{"id":"NH-062","kind":"order","level":"sector-regulator","jurisdiction":"New Hampshire","state":"NH","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"DHHS Division of Public Health Services, Bureau of Infectious Disease Control","authority":"RSA 141-C; RSA 151","instrument":"Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Guidance for Long-term Care Facilities (July 1, 2020)","title":"COVID-19 Guidance for Long-term Care Facilities","dateIssued":"2020-07-01","effective":"2020-07-01","end":"Revised periodically through 2021","startDate":"2020-07-01","endDate":"2020-12-31","quarters":["2020Q3","2020Q4"],"types":["HC","QUAR"],"addressees":["nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities"],"clause":"All nursing home staff should be tested every 7-10 days. All residents in an affected facility/unit should be tested [every] 7 days, per CDC guidance and CMS guidance, until the outbreak is closed. Outbreaks are closed by the DPHS team 14 days after the last case onset at the facility.... [Staff] must be screened at the beginning of each shift... Staff can be allowed back to work when at least 10 days have passed since [symptom onset]","enforcement":"DHHS licensing; CMS conditions of participation","functions":["IC staff testing and screening","RS admissions and cohorting","WF staff exclusion","HR"],"notes":"","sourceUrl":"https://www.dhhs.nh.gov/dphs/cdcs/covid19/documents/covid-19-ltcguidance.pdf","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20200709070518/https://www.dhhs.nh.gov/dphs/cdcs/covid19/documents/covid-19-ltcguidance.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":888570,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"NH","url":"/library/NH-062","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/NH-062","citation":"DHHS Division of Public Health Services, Bureau of Infectious Disease Control, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Guidance for Long-term Care Facilities (July 1, 2020) (Ex. NH-062)","stateName":"New Hampshire","related":["NH-061","NH-065","NH-063","NH-064"]}