With the large amount of rapidly changing information regarding the COVID-19 (coronavirus) which has now reached our geographic treatment areas, we would like to provide an update to our clients. First and foremost, please encourage all your team members to engage in community infection control practices–frequent hand washing, covering your mouth when coughing/sneezing, avoid touching your face, and staying at home when ill. We do recommend avoidance of requiring work excuses for absences during this time period. We also recommend you begin planning stages for maintaining operations in the face of significant work absences. If a team member does need to be seen for fever, respiratory complaints, or any other screening for COVID-19, please contact us as soon as possible so that we may either make arrangements or prepare our care center. Remember the current guidelines for testing are fever/respiratory symptoms and travel to a high risk area (China, Japan, Italy, Iran, and S. Korea) in the last 14 days. Please avoid contact with those of a known positive case of COVID-19 and those with respiratory symptoms requiring physician or hospital care. Those guidelines are likely to change over the course of time as cases increase, and we will be sure to update you as the situation evolves. We do encourage that referrals for testing adhere to these guidelines as unnecessary exposures will interfere with our ability to maintain routine day-to-day operations to best serve your team members!
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