Sent to all dialysis facility leadership and disaster contacts in NY State with valid email addresses in CROWNWeb, and all Emergency partners and stakeholders in the Network Service Area.
PATIENT TRANSPORTATION USE
Network staff are working with Federal, State and local agencies to try and support transportation during this crisis. Please fill out this very brief report on your current in center patient census and how your patients usually are transported to their dialysis treatments.
Link to BRIEF feedback form:


We are working to solve transportation issues as they arise.
New York State Department of Health
COVID-19 Update


  • 4/2 Options When PPE in Short Supply Link
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
COVID-19 Updates

  • 4/1 Healthcare Infection Prevention and Control FAQs for COVID-19 link
  • 4/1 Stress and Coping link
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
COVID-19 Update

  • 4/1/2020 HAN #9 Conserve all Personal Protective Equipment NOW Link
MANDATORY NETWORK REPORTING

It is very important that your facility report any COVID-19 Impact on your facility (Including staff shortages, need to alter treatments, any Persons Under Investigation (PUI) or Confirmed COVID-19 Positive, as we report to CMS daily.

If you have any patients or staff that are being tested (PUI) or that are unable to access the dialysis facility due to voluntary 14-day isolation, or confirmed COVID-19. Please submit this brief online Network reporting form.

https://redcap.ipro.org/surveys/?s=XAJLFDJPT8
American Society of Nephrology (ASN)
COVID-19 W ebinar Recordings

April 2: HOSPITAL CARE AND TREATMENT OPTIONS FOR COVID-19 POSITIVE PATIENTS WITH ESKD AND AKI


Ma rch 11: COVID-19 Information for Providers of Dialysis Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Guidance and Advisories

  • CDC Checklist: COVID-19 Outpatient Dialysis Facility Preparedness Assessment Tool link
  • Disposition of Non-Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 link
  • Discontinuation of Transmission-Based Precautions and Disposition of Patients with COVID-19 in Healthcare Settings (Interim Guidance)
  • How is our dialysis facility keeping patients safe from COVID-19 Printable Fact Sheet
  • HAN: Severe Illness Associated with Using Non-Pharmaceutical Chloroquine Phosphate to Prevent and Treat COVID-19. Link
  • Return to Work Criteria for Health Care Personnel with Confirmed or Suspected COVID-19 link
  • Screening and Triage at Intake Screening Dialysis Patients for COVID-19 link
PPE Conservation Guidance

  • CDC: Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of PPE including sections on eye protection, isolation gowns, facemasks, and N95 respirators link
  • NYC DOHMH: Strategies for the Conservation of Respiratory PPE link
  • FDA : Surgical Mask and Gown Conservation Strategies - Letter to Healthcare Providers link
COVID-19 Community Resources:


Patient Resources: