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25 | The San Bruno Regional Office - San Jose Unit held a joint conference call today with the CA Department of Public Health (CDPH) to collaborate with the facility and ensure concerns regarding COVID-19 Infection Control and Mitigation procedures are addressed and that the facility is able to comply.
Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD) Regional Manager (RM) Vivien Helbling, Acting Assistant Program Administrator (AAPA) Krystall Moore, Program Clinical Consultant (PCC) Helen Shi, Licensing Program Analyst (LPA) Steve Nguyen, LPA Gladys Kuizon, and CDPH Health Facilities Evaluator Nurse (HFEN) Rebekah Bird-Wohlgemuth met with facility representatives Kurt Gursu (Executive Director), Jason Walthour (Regional Vice President), Jen Johnson (National Director of Care Management), and Jay Thomas (Assistant General Counsel).
CCLD informed the facility of reports received by the Department regarding observations of stakeholders during on site visits. Concerns regarding entrance screening procedures, symptom checking, trash bins, communal dining, and hand hygiene were discussed.
Executive Director (ED) stated the facility's response as follows:
1. Screening procedures: The facility has been following strict entrance screening protocols. Any visitor coming into the facility is screened at the main entrance building and once screening is completed, if a visitor is entering another building with a separate entrance, an associate will call staff at that building to advise that visitor has been screened and is approved to enter. ED stated that for an observer, this might seem like a visitor is coming in without being screened but that is not the case. Any visitor will be denied entry without being screened for COVID-19 symptoms and following screening protocols.
Continued, see LIC 809-C, page 2 of 2. |