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Executive Directive No. 20-013 (Revised)

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)

Judith M. Persichilli, Commissioner of Health · New Jersey (Sector regulator)

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Jurisdiction
New Jersey
Level
Sector regulator
Authority
N.J.S.A. 26:13-12; N.J.S.A. 26:2H-12.87; EO 103
Issued
2020-05-20 May 20, 2020
Effective
2020-05-20 (revised; original May 12, 2020) (read as 2020-05-20)
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) (read as 2021-09-30)
In force
May 20, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Health care ordersWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolation
Addressees
  • long-term care facilities, assisted living residences, comprehensive personal care homes, residential health care facilities, dementia care homes
Functions reached
  • IC staff and resident testing
  • HR staffing (exclusion of positive staff)
  • RS cohorting
  • CB counterparties (staffing agencies, hospice, therapy vendors entering facilities)
Collection
New Jersey NJ

Operative words

Recitals: facilities "must 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"; the Commissioner "is empowered, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 26:13-12, to take all reasonable and necessary measures to prevent the transmission of infectious disease". (Operative testing paragraphs are in the exhibit; ED 20-026 restates them: "All facilities must test residents and staff as follows".)

Enforcement

Licensure; N.J.S.A. 26:13-12

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.

Retrieval note

Read from nj.gov/health (recitals and header; operative paragraphs in the exhibit).

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