Weekly Progress Notes June 10

COVID-19 Updates

Unit Changes

We have closed 2400 as a COVID unit due to the continued and sustained drop in COVID patients. This unit will remain closed until needed for non-COVID med/surg volume. It will also stay intact with HEPA filters should we need the flexibility to use it for COVID in the future. Suburban’s current COVID units are 3200, 3400 and 6400.

 

Resuming In-Person Care at Outpatient Facilities

On May 18, JHM announced that six Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) opened for select elective adult and pediatric surgeries and procedures. On June 3, JHM resumed offering more in-person primary and specialty care at its hospital-based outpatient clinics and community-based practices across the system. Read this memo for more information and click here to read about the measures JHM is taking to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 when patients come in for care. Be on the lookout for additional information on the resumption of ambulatory care and elective procedures at Suburban.

  

End-of-Life Visitation

A maximum of 2 visitors total (NOT 2 visitors at a time) are permitted for a visit at end-of-life. Please review the policy for visitors of patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 at Suburban Hospital for end-of-life or other circumstances. For additional guidance, please download the visitor exception workflow algorithm.

 

COVID-19 Self-Monitoring and Testing

Please download and continue to use this self-monitoring log. You can also download the JHM emocha Health self-monitoring app from the app store and follow the instructions sent via text message to enable remote clinical monitoring and engagement. The Employee COVID-19 Call Center (ECCC) is open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week and can be reached at 443-287-8600 or 833-546-7546 to answer questions and schedule testing at Suburban’s drive-through site. 

As the capacity for COVID-19 testing increases, employees may be tested in locations other than Johns Hopkins Medicine. Even if you have no symptoms, employees are required to report any positive RNA-based COVID-19 test (not the antibody test) to Occupational Health Services so that appropriate follow-up can be conducted. Download this memo to learn more.

 

PPE Reminders

Universal masking remains in effect for all parts of the hospital. Anyone who enters a patient room must wear a face mask and face shield. Staff can get a new face mask if your current one is damaged, soiled or moist. Contact your nursing supervisor for a replacement mask. Staff are also able to get a new face shield if the one you have is damaged or cracked. Security in the North Building Main Lobby can give you a new one and also refill hand sanitizer bottles.

Please continue to wear an N95 mask in the ED as we continue to see both COVID and non-COVID patients. You do not need to wear an N95 on non-COVID units, including 2400.

White Coats for Black Lives Commemoration

As part of a national effort to demonstrate support for equality and racial justice, the Johns Hopkins House Staff Diversity Council organized a #WhiteCoatsForBlackLivesobservance. On Friday, June 5 at 1 p.m., staff from across JHM came together at their respective locations to commemorate George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and the many black lives lost to police brutality. While led by physicians-in-training, the observance was not just for doctors. The white coat represents health care as a profession, and we are all committed to the care of our patients and community.

 

Pre-registration is required prior to class. To register, email Dorothy Atatsi at datatsi1@jh.edu. Give the expiration date of your current card, department and best phone number where you may be reached.

 

Please Bring/Wear to Class:

• Your mask, hand sanitizer and water bottle (no food)
• Old CPR Card

Review the CPR materials (on your unit) and check your work email.

 

Location: 6001 Montrose Road, Suite 200 A, Rockville, MD 20852

(Parking will be validated)

Pre-registration required prior to class

 

If you’re unable to attend, please cancel at least 48 hours ahead of scheduled class. Call 301-896-3838 Monday to Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

 

 

 

 

MEDICAL STAFF CALENDAR

 

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION 

Johns Hopkins Medicine Continuing Medical Education Series 

June 10: Assistant Professor Summer Lecture Series “Developing Glutamine Antagonists to Precisely Target Molecular Subgroups of Pediatric Cancers”—to be streamed online via Zoom (Meeting ID: 966 0114 7697; Password: 851844). Text CME Code 22763 to 443-541-5052 up to eight hours after the event.

June 12: Oncology Grand Rounds “Updates in the Management of Metastatic Gastrointestinal and Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors,” “Surgical approach to metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor” and “Use of Lu177 Dotatate in Neuroendocrine Tumors”—to be streamed online via Zoom (Meeting ID: 982 8898 9597; Password: 787849).

 

 

EPIC TIPS OF THE WEEK 

Arrival COVID-19 Screening Tool (Patient Guide)