Health Care Facilities and Laboratories

The following documents provide guidance to Health Care facilities, including hospitals, long-term care facilities, acute care facilities, and skilled nursing facilities, as well as medical laboratories.

Health Care Facilities

• Standing Order For COVID-19 Testing SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) Test Prescribing Order For Specimen’s Received and Processed By Perkin Elmer Health Sciences Inc.
• Standing Order For SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) Testing Utilizing Provider Administered Point of Care Antigen Tests
• Standing Order For COVID-19 Testing SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) Locations Laboratory Test: SARS-COV-2 RT-PCR (8/4/2021)
• Standing Order For COVID-19 Testing SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) Test Prescribing Order For Specimen’s Received and Processed By Perkin Elmer Health Sciences Inc. (7/29/21)
• COVID-19 Testing Standing Order Jan. 12, 2021
• Guidelines for Discontinuation of In-Home Isolation and Transmission-Based Precautions among Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19
• Battelle Decontamination System Information
  • N95 Instructions
  • N95 Guidance
  • Mask Soil Guidance
  • Shipping Information
• Crisis Standards of Care – updated 7/14/2020
• Standing Order for COVID-19 Testing
• Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children Associated with COVID-19 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention health advisory, May 14, 2020)
• Considerations for Memory Care Units in Long-term Care Facilities (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Discontinuation of Transmission-Based Precautions and Disposition of Patients with COVID-19 in Health Care Settings (5/6/2020)
• Criteria for Return to Work for Health Care Personnel with Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19 (5/6/2020)
• Expansion of COVID-19 Testing Criteria (5/5/2020)
  • Ampliación de los Criterios de Prueba para COVID-19
  • Pagpapalawak ng Ekspansiyon ng COVID-19 at Pamantayan ng Pagsusuri
  • Laboratory Testing Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• 4/20 Updated Testing Criteria for COVID-19
  • 4/20 Criterios Actualizados para Pruebas de COVID-19
• Interim Guidelines for Discontinuation of In-Home Isolation and Transmission-Based Precautions Among Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 (3/18/2020)
  • Directrices Provisionales para el Descontinuo de Aislamiento en Casa y Precauciones Sobre Transmisión entre Pacientes Hospitalizados con el virus COVID-19
• 3/20 Updated Interim Testing Criteria for COVID-19
  • Criterios  de Prueba Provisional Actualizados para COVID-19
• 1/31 Health Care Facility Preparedness Checklist for Novel Coronavirus
• 1/31 Infection Prevention and Control
• 1/31 Evaluating Persons with Fever and Acute Respiratory Illness
• CDC Resources for Health Care Facilities
• FAQs on Diagnostic Testing for SARS-CoV-2

Hospitals

• Crisis Standards of Care – updated 7/14/2020
• 4/8 Technical Bulletin: Reporting COVID-19 Related Mortalities
• 3/31 Guidance for Public Health Management of Health Care Personnel (HCP) with Potential Exposure to Patients with (COVID-19) in Health Care Settings
• 3/30 Visitors Guide to Health Care Facilities
  • 3/30 Spanish Visitors Guide to Health Care Facilities
• 3/27 COVID-19 Guidance for Employers
• 3/27 Nevada State Board of Pharmacy Prescription Medications during COVID-19
• Nevada State Board of Pharmacy COVID-19 Information
• 1/31 Hospital Preparedness Checklist for Novel Coronavirus
• 1/31 Infection Prevention and Control
• 1/31 Evaluating Persons with Fever and Acute Respiratory Illness  
• Poster for Hospitals 
• Poster for Hospitals (Spanish) 
• CDC Comprehensive Hospital Preparedness Checklist for COVID-19
• CDC Resources for Health Care Facilities
• Nevada State Board of Pharmacy COVID-19 Information
• FAQs on Diagnostic Testing for SARS-CoV-2

Acute Care Facilities

• 3/27 Technical Bulletin #4 – Supplemental Guidance to Employers
  • Boletín Técnico #4 -Todos los Negocios e Industrias de Nev
• Technical Bulletin #3 – COVID-19 Guidance for Health Care Providers (3/25/2020)
• 1/31 Infection Prevention and Control
• Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) Requirements & Implications Related to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
• CMS Guidance for Infection Control and Prevention Concerning Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): FAQs and Considerations for Patient Triage, Placement and Hospital Discharge.
• CDC Interim Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Patients with Confirmed Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) or Persons under Investigation for COVID-19 in Health Care Settings
• CDC Resources for Health Care Facilities
• FAQs on Diagnostic Testing for SARS-CoV-2

Skilled Nursing Facilities

• 7/23 – COVID Testing in Nursing Homes
• Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training Course
• 3/27 Technical Bulletin #4 – Supplemental Guidance to Employers
• 3/25 Technical Bulletin #3 – Information for Health Care Providers
• 1/31 Infection Prevention and Control
• CDC Strategies to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 in Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCF), Nursing Homes
• CDC Interim Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Patients with Confirmed Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) or Persons under Investigation for COVID-19 in Health Care Settings
• CMS Guidance for Infection Control and Prevention of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Nursing Homes
• CMS Announces New Targeted Plan for Health Care Facility Inspections in Light of COVID-19

Long Term Care Facilities

• Separate Units to Prevent and Contain Transmission of COVID-19
• 3/27 Technical Bulletin #4 – Supplemental Guidance to Employers
• 3/25 Technical Bulletin #3 – Information for Health Care Providers
• 1/31 Infection Prevention and Control
• CDC Strategies to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 in Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCF)
  • Consideraciones al Prepararse para el COVID-19 en Instalaciones de Vivienda Asistida
• CDC Interim Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Patients with Confirmed Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) or Persons under Investigation for COVID-19 in Health Care Settings
• CMS Guidance for Infection Control and Prevention of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Nursing Homes

Hospice Agencies

• CMS Guidance for Infection Control and Prevention Concerning Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) by Hospice Agencies

Medical Laboratories

• 6/26 Effective Immediately – Require Immediate Reporting of COVID-19 Test Results to the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health
• 4/20 Updated Testing Criteria for COVID-19
• 3/27 Nevada State Board of Pharmacy Prescription Medications during COVID-19
• 3/27 Technical Bulletin #4 – Supplemental Guidance to Employers
• 3/20 Updated Interim Testing Criteria for COVID-19
• 3/5 Technical Bulletin #4 – Information for Health Care Providers, Medical Facilities, and Medical Laboratories
• CDC Information for Laboratories
• CDC FAQ About COVID-19 Testing at Laboratories
• CMS Guidance Regarding Relaxed Enforcement Discretion for CLIA Labs During COVID-19 Emergency
• Nevada State Board of Pharmacy COVID-19 Information
• FAQs on Diagnostic Testing for SARS-CoV-2