The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Georgia
- Level
- State
- Authority
- O.C.G.A. 38-3-51(d)(1), (i); 31-2A-4; 31-12-4
- Issued
- 2020-04-08 Apr. 8, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-04-08
- End
- 2020-09-15 11:59 P.M. (stated expiry Apr. 30, 2020; extended with the PHE; expiry fixed by EO 09.30.20.02, Ex. GA-028 at 28) (read as 2020-09-15)
- In force
- Apr. 8, 2020 to Sept. 15, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- intermediate care facilities, personal care homes, skilled nursing facilities, nursing homes, inpatient hospice, assisted living communities, community living arrangements, community integration homes
- Functions reached
- RS residential care admissions and cohorting
- VS visitation prohibited
- IC infection control and staff screening
- IN intake from hospitals
- HR staffing
- CB families
- Collection
- Georgia GA
Operative words
That Facilities shall implement the following protocols. 1. Adhere to the guidelines for non-critical infrastructure businesses issued in Executive Order 04.02.20.01. 2. Adhere to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and Georgia Department of Public Health guidance. 3. Adopt an infectious disease transfer communication protocol with local hospitals... Prohibit all visitors and non-essential personnel, except [enumerated]... Georgia National Guard directives and guidance shall be mandatory
Enforcement
Violation a misdemeanor; DPH may assume management of a noncomplying facility (38-3-51(i)); DPS to assist
Notes
Long-term-care mandates continued inside every Empowering a Healthy Georgia order after Sept. 15, 2020, with DPH directives 'mandatory for all Long-Term Care Facilities' through June 30, 2021 (Exs. GA-028, GA-034, GA-035, GA-038).