SF MANDATORY ESSENTIAL BUSINESS & SOCIAL DISTANCING PROTOCOLS
San Francisco issued new protocols for all essential businesses effective April 2, 2020. For those dentists taking dental emergencies with select team members in the office, you will need to:
- Complete the Essential Business-Social Distancing Protocol Form
- Provide the completed form to employees & post near the entrance to your facilities
- Post a notice on social distancing at entrances to your facilities: NOTICE: To Employees and Patients
- Be able to provide the completed Protocol to any enforcing authority
- For more information, forms and directives, visit SF.GOV
HOW TO PROPERLY PUT ON AND TAKE OFF A DISPOSABLE RESPIRATOR
SBA LENDER LOCATOR TOOL
Trying to find a lender for SBA loans/PPP loan?
This tool
helps members find a lender closest to them.
RESOURCE CHECKLIST FOR PPP LOANS
As the COVID-19 situation continues to develop, relief efforts such as
the SBA loan program
are becoming available. Eide Bailly has developed a Small Business Administration Loan Application Document Checklist to assist dentists with gathering the necessary filing documentation.
Click here to download the checklist.
NEW - CHECKLIST FOR CLOSING YOUR OFFICE DURING SIP
Since your offices should be closed, with the exception of seeing emergency patients, here is a handy
office closure checklist
of things you should be doing before leaving the office - to make sure it is appropriately cleaned, sterilized and to safeguard your equipment during the Shelter in Place. Thanks to our friends at Henry Schein.
ADA IN THE NEWS
Teledentistry Allows Some Dental Care Services To Continue Amid COVID-19 Crisis
Writing in the
New Dentist Now
(4/6) blog, Dr. Amir Kazim, a member of the ADA, the California Dental Association, and the Harbor Dental Society, states that during the COVID-19 crisis, dentists can leverage teledentistry technology to offer a preliminary diagnosis to patients. Dr. Kazim states that by offering teledentistry, he is “still actively assessing needs of existing patients as well as offering basic diagnoses to help allay oral health concerns.” Pointing to the ADA’s
guide
on coding and billing for virtual check-ins, Dr. Kazim offers several suggestions to help dentists when submitting teledentistry codes to dental insurance companies.
UPCOMING ADA WEBINARS:
SFDS’ VIVA ONLINE
VIVA Online now offering SFDS members the California Infection Control Course and California Dental Practice Act. Remember, this is free for SFDS active members. Check them out. Have dental team members that need the courses? For $25 per team member (a $50 discount off the $75 a year subscription), your team members can complete their license renewals obligations, too. Contact Rachel at
membership@sfds.org
for more information.
CDA COVID-19 WEBINAR SERIES
CDA is offering a series of webinars to provide members with information to navigate this time of uncertainty. Over the next couple of weeks, CDA will offer information and resources twice a week, typically
Tuesday and Friday mornings at 10 am
, depending on speaker availability. Registration is limited to the first 3,000 people. A recording will be available for later viewing.
Register here
CDA EIDL & PPP LOAN CLARIFICATIONS
CDA NOTICE ON DELTA DENTAL FEE REDUCTIONS
With our warmest regards and hope for better days...
