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Ex. MET-LA-066 Order Primary source read

Order of the Health Officer for Control of COVID-19: Prevention of COVID-19 Transmission in Licensed Congregate Health Care Facilities (Apr. 24, 2020)

Order of the Health Officer for Control of COVID-19: Prevention of COVID-19 Transmission in Licensed Congregate Health Care Facilities

County of Los Angeles Health Officer · Los Angeles County Public Health Jurisdiction (County)

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Jurisdiction
Los Angeles County Public Health Jurisdiction · Los Angeles · California
Level
County
Authority
Cal. Health & Safety Code secs. 101040, 101085, 120175
Issued
2020-04-24 Apr. 24, 2020
Effective
2020-04-24 (immediately) until rescinded, superseded or amended (read as 2020-04-24)
End
Superseded as to skilled nursing facilities Oct. 5, 2020 (Ex. MET-LA-024); remained in force for other licensed congregate facilities until rescinded (2023 rescission order) (read as 2020-10-05)
In force
Apr. 24, 2020 to Oct. 5, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Face-covering requirementHealth care ordersWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolation
Addressees
  • licensed congregate health care facilities (SNFs, intermediate care, congregate living health facilities, hospice facilities)
Functions reached
  • VS visitation prohibited
  • DN dining and activities suspended
  • IC infection control and PPE
  • HR staff cohorting
  • RS admissions and cohorting
Collection
Los Angeles MET-LA

Operative words

The Facility shall prohibit all visitors, including volunteers and non-essential workers, such as barbers... The Facility shall suspend all communal dining and activities. All meals are to be served within individual rooms.... The Facility shall require all staff to wear a surgical mask at all times while in the Facility.... All staff providing care to patients in the established COVID-19 area of the Facility are not to work or enter into any other area of the Facility until 14 days have passed from their last exposure

Enforcement

Cal. Health & Safety Code sec. 120295

Notes

Reached hospice, home-care and staffing vendors serving these facilities; Long Beach and Pasadena issued parallel orders (listed, not saved)