have tested 1,897 patients with 427 positives
and 58 pending.
Employee Wellness reports 15 employees self-monitoring at home with 3 employees
cleared to return to work yesterday and 7 expected to be cleared today.
Employees’ insurance premiums continue to be waived for medical,
dental and spousal surcharges.
Employees may access information on COVID-19 relief resources via their
leader/manager, Human Resources, the “COVID-19 Financial Offers”
section of the “Coupon Corner” on OakLink or
here. Resources include:
An additional change was put into place this morning to assist employees,
who are full-time and worked less than 40 hours in a 2-week period or
who are part-time and worked less than 20 hours in a 2-week period. Their
ability to accrue PTO had previously been stopped. As of today, these
employees will be able to accrue PTO for the 5/14 and 5/18 pay period.
The Signature Building entrance will be closed Saturday, May 2 and Sunday,
May 3. Please use the Tower Entrance to enter and exit the hospital instead.
With the opening of the Diagnostic Center and the increase in Clinic volume,
we are expecting PPE utilization to trend up as well. We will continue
to monitor PPE utilization and flexing of staff in all departments to
volume very closely.
Staff members who are responsible for making patient update calls are reminded
to set realistic expectations with family members on when they can expect
to receive said phone calls and also to follow-thru on making the calls
as promised. This will go a long way in relieving family members’
anxiety pertaining to their concern and separation from their hospitalized
loved one.
Starting next week, 10 a.m. Leadership Calls and Update Emails will move
to a frequency of Monday-Wednesday-Friday. If the need arises for Leadership
Calls and Update Emails to return to daily frequency, Leadership will
be notified of such through the First Alert system.
CMO Rob Peltier, MD, will continue his radio call-ins to Tangi 96.5 FM
at 7:10 a.m. next week with a Monday-Wednesday-Friday frequency. In case
you miss these interviews, you can access them at any time via our website blog
here.
We will premier our 11th video update to the community with Dr. Peltier on Facebook this afternoon.
