Prevention and outbreak management resources to support your facility’s response to COVID-19.
Long-Term Care, Assisted Living COVID-19 Resource Toolkit
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(10/09/2020)5.59 MB
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Prevention audit
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Outbreak management
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Operations (processes, admissions)
- Notification and Management Processes for Suspected/Confirmed Cases
- Admissions/Transfers from Acute Care to LTC, AL & Convalescent Care
- LTC - Transfers for Medical Care
- AL – Transfers for Medical Care
- Client Access to Essential Clinical Services
- Essential Visits Protocol
- Student Placement Strategy
- Guidance for External Contractors
- Food and Essential Care Items Brought in for Patients
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Logistics
- Staff Protocol for Monitoring & Testing Poster
- Staff Symptom Monitoring Poster
- Requesting Staff Form Cheat Sheet
- Workflow for Collecting Nasopharyngeal Swabs
- Sample Virology Requisition Form
- Staffing Request for Service Form
- Droplet Precautions Requirements for New Admissions or Returning Residents/Tenants
- BCCDC Sample Container Order Form
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Resources (tools, algorithms, forms, posters)
- Equipment and Enhanced Cleaning Guidelines
- Personal protective Equipment (PPE) Framework
- Donning and Doffing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Eye/Facial Protection Cleaning and Disinfection Instructions
- Aerosol Generating Procedures Standard Operating Procedures
- Aerosol Generating Procedures Standard Operating Procedures (reference Table)
- Fraser Health COVID-19 Screening Process
- Public Health Tool 27: Resident Illness Report and Tracking Form
- Public Health Tool 28: Staff Illness Report and Tracking Form
- Tips for Completing Public Health Tools 27 & 28
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Posters
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Clinical practice resources
- Skills Checklist – Nasopharyngeal Swab
- Collecting a Nasopharyngeal Specimen for Culture
- Fraser Health Transportation of Dangerous Goods Standard Operating Procedure
- Regional Pre-Printed Orders for COVID-19 – LTC
- Serious Illness Conversations: Tool for Clinicians
- Serious Illness Conversation Guide for Substitute Decision Makers
- LTC Short Term Care Plan
- Hypodermoclysis in Long Term Care – Lesson Plan
- AL Short Term Care Plan
- Guidelines for CPR in Clients with COVID-19
- Transportation of Dangerous Goods Packing
- Clinical Protocol: Step Down from Outbreak: A Balanced Approach
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Physician resources
Latest updates
- LTC COVID Recommendations Summary - July 24, 2020
- LTC COVID-19 Physician Memo 9 - June 25, 2020
- COVID-19 LTC Update – March 16, 2020
Task force bulletins
- LTC COVID-19 Physician Memo 9 – June 25, 2020
- LTC Physician Task Force memos – May 29, 2020
- LTC Physician Task Force memos – May 15, 2020
- LTC Physician Task Force memos – May 8, 2020
- LTC Physician Task Force memos – April 24, 2020
- LTC Physician Task Force memos – April 8, 2020
- LTC Physician Task Force memos – April 3, 2020
- LTC Physician Task Force memos – March 24, 2020
- LTC Physician Task Force memos – March 17, 2020
Admissions and transfer of patients
- Algorithm for admissions to LTC, convalescent care and assisted living during COVID-19 - April 22, 2020 - See Operations accordian - Admissions/Transfers from Acute Care to LTC, AL & Convalescent Care
- COVID-19 LTC resident transfers - March 31, 2020 - See Operations accordian LTC - Transfers for Medical Care
Testing and caring for patients with COVID-19
- MHO Alert: Changes and clarification regarding testing - April 24, 2020
- Revised COVID-19 testing guidelines - March 14, 2020
- Substitute swab for COVID-19 - March 13, 2020
- LTC COVID-19 swab flowchart
- Clinical decision pathway in LTC residents
- Management strategies for wandering and restlessness in COVID-19 positive patients with dementia - April 27, 2020
- COVID-19 end of life symptom management
- CPSBC - Guidance for certifying COVID-19 deaths
- COVID-19 LTC AL prevention suspected confirmed outbreak process - April 7, 2020 - See Operations accordian - Notification & Management Processes for Suspected/Confirmed Cases
Sample pre-print forms
- LTC COVID-19 PPO - April 24, 2020
- Actively dying protocol caring for residents in final days
- COVID-19 confirmed or pending LTC – April 30, 2020 (DRDO107531A) - See Clinical Resources accordian - Regional Pre-Printed Orders for COVID-19 - LTC
Additional resources
- Doctors of BC Telehealth COVID-19 FAQ
- LTC and assisted living information for residents and families
- Physician Handbook for Dealth Certificates
- COVID-19 LTC visitor poster - April 2020 - See Poster accordian
