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New York City: ADVANCE WARNING SYSTEM (AWS)
CORONAVIRUS INFORMATION, TIPS, AND RESOURCES

As you are aware, the City is currently responding to COVID-19, also known as coronavirus. We want to make sure that our partners, and the New Yorkers that your organization interacts with, are provided with the most up-to-date information.
With that in mind, please see these resources:

  1. A two-page fact sheet from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, provided here
  2. A short flyer
  3. Guidance from the CDC

Please feel free to distribute these documents via the various outreach methods that your organization employs (i.e. post at entrances to all agency buildings, hand out at public events, etc.).

It is very important that this information is made widely and quickly available to the New Yorkers that your organization interacts with. Please prioritize this outreach. We will be providing translations of these documents in the near future.

In addition, CDC has created several new landing pages for specific response groups on the CDC COVID-19 website. Please find the link to preventing the spread in communities  here .

You can also visit  NYC.gov/coronavirus  for additional information from the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Thank you,

NYC Emergency Management


About NYC AWS:
New York City ADVANCE WARNING SYSTEM
Emergency Alerts for Organizations that Serve People with Disabilities and Others with Access and Functional Needs

Sign up for alerts here:


Weekly Joint DOH/DOHMH
COVID-19 Healthcare Provider Call

New York State Department of Health and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for a Healthcare Provider COVID-19 Weekly Call on:

Thursday, March 5, 2020, from 1PM - 2PM. 
 
For audio, please call 844-512-2950. 


Additional Resources:

New York State
Health Commerce System
(NYSHCS)
New York State dialysis providers should be receiving updates from the DOH via the  Health Commerce System . If your facility does not already have an active HC account (for NYPORTS) please see this website for instructions on creating an account: https://www.health.ny.gov/prevention/immunization/information_system/providers/hpn_account_instructions.htm
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IPRO End-Stage Renal Disease Network of New York, the ESRD Organization for New York, prepared this material under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contents presented do not necessarily reflect CMS policy. CMS Contract Number: HHSM-500-2016-00020C.