COVID-19 – Information and Guidance for Bethlehem staff – full resource page for edit

As a condition of entry, visitors must:

• Not visit if you are unwell or meet any of the criteria below that would prohibit your entry to the facility
• Be screened for signs of COVID-19 on entry and answer the screening questions set out below before proceeding to the ward or clinic reception
• Register your details in the visitor screening station and wear the provided sticker after passing screening, which must be visible to staff at all times
• ALL Visitors to Bethlehem are required to wear an N95 mask in place of a surgical mask, supplied by CHCB.
• All adult visitors aged 18 years or older must wear an N95 mask

Questions visitors are required to answer on entry:

1. 1. Do you feel unwell or have a fever (Temp >37.5 degrees) or signs of fever (e.g. night sweats, chills)?
   2. Do you have, or have you had over the past 14 days, any respiratory symptoms (e.g. shortness of breath, cough, sore throat, and runny nose, cold/flu like symptoms, body aches, tiredness, and loss of smell or taste)?
   3. Have you had contact with a person with a suspected or confirmed case of COVID-19 in the last 14 days?
   4. Have you visited, or arrived here from, an area of high or medium COVID risk (please note that this includes all Victorian and interstate Exposure sites); or worked or volunteered in a hotel quarantine site in the past 14 days?
   5. Have you been tested for COVID-19 in the past 14 days and had either a positive result or are still waiting on the test result?
   6. I have been a resident in hotel quarantine in the last 7 days, and I DO NOT have evidence of a negative COVID-19 test 7 days post leaving hotel quarantine?

    

If you answer YES to any of the above questions, visiting is not to be permitted.

St Teresa’s

For patients who are in the terminal phase of care or deteriorating rapidly;  2 visitors at any time; with allowances for individual family needs managed by exception and in charge nurse approval

All other patients 2 visitors at a time and no more than 2 visitors per day for approved ‘special purpose’ visits

Clinic or other on-site appointments

Limit of one carer/support person with the patient at any one time

• Limit of two (2) carer/support person with the patient at any one time; exceptions may be granted by prior arrangement with the relevant staff for your appointment

• Visits with a patient taking place outside must be pre-arranged with the nurse in charge
• All visitors intending to be present at a visit with a patient taking place outside, must enter and complete the screening and registration process prior to the visit commencing, a limit of two (2) at any one time
• Due to vulnerability of our patients, visitors outside are requested to maintain physical distancing requirements and wear a mask for the duration of the visit

Day leave may be possible through prior arrangement, please discuss with the nurse in charge.

All entrants to Calvary facilities are required to have their temperature checked and will be asked a series of COVID-19 related questions.

Calvary is committed to minimising the potential risk of COVID-19 transmission and maintaining a safe environment for all employees, visitors, patients and residents entering and moving within our services.

When arriving at a Calvary facility you will be asked to sanitise your hands at a station located at the entry point.

Once your hands have been sanitised you can move forward to a screening station and follow the prompts.

Visitors to any of Calvary’s four trial sites will be required to present to a screening station to have their temperature taken.

Once your temperature check has been completed the screening station will ask for the purpose of your visit, your mobile phone number and name for contract tracing purposes.

The screening station will then ask a series of COVID-19 related questions.

You will then be asked to declare that your responses are accurate before you can move away from the screening station.

You will receive an SMS confirmation and be asked to proceed to Reception for a screening sticker.

This sticker indicates to Calvary staff that you have been screened and can move around the facility.

If you present to a screening station and you have a temperature equal to or greater than 37.5 degrees Celsius you will be instructed to leave the facility and call Reception for further instruction.

Please do not enter the facility if you record a temperature of equal to or greater than 37.5 degrees Celsius.

If you have completed the screening process but not received an SMS confirmation, proceed to Reception and provide your name and phone number so a Calvary staff member can validate your entry and provide you with a screening sticker.

You will be able to use a landline number instead of a mobile phone number.

In this scenario you will be asked to present to Reception and provide your name and phone number so a Calvary staff member can validate your entry and provide you with a screening sticker.

Under current COVID-19 Pandemic requirements, Calvary is required to retain information related to entrant screening, date and time of entry, and contact details of entrants for the purposes of contact tracing.

All data collected during the screening process is secured by Calvary and its partner, Rate It Australia Pty Ltd (Zipline).

The tablet used to conduct the screening process does not hold any data, all data is secured on Zipline’s Australian based servers.

The screening stations are cleaned a minimum of twice per day with an increased cleaning frequency during high use periods.

Calvary staff will be available to assist you in completing the screening process.

Please ask for assistance if you require it.