The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Travis County, Texas (all healthcare facilities) · Austin · Texas
- Level
- County
- Authority
- Tex. Health & Safety Code §§ 81.082 and 81.084 (control measures), as recited
- Issued
- 2020-03-13 Mar. 13, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-13
- In force
- Mar. 13, 2020 to June 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- all healthcare facilities in Travis County (hospitals, clinics, physician and dental offices and other licensed facilities)
- Functions reached
- CL/FD clinical intake and front desk: screening of every entrant
- WF staff screened before entry; symptomatic staff excluded
- VS visitors screened and excluded
- IC infection control plans
- SC signage and sanitizer supply
- Collection
- Austin MET-AUS
Operative words
Pursuant to Texas Health & Safety Code §§ 81.082 and 81.084, I, the Medical Director and Health Authority for Austin Public Health, hereby issues this order imposing the following specified control measures on all healthcare facilities in Travis County: 'Help Prevent Disease' signage... must be displayed prominently in the facility...; Hand sanitizer must be available and supplied to employees, patients, visitors, and volunteers; The facility must symptom check all employees, patients, visitors, and volunteers prior to entry to the facility; The facility may not allow any persons into the facility who exhibit symptoms of COVID-19, unless they are patients; The facility will develop a plan to screen, identify and, when required, isolate individuals and patients presenting to healthcare facilities using CDC recommendations...
Enforcement
Tex. Health & Safety Code ch. 81 control-measure order; penalty not recited
Notes
Run-up instrument (March 13, 2020) reaching every physician, dental and outpatient office in the county; no stated end date; treated as in force through 2020 Q2 at least (successor or rescission not in exhibits).