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- Jurisdiction
- Pennsylvania - Department of Health (State health department) · Pennsylvania
- Level
- State
- Authority
- 35 P.S. § 521.5 (recited as 35 P.S. §§ 521.1 [et seq.])
- Issued
- 2020-04-01 Apr. 1, 2020
- Effective
- immediately (read as 2020-04-01)
- End
- 'until further notice' (a Termination of the ASF reporting order was posted in January 2022 per the CDX listing) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Apr. 1, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersWorkplace rulesOther
- Addressees
- all ambulatory surgical facilities licensed in Pennsylvania
- Functions reached
- OF administration (daily reporting)
- SX surgery (the order presupposes the March 2020 cessation of elective procedures)
- SC supplies and equipment
- Collection
- State health department orders to licensed settings AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS
Operative words
Therefore, on this day, April 1, 2020, under the authority granted [to me by law, I hereby order]... [ambulatory surgical facilities that] have ceased or limited operations... in response to COVID-19 must complete the fields of the survey indicated... must complete the survey on the first day of its reopening and every operational day... Accordingly, it is hereby ordered that all ambulatory surgical facilities shall complete [the survey]... [This] Order shall take effect immediately and remain in full force and effect until further notice.
Enforcement
35 P.S. § 521.20; facility licensure
Notes
Recites that ambulatory surgical facilities 'have ceased or limited operations' under the March 2020 orders.