The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Florida - Agency for Health Care Administration · Florida
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Rulemaking authority 408.819, 408.821(4), F.S.; Law Implemented 408.819, 408.821(4) F.S. (recited)
- Issued
- 2020-07-15 July 15, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-07-15
- End
- superseded Aug. 5, 2020 by 59AER20-8 (read as 2020-08-05)
- In force
- July 15, 2020 to Aug. 5, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- Functions reached
- IP discharge planning and bed capacity (positive LTC residents held in hospital)
- DX diagnostics
- IN long-term care intake
- Collection
- State health department orders to licensed settings AGY-ST-HEALTH-SUBORDERS
Operative words
(a) Every hospital must test any long-term care facility resident whose COVID-19 status is unknown using a RT-PCR molecular assay laboratory test that has been given Emergency Use Authorization from the Food and Drug Administration... (c) A long-term care facility resident that has tested positive for COVID-19 or is symptomatic must be isolated by the hospital pursuant to the hospital's [isolation protocols and may not be discharged to a long-term care facility until]... 1. Symptom-based strategy:... a. At least 3 days (72 hours) have passed since resolution of fever without the use of fever-reducing medications; and... c. At least 10 days have passed since symptoms first appeared. 2. Test-based strategy... (4) This rule supersedes emergency rule 59AER20-1.... EFFECTIVE DATE: July 15, 2020
Enforcement
Fla. Stat. §§ 395.1065, 408.813
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