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with the patient and resident, Also, staff as much as possible should not work acro� ,.,,s units or <br />floors. <br />i.. Long term care fiacilities should redeploy existing training related to consistent <br />assignment, and ensure, staff are &rn iliar with the signs and symptorns of COV ID M. <br />Long term care facilities should separate patients and residents who have COVID 19 Fro nn <br />patients and residents who do not, or have an unknown status. <br />i. To this end, long-term care facilities should -work,with State andjocap community <br />leaders to identify and designate facilities dedicated to patients and residents with <br />known C'OV111.1-19 .positive and those with suspected C'OVIDE 19, ensuring they are <br />separate from patients and residents who are COVID... 19 negative; <br />iE CMI19 .positive units, and facilities must be capable ani maintaining strict infection <br />controlP ractices and testing protocols, as required by regulat ion; <br />1. When possible, fiazilides shmAld exercise consistent assignment, or have <br />separate staffing tearns for 0.)VIIII.) 19 .positive and COVID 19 ,negative <br />11patients, <br />iii. Tliere rnay be a need for some of these COVID 11positive long-term care facilities <br />to have the capacity, staffing, and infi-astrucAure to rilanage Ihigher intensity patients, <br />inchJing ventihator rrianagern ent; <br />hi. State agencies includirig health departments, hospitals, and nursing horne associations <br />will have to ensure coordination anionfacilities to deterrnine which facilities will <br />have a designation and to provide adequate staff supplies and PPE; and, if possible, <br />isolate all admitted residents (nncpuding readmissions) in their room in the COVID <br />19 --positive facility for 14 days iftheir COVID ,19 status is unl<.nown; and <br />v, 1,ong-term care facilities shotild, to the fulh:;st extent possible, inform residents and <br />their families of firnitations of their access to and ability to leave and re enter the <br />.................................................... <br />facility, as well as any requirements and procedures for placement in alternative <br />facilities lFor COVID-19-posifive or unknown status. <br />M <br />