{"id":"AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-089","kind":"context","level":"state","jurisdiction":"California - Department of Public Health, Center for Health Care Quality","state":"CA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS","eco":"","issuer":"CDPH, Center for Health Care Quality","authority":"22 CCR § 72523(c); the State Public Health Officer Orders recited","instrument":"AFL 20-53.6, COVID-19 Mitigation Plan Recommendations for Testing of Health Care Personnel and Residents at Skilled Nursing Facilities (revision of Dec. 27, 2021; series begun May 2020)","title":"SNF testing regime (series from May 2020): staff and resident testing under the mitigation plan; the Dec. 27, 2021 revision adds booster requirements and twice-weekly testing of unvaccinated exempt and unboosted staff","dateIssued":"2021-12-27","effective":"series in force from May 2020; revision.6 effective Dec. 27, 2021 (post-period)","end":"revised further in 2022","startDate":"2021-12-27","endDate":"","quarters":[],"types":["HC","EMP","VAX","QUAR"],"addressees":["all skilled nursing facilities"],"clause":"This AFL provides updated recommendations from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) for [testing of health care personnel and residents]... prioritized for COVID-19 testing and vaccination as soon as vaccines became available in late December 2020.... This AFL revision notifies SNFs of the December 22, 2021 Public Health Order and requires SNF HCP to receive boosters and be up to date with vaccinations by February 1, 2022, unless exempt.... Facilities must begin testing of all booster-eligible HCP who have not yet received their booster by December 27, 2021.","enforcement":"22 CCR § 72523(c); Health \u0026 Safety Code §§ 1280.1, 120295","functions":["IC infection control (staff and resident testing cadence)","HR workforce (vaccination and booster status)","OF documentation"],"notes":"The exhibit is the current (Dec. 27, 2021) text of a series that governed SNF testing from May 2020; the in-period versions are recited in it. Graded primary for the text read; the in-period versions were not separately retrieved.","sourceUrl":"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/Pages/AFL-20-53.aspx","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":227615,"grade":"secondary","character":"context","description":"","collection":"AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS","url":"/library/AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-089","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-089","citation":"CDPH, Center for Health Care Quality, AFL 20-53.6, COVID-19 Mitigation Plan Recommendations for Testing of Health Care Personnel and Residents at Skilled Nursing Facilities (revision of Dec. 27, 2021; series begun May 2020) (Ex. AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS-089)","stateName":"California","related":[]}