{"id":1277,"date":"2020-10-13T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2020-11-11T10:35:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:35:56","slug":"covid-19-testing-of-personnel-providing-non-urgent-medical-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/guidelines\/covid-19-testing-of-personnel-providing-non-urgent-medical-transportation\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 testing of personnel providing non-urgent medical transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TO:<\/strong> Ohio medical transportation providers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FROM:<\/strong> James Hodge, Chief, Bureau of Regulatory Operations, Ohio Department of Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DATE:<\/strong> Oct. 13, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RE:<\/strong> COVID-19 testing of personnel providing non-urgent medical transportation for nursing home residents<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of ongoing efforts to minimize the transmission of COVID-19 among Ohio\u2019s vulnerable nursing home residents, personnel providing non-urgent medical transportation to this population should be tested for the virus. Examples of non-urgent medical transportation are ambulettes and non-emergent emergency medical services (EMS) transports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personnel providing such services should be tested by the nursing facility or provide documentation that required testing was completed during the timeframe that corresponds to the facility\u2019s testing frequency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is in accordance with a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Interim Final Rule (CMS-3401-IFC)<\/a>, included in QSO-20-38-NH, dated Aug. 26, 2020, which provides that personnel providing services under arrangement to nursing home residents are to be tested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Affected personnel should work with appropriate facilities and local health departments to determine specific testing requirements to comply with this CMS directive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Individuals providing <\/strong>emergency services<\/strong><\/em>, such as EMS workers or law enforcement officers, are not required to undergo testing or show proof of testing, and they should not be delayed in responding to emergency situations.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional questions concerning COVID-19 testing requirements should be referred to the Ohio Department of Health Bureau of Regulatory Operations at (614) 644-6220.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TO: Ohio medical transportation providers FROM: James Hodge, Chief, Bureau of Regulatory Operations, Ohio Department of Health DATE: Oct. 13, 2020 RE: COVID-19 testing of personnel providing non-urgent medical transportation for nursing home residents As part of ongoing efforts to minimize the transmission of COVID-19 among Ohio\u2019s vulnerable nursing home residents, personnel providing non-urgent medical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,8],"tags":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Steve Weigold","author_link":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/author\/sweigold\/"},"featured_img":null,"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"twentytwenty-fullscreen":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Steve Weigold","author_link":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/author\/sweigold\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"TO: Ohio medical transportation providers FROM: James Hodge, Chief, Bureau of Regulatory Operations, Ohio Department of Health DATE: Oct. 13, 2020 RE: COVID-19 testing of personnel providing non-urgent medical transportation for nursing home residents As part of ongoing efforts to minimize the transmission of COVID-19 among Ohio\u2019s vulnerable nursing home residents, personnel providing non-urgent medical…","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["EMS Guidance and Information<\/a>","Guidelines<\/a>"],"unlinked":["EMS Guidance and Information<\/span>","Guidelines<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 5 years ago","modified":"Updated 5 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on October 13, 2020","modified":"Updated on November 11, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on October 13, 2020 10:29 am","modified":"Updated on November 11, 2020 10:35 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmvemsc.org\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}