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Where can I find technical guidance on medical and logistical issues related to COVID-19 if I'm a health care professional, health provider, addiction services provider, or mental health provider ?
Health Care Professionals and Public Health Providers
For health care professionals and public health providers, the New Jersey Department of Health has published several resources on COVID-19 including:
- Public health reporting guidance for COVID-19
- Recommendations for long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Priority actions for all post-acute care settings in response to COVID-19
- Outbreak management checklists for long-term care and post-acute care providers
- Providing routine immunizations during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Surveillance criteria and testing for COVID-19
- Guidance on assessing your risk after exposure to confirmed cases of COVID-19
- Guidance on discontinuation of transmission-based precautions and home isolation for patients diagnosed with COVID-19
- Guidance on monitoring and movement for healthcare personnel exposed to confirmed cases of COVID-19
- A tool for health care professionals to assess retrospective risk for exposure to patients with COVID-19
- Guidance on testing for COVID-19
- A fever and symptom monitoring log
- And more
To access DOH's COVID-19 resources for health care professionals, visit: https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/covid2019_healthcare.shtml
To access DOH's COVID-19 resources for public health professionals, visit: https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/covid2019_professionals.shtml
Mental Health and Addiction Providers
The Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services has issued guidance to Opioid Treatment Programs on reducing the incidence and transmission of COVID-19 at facilities, planning for staff shortages, dosing patients in separate rooms, take-home dosing, patients quarantined at home with the COVID-19, telehealth, medication shortages, and DEA assistance.
The Division has also released guidelines for continuity planning and best practice for contracted Provider Agencies in responding to COVID-19. Additional guidance related to COVID-19 and mental health and addiction services is available on the Department of Human Services Novel Coronavirus page: https://nj.gov/humanservices/coronavirus.html
Source: https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/covid2019_healthcare.shtml; https://nj.gov/humanservices/coronavirus.html