Healthcare Providers & Laboratories

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

CDC’s Project Firstline 

• ★ Register to Become a COVID-19 Pandemic Vaccinating Provider ★
  
• Vaccine Program Provider Agreement FAQs (10/30)
• Vaccine Storage and Handling Guidance
• Reporting COVID-19 Vaccine Administration data to TennIIS
• Provider Resources for COVID-19 Vaccine Conversations with Patients
• Mass Vaccination Clinics: Challenges and Best Practices
• CDC COVID-19 Vaccine Training Module for Providers
• CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Program Provider Agreement (10/30)

For more information about becoming a COVID-19 vaccine provider, email VPDIP.pandemic@tn.gov

COVID-19 Vaccine Administration Resources

• CDC Guidance: Vaccination of Health Care Workers and Long Term Care Facility Residents

COVID-19 Vaccination Record Cards

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• English/Arabic
• English/Somali
• English/Sorani (Kurdish)
• English/French
• English/Chinese

COVID-19 Emotional Support

• COVID-19 Emotional Support Line for Healthcare Workers

If you are a Tennessee health care provider or first responder and want to talk to someone about feelings of stress, anxiety, sadness or depression related to your work, the COVID-19 Emotional Support Line is staffed by specially-trained volunteers who can help. Please call 888-MHART-TN (888-642-7886). Learn more here.

• Critical Worker Post-Testing Guidance (5/4)
• Guidance for Healthcare Workers Diagnosed with COVID Illness (12/9)
• CDC Guidance
  • Guidance for Healthcare Workers Returning to Work after COVID Illness
  • Frontline Staff Toolkit for Outpatient Hemodialysis Facilities

Clinical Information

• Monoclonal Antibody Administration Locations: Location Availability (Last updated 1/22/21)
• CDC: Clinical information about this disease
• Triage and Assessment Guidance (9/21)
• 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

• Long-Term Care Facility Visitation Guidance (9/17)
  
• Activities & Dining (9/17)
• Prevention, Monitoring, and Management for Long-Term Care Facilities (8/28)
  
• Guidance to Request to PPE (6/11)
• Weekly Staff Testing - Nursing Homes (6/23)
• Weekly Staff Testing - Assisted Living Facilities and Residential Home for the Aged (6/23)
• TDH: Facilities and Health Professionals
  
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • Long-Term Care Facility Weekly Testing FAQs (8/20)
    
  • 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
• Several memos, regulations, and press releases have been publicized over the past several months regarding COVID-19 laboratory result reporting to Federal, state, and local officials; including the most recent Interim Final Rule with a Comment Period (CMS-3401-IFC) from August 25, 2020.  This memo is intended to summarize the Tennessee Department of Health’s current understanding of the implications of these new policies on facilities providing clinical care or laboratory testing in Tennessee.
  • TDH's response to Federal COVID reporting rules
  • FAQs regarding Federal COVID reporting rules

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 (11/30)
  
• Several memos, regulations, and press releases have been publicized over the past several months regarding COVID-19 laboratory result reporting to Federal, state, and local officials; including the most recent Interim Final Rule with a Comment Period (CMS-3401-IFC) from August 25, 2020.  This memo is intended to summarize the Tennessee Department of Health’s current understanding of the implications of these new policies on facilities providing clinical care or laboratory testing in Tennessee.
  • TDH's response to Federal COVID reporting rules
  • FAQs regarding Federal COVID reporting rules
    

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)
• DOT: Safety Advisory for the Transportation of COVID-19 Diagnostic Samples
• Point of Care test reporting guidance (11/30)
  
• Several memos, regulations, and press releases have been publicized over the past several months regarding COVID-19 laboratory result reporting to Federal, state, and local officials; including the most recent Interim Final Rule with a Comment Period (CMS-3401-IFC) from August 25, 2020.  This memo is intended to summarize the Tennessee Department of Health’s current understanding of the implications of these new policies on facilities providing clinical care or laboratory testing in Tennessee.
  • TDH's response to Federal COVID reporting rules
  • FAQs regarding Federal COVID reporting rules
    
• Information on Cycle threshold (Ct) values for SARS-CoV-2

Death Certification/Decedent Guidance

• Death Certification (5/5)
• Decedent Guidance (9/3)

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
  

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• TDH Health Alert - 05-08-20
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  • Clarification to TDH Health Alert - 04-15-20
    
• TDH Health Alert - 03-25-20
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