The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Oregon
- Level
- State
- Authority
- ORS 433.441(3)(b), (d), (f); ORS 401.168(1); ORS 401.188(1)-(3)
- Issued
- 2020-03-19 Mar. 19, 2020
- Effective
- Procedures cancelled no later than 2020-03-23 (read as 2020-03-23)
- End
- Ninety days as written; rescinded as of May 1, 2020 by EO 20-22 (read as 2020-05-01)
- In force
- Mar. 23, 2020 to May 1, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Health care ordersSupply chain
- Addressees
- hospitals
- ambulatory surgery centers
- outpatient clinics including community health clinics and student health centers
- dental clinics
- veterinary clinics
- all industries using PPE
- Functions reached
- SX surgery and elective procedures
- PR dental elective and aerosol procedures
- CH chairside care
- OC outpatient diagnostics
- VS visitation (OHA screening guidance para. 4)
- SC PPE supply (construction, farming, manufacturing 'strongly encouraged' to cancel non-essential PPE use)
- Collection
- Oregon OR
Operative words
No later than March 23, 2020, all elective and non-urgent procedures across all care settings that utilize PPE, including but not limited to, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, outpatient clinics (including community health clinics and student health centers), dental clinics, and veterinary clinics, shall be cancelled, or rescheduled no earlier than June 15, 2020, for the purpose of conserving and redirecting PPE for the state's COVID-19 emergency response.... A procedure or surgery is exempt... if a three-month delay in the procedure or surgery would put the patient at risk of irreversible harm.
Enforcement
Para. 5: public health law (ORS 431A.005,.010); ORS 401.990 penalties; para. 3: surplus PPE to be surrendered to the State PPE Coordinator by Mar. 27, 2020
Notes
The single most consequential Oregon health-care order: it emptied surgical and dental schedules from Mar. 23 for what was written as a near three-month period.
Retrieval noteOCR of the official scan.