{"id":"NJ-066","kind":"order","level":"sector-regulator","jurisdiction":"New Jersey","state":"NJ","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Judith M. Persichilli, Commissioner of Health","authority":"N.J.S.A. 26:13-12; N.J.S.A. 26:2H-12.87; EO 103","instrument":"Executive Directive No. 20-013 (Revised)","title":"COVID-19 testing at licensed long-term care facilities, assisted living residences, comprehensive personal care homes, residential health care facilities and dementia care homes (baseline and periodic testing of residents and staff)","dateIssued":"2020-05-20","effective":"2020-05-20 (revised; original May 12, 2020)","end":"Testing requirements carried into ED 20-026 (Aug. 20, 2020) and continued to January 11, 2022 (P.L. 2021, c. 103, sec. 3(a); EO 252 para. 5)","startDate":"2020-05-20","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["HC","EMP","QUAR"],"addressees":["long-term care facilities, assisted living residences, comprehensive personal care homes, residential health care facilities, dementia care homes"],"clause":"Recitals: facilities \u0022must have outbreak response plans customized to the facility... addressing isolation and cohorting of infected and at-risk individuals; notification policies; policies to require ill staff to not present at the facility for work duties\u0022; the Commissioner \u0022is empowered, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 26:13-12, to take all reasonable and necessary measures to prevent the transmission of infectious disease\u0022. (Operative testing paragraphs are in the exhibit; ED 20-026 restates them: \u0022All facilities must test residents and staff as follows\u0022.)","enforcement":"Licensure; N.J.S.A. 26:13-12","functions":["IC staff and resident testing","HR staffing (exclusion of positive staff)","RS cohorting","CB counterparties (staffing agencies, hospice, therapy vendors entering facilities)"],"notes":"Senior living: mandatory baseline and repeat testing of every worker entering the facility from May 2020, carried through Q3 2021 by ED 20-026 and c. 103.","sourceUrl":"https://www.nj.gov/health/legal/covid19/05-20-2020_ExecutiveDirectiveNo20-013_LTC_planCOVID19testing_revised.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":138737,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"NJ","url":"/library/NJ-066","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/NJ-066","citation":"Judith M. Persichilli, Commissioner of Health, Executive Directive No. 20-013 (Revised) (May 20, 2020) (Ex. NJ-066)","stateName":"New Jersey","related":["NJ-067","NJ-068","NJ-069","NJ-071","NJ-070","NJ-084","NJ-085","NJ-064","NJ-073","NJ-083"]}