{"id":"OR-005","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Oregon","state":"OR","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Kate Brown","authority":"ORS 433.441(3)(b), (d), (f); ORS 401.168(1); ORS 401.188(1)-(3)","instrument":"Executive Order 20-10","title":"Conserving Personal Protective Equipment: Cancelling Elective and Non-urgent Procedures; Limiting Visitation","dateIssued":"2020-03-19","effective":"Procedures cancelled no later than 2020-03-23","end":"Ninety days as written; rescinded as of May 1, 2020 by EO 20-22","startDate":"2020-03-23","endDate":"2020-05-01","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["HC","SUPPLY"],"addressees":["hospitals","ambulatory surgery centers","outpatient clinics including community health clinics and student health centers","dental clinics","veterinary clinics","all industries using PPE"],"clause":"No later than March 23, 2020, all elective and non-urgent procedures across all care settings that utilize PPE, including but not limited to, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, outpatient clinics (including community health clinics and student health centers), dental clinics, and veterinary clinics, shall be cancelled, or rescheduled no earlier than June 15, 2020, for the purpose of conserving and redirecting PPE for the state\u0027s COVID-19 emergency response.... A procedure or surgery is exempt... if a three-month delay in the procedure or surgery would put the patient at risk of irreversible harm.","enforcement":"Para. 5: public health law (ORS 431A.005,.010); ORS 401.990 penalties; para. 3: surplus PPE to be surrendered to the State PPE Coordinator by Mar. 27, 2020","functions":["SX surgery and elective procedures","PR dental elective and aerosol procedures","CH chairside care","OC outpatient diagnostics","VS visitation (OHA screening guidance para. 4)","SC PPE supply (construction, farming, manufacturing \u0027strongly encouraged\u0027 to cancel non-essential PPE use)"],"notes":"The single most consequential Oregon health-care order: it emptied surgical and dental schedules from Mar. 23 for what was written as a near three-month period.","sourceUrl":"https://www.oregon.gov/gov/eo/eo_20-10.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":5087097,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"OR","url":"/library/OR-005","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/OR-005","citation":"Governor Kate Brown, Executive Order 20-10 (Mar. 19, 2020) (Ex. OR-005)","stateName":"Oregon","related":["OR-007","OR-006","OR-059","OR-003","OR-010","OR-002","OR-011","OR-001","OR-012","OR-060","OR-061","OR-013"]}