{"id":"AR-044","kind":"order","level":"sector-regulator","jurisdiction":"Arkansas","state":"AR","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Secretary of Health, Arkansas Department of Health","authority":"Ark. Code Ann. 20-7-109 to -110","instrument":"ADH Guidance for Limiting the Transmission of COVID-19 for Hospitals (March 11, 2020)","title":"Voluntary, suggested screening criteria for hospital employees and visitors; review of visitation criteria","dateIssued":"2020-03-11","effective":"2020-03-11","end":"Superseded by the mandatory screening in the Mar. 19, 2020 directive (Ex. AR-035: \u0027all hospitals shall conduct mandatory temperature and COVID-19 symptom screening of staff and visitors\u0027)","startDate":"2020-03-11","endDate":"2020-03-19","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["HC"],"addressees":["hospitals"],"clause":"While the current status of the outbreak does not require hospitals to screen all visitors and employees as is the case in long-term care facilities, the Arkansas Department of Health recognizes that some hospitals may wish to implement similar safeguards... the following voluntary, suggested screening criteria can be adapted into hospital-level policy if desired.... Hospitals are encouraged to review their visitation criteria and to consider whether temporarily limiting the type or number of visitors is appropriate during this high-risk period.","enforcement":"None (guidance); mandatory screening followed on Mar. 19, 2020","functions":["VS visitation","IC screening","ED intake"],"notes":"Recorded as guidance in its own words; the ADH server filed it as \u0027ADH_Hospital_Directive\u0027. The mandatory hospital screening instrument is the Mar. 19, 2020 directive (Ex. AR-035).","sourceUrl":"https://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/images/uploads/pdf/ADH_Hospital_Directive.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200420000000/https://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/images/uploads/pdf/ADH_Hospital_Directive.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":179923,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AR","url":"/library/AR-044","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AR-044","citation":"Secretary of Health, Arkansas Department of Health, ADH Guidance for Limiting the Transmission of COVID-19 for Hospitals (March 11, 2020) (Mar. 11, 2020) (Ex. AR-044)","stateName":"Arkansas","related":["AR-035","AR-045","AR-042","AR-036","AR-037","AR-038","AR-043","AR-040","AR-041","AR-046","AR-054","AR-056"]}