Placement of COVID-positive Patients

For reminder and further clarification regarding the placement of COVID-positive patients:

Patients with diagnosis of COVID within 10 days of symptom onset

1. Patients with active symptoms and newly diagnosed COVID (less than 10 days) will be placed on the designated unit.
2. Patients presenting to the Emergency Department with other complaints and no known history of COVID, and are found to be incidentally positive, will be placed on a designated unit.
3. Patients who test positive during their hospital stay will be placed on a designated unit.

Patients diagnosed with COVID GREATER than 10 days and require admission to the hospital

1. Patient with diagnosis of COVID longer than 10 days with mild-moderate disease DO NOT NEED COVID ISOLATION.
2. Patients with diagnosis of COVID longer than 10 days but fewer than 20 days and have SEVERE DISEASE will be PLACED ON THE COVID UNIT.

Removal from the COVID Unit:

1. Patients with mild-moderate disease, who are clinically improving will be moved off the COVID unit at 10 days.
2. Patients with severe COVID disease who are NOT Immunocompromised (patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and acquired hypogammaglobulinemia, lymphoma and immunochemotherapy, hematopoietic stem-cell transplant, chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, or AIDS, etc.) may be moved off the designated floor at 15 days as they clinically improve.
3. Patients with severe COVID disease who are Immunocompromised (patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and acquired hypogammaglobulinemia, lymphoma and immunochemotherapy, hematopoietic stem-cell transplant, chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, or AIDS, etc.) may be moved off the designated unit after 20 days.