Recommendations
Specific Recommendations
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Resources for Healthcare Facilities
- Resources and updates overall
- CDC’s hospital preparedness landing page with resources
- CDC’s healthcare professionals preparedness checklist
- CDC’s case tracker
- Interim Guidance: Get Your Mass Gatherings or Large Community Events Ready for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Interim Guidance: Get Your Community- and Faith-Based Organizations Ready for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Preventing COVID-19 Spread in Communities including guidance for homes, schools, and workplaces
- Geographic Risk Assessment for COVID-19 Transmission
- Steps Healthcare Facilities Can Take Now to Prepare for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Resources and updates overall
- CMS’s quality, safety and oversight guidance and updates
- CMS’s coding guidance for COVID-19
World Health Organization (WHO)
- Resources and global updates on guidance
- WHO’s technical guidance for infection prevention, operational support, and updated communications
American Hospital Association (AHA)
Suggestions for faith communities
- Information sheet for churches from Everence
- Making sure community contact lists are up to date and that ‘calling trees’ or other practices for accounting for individuals who may be living alone, elderly, and vulnerable are in place
- Considering how liturgical practices can be adapted to minimize hand contact
- Reviewing community calendars and making decisions on which events may need to be canceled and by when
- Establishing the routine cleaning of sanctuaries, kitchen halls, and other communal spaces; and so many more helpful ideas and practices
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