Healthcare Providers & Laboratories

• TDH COVID-19 Webinars for Health Care Providers (held every other Friday at noon!)

Healthcare Worker Guidance

• Critical Worker Post-Testing Guidance (5/4)
• Guidance for Healthcare Workers Diagnosed with COVID Illness (7/22)
• CDC Guidance
  • Guidance for Healthcare Workers Returning to Work after COVID Illness
  • Frontline Staff Toolkit for Outpatient Hemodialysis Facilities

Clinical Information

• CDC: Clinical information about this disease
• Triage and Assessment Guidance (7/22)
• CDC: COVID-19 ICD-10 Codes
• Providing Routine Immunizations (4/23)
  
• Guidance for Provision of Curbside Immunization Services (4/25)
  
• Management of Neonates and Pregnant Women
  • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: Practice Advisory
    
  • American Academy of Pediatrics: COVID-19 Clinical Guidance
  • CDC: Evaluation and Management Considerations for Neonates at Risk for COVID-19

Long-Term Care Facility Guidance

• Prevention, Monitoring, and Management for Long-Term Care Facilities (7/17)
  
• Guidance to Request to PPE (6/11)
• Laboratory Testing Options (7/14)
• Weekly Staff Testing - Nursing Homes (6/23)
• Weekly Staff Testing - Assisted Living Facilities and Residential Home for the Aged (6/23)
• Long-Term Care Facility Visitation Guidance (6/15)
• TDH: Facilities and Health Professionals
  
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • Long-Term Care Facility Weekly Testing FAQs (7/22)
    
  • National Health Safety Network (TN Department of Health partnership with QSource):  Frequently Asked Questions
• Webinars
  • COVID-19 Long-term Care Facility Webinar 7-8-20
    
  • COVID-19 Long-term Care Facility Webinar 7-1-20
• CDC Resources
  • CDC: Responding to COVID-19 in Nursing Homes
  • CDC: Infection Prevention and Control Assessment Tool for Nursing Homes Preparing for COVID-19
  • CDC: Considerations for Memory Care Units in Long-term Care Facilities

Reporting/Specimen Submission/Testing

• Report a case of this disease (8/3)
• Submit a specimen for laboratory testing (7/30)
• Antibody Testing Guidance (4/30)
• CDC: Overview of Testing for SARS-CoV-2
• PH-1600
• Point of Care test reporting guidance
  

Personal Protective Equipment

• CDC: Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of N95 Respirators
• PPE Conservation Guidance (5/17)
• Extended Use and Re-Use of N95s (3/24)
• Extended Use and Re-Use of Facemasks (3/24)
• Extended Use and Re-Use of Eye Protection (3/25)

Licensure and Executive Orders

• Important Health Licensing Information Regarding COVID-19
• Application for Executive Order

Laboratory Guidance

• CDC: Information for Laboratories about Coronavirus (COVID-19)
• Report a case of this disease (8/3)
• TN Specimen Submission Guide (Form 1/3) (7/30)
  • TN PH 4360 Laboratory Submission Form (Form 2/3) (7/30)
  • CDC PUI Form (Form 3/3)
• Laboratory Specimen Supplies Guidance (3/23)
• Report a COVID-19 laboratory result (8/3)
• How to Become a TN Lab Vendor (7/29)
• DOT: Safety Advisory for the Transportation of COVID-19 Diagnostic Samples
• Point of Care test reporting guidance
  

Death Certification/Decedent Guidance

• Death Certification (5/5)
• Decedent Guidance (4/12)

Tabletop Exercise Resources

• COVID19 Healthcare Tabletop Exercise Facilitator Manual
• COVID19 Healthcare Tabletop Facilitator PPT
• COVID19 Healthcare Tabletop Exercise for Participants

Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)

• TN Call for Cases/Case Definition
• CDC: MIS-C for Healthcare Providers
  

• TDH Health Alert - 08-03-20
• TDH Health Alert - 07-21-20
• TDH Health Alert - 07-10-20
• TDH Health Alert - 06-23-20
• TDH Health Alert - 05-08-20
• TDH Health Alert - 04-29-20
• TDH Health Alert - 04-15-20
  • Clarification to TDH Health Alert - 04-15-20
    
• TDH Health Alert - 03-25-20
• TDH Health Alert - 03-11-20
• TDH Health Alert - 03-06-20
• TDH Health Alert - 02-28-20
• TDH Health Alert - 01-29-20
• TDH Health Alert - 01-23-20