{"id":"AR-059","kind":"order","level":"sector-regulator","jurisdiction":"Arkansas","state":"AR","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Secretary of Health, Arkansas Department of Health","authority":"Ark. Code Ann. 20-7-109 to -110","instrument":"ADH Directive on Resuming Elective Procedures, Phase IV (effective May 25, 2020; testing timeframe revised July 6; pre-procedure testing rescinded effective Aug. 1, 2020)","title":"Elective procedures: history of the April 27 resumption and its testing conditions; symptomatic-patient testing, contact exclusion and two-visitor limit continued","dateIssued":"2020-08-03","effective":"2020-08-01","end":"2021-02-26 (guidance)","startDate":"2020-08-01","endDate":"2021-02-26","quarters":["2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1"],"types":["HC"],"addressees":["hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physicians"],"clause":"On April 3, 2020, the Secretary of Health... issued a directive that elective procedures in the state would cease.... the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) developed requirements for the resumption of elective procedures beginning on April 27, 2020 under specified conditions.... On May 18, 2020, while a negative COVID-19 NAAT test result within 48 hours prior to procedure was still strongly encouraged, the requirement was modified to extend the timeframe for a negative test to within 72 hours... On July 6, 2020 the timeframe requirement... was further extended to 120 hours (5 days)... Effective August 1, 2020... the requirement for a negative COVID-19 test prior to elective procedures is rescinded.... III. For any patient with symptoms potentially due to COVID-19 prior to a procedure, a negative COVID-19 test via PCR is required... IV. Patients with contact to known COVID-19 patients within the preceding 14 days shall not undergo elective procedures.... VII. Visitation is limited to family or household members only with no more than 2 per visit.","enforcement":"Ark. Code Ann. 20-7-101 misdemeanor; EO 20-37 par. 3","functions":["SX surgery and elective procedures","OC outpatient","VS visitation","SC PPE reserve required","CB patients"],"notes":"Excludes hospitals under sixty beds and critical access hospitals; requires \u0027an ample supply of PPE... while maintaining a reserve\u0027.","sourceUrl":"https://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/images/uploads/pdf/elective_surgery_phase_4.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200805000000/https://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/images/uploads/pdf/elective_surgery_phase_4.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":132073,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AR","url":"/library/AR-059","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AR-059","citation":"Secretary of Health, Arkansas Department of Health, ADH Directive on Resuming Elective Procedures, Phase IV (effective May 25, 2020; testing timeframe revised July 6; pre-procedure testing rescinded effective Aug. 1, 2020) (Aug. 3, 2020) (Ex. AR-059)","stateName":"Arkansas","related":["AR-040","AR-071","AR-060","AR-061","AR-063","AR-050","AR-057","AR-072","AR-062","AR-052","AR-049","AR-055"]}