The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Oklahoma
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Okla. Const. art. VI, sec. 2; Second Amended EO 2020-13
- Issued
- 2020-04-16 Apr. 16, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-04-24 (Tier 2), 2020-05-01 (Tier 1) (read as 2020-04-24)
- End
- Superseded by Amended Executive Memorandum 2020-02 (Apr. 20, 2020)
- In force
- Apr. 24, 2020 (no end date recorded; counted as in force for 120 days)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care orders
- Addressees
- hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, hospital outpatient departments
- Functions reached
- SX surgery scheduling by acuity tier
- OC outpatient departments and ASCs
- SC PPE conservation
- Collection
- Oklahoma OK
Operative words
On April 16th, I issued the Second Amended Executive Order 2020-13 allowing elective surgeries to be reinstated on April 24, 2020. It is important to establish priorities for types of procedures to limit the spread of COVID-19 and make sure that limited personal protective equipment (PPE) is only consumed for the procedures that have higher impacts on morbidity and mortality. Therefore, while the following guidance is subject to individual institutions' availability of personal protective equipment, it shall be utilized when elective surgeries are performed: Elective Surgery Acuity Scale (ESAS)... Tier 2a/2b Allowable April 24... Tier 1a/1b Allowable May 1... require a COVID-19 test as a portion of the pre-operation process.
Enforcement
'shall be utilized'; conditions on the reinstatement of elective surgery
Notes
Low-acuity outpatient surgery (carpal tunnel, prosthesis, EGD, colonoscopy) not allowable until May 1 (Apr. 30 under the Amended memorandum).
Retrieval noteSOS document 1932; OCR.