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Ex. NE-022 Order Confirmed from a secondary source

Directed Health Measure Orders of Nov. 13, 2020 (e.g., 2020-DCHD-014)

Directed Health Measures effective Nov. 16, 2020 (elective surgery pause)

Nebraska DHHS, Chief Medical Officer · Nebraska (all districts) (State)

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Jurisdiction
Nebraska (all districts) · Nebraska
Level
State
Authority
Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 71-502 and 81-601; 173 Neb. Admin. Code ch. 6
Issued
2020-11-13 Nov. 13, 2020
Effective
2020-11-16
End
2020-12-11 (yellow phase from Dec. 12, 2020 allowed inpatient elective surgeries with a 10 percent reserve) (read as 2020-12-11)
In force
Nov. 16, 2020 to Dec. 11, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q4
Limitation types
Capacity limitGathering capFace-covering requirementHealth care ordersQuarantine and isolation
Addressees
  • acute care, critical access and children's hospitals
  • all addressees of NE-021
Functions reached
  • SX elective inpatient surgery
  • IP inpatient capacity
  • OC
  • CB patients
Collection
Nebraska NE

Operative words

Temporarily halts elective surgeries that can wait 4+ weeks without substantially changing patient outcome [Husch Blackwell summary of the Nov. 16 DHM]; DHHS Dec. 2, 2020: 'Many elective surgeries requiring an inpatient hospital stay are restricted'; DHHS measure table (NE-023): orange 'All Inpatient Class D & E Surgeries Postponed'; red 'All Inpatient Class C, D & E Surgeries Postponed'

Enforcement

DHHS formula

Notes

Announced Nov. 13-16, 2020 with the five-phase color framework; the State was in the orange phase from Nov. 14 through Dec. 11, 2020

Retrieval note

Confirmed by the Husch Blackwell tracker (NE-097), the DHHS Weekly Update of Dec. 2, 2020 (NE-090) and the DHHS measure table (NE-023); the Douglas County copy failed to download from the Wayback Machine in this session (queued for retry).

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