Health Alert: Coronavirus Information

ATTENTION PATIENTS AND VISITORS

Please read through the Covid screening questions below prior to your appointment.

Please call (203) 830-4700 to notify our office prior to your appointment if you answer yes to any of the following:

1. In the past 7 days have you:
     En los últimos 7 días:

• Had a fever over 100.5 degrees F?
         ¿Tenía fiebre de más de 100.5 grados F?
• Developed a new cough?
         ¿Desarrolló una nueva tos?
• Had loss of sense of smell/taste?
        ¿Pérdida del sentido del olfato / gusto?
• New onset of shortness of breath?
         ¿Nueva aparición de dificultad para respirar?
• Prolonged or unusual headache?
         ¿Dolor de cabeza prolongado o inusual?

2. Have you been diagnosed with COVID in the past 10 days or are awaiting a COVID test result?
     ¿Le han diagnosticado COVID en los últimos 10 días o está esperando el resultado de la prueba de COVID?

Please promptly notify our office prior to your appointment if you’ve answered yes to any of the statements above or if you’ve traveled internationally for more than 24 hours within the last 10 days.

Safety Precautions for Patients and Staff

At Advanced Specialty Care we have both been monitoring recommendations and proactively implementing protective measures for our patients and our staff. Below is an outline of measures we have deployed for your safety:

1. Masks / face coverings are required to be worn at all times by patients, visitors and staff. Face masks with an external valve are not permitted unless they are covered with a second non-valved face covering or mask.
2. On arrival all patients and related visitors are screened for symptoms and contacts. Those who do not meet criteria will be triaged by our nursing staff.
3. All visitors over the age of 2 who pass criteria are required to wear a mask upon entry to our office.
4. Universal precautions are firmly mandated in our office so all clinical staff and physicians when in the exam room with a patient will be wearing masks and have cleaned their hands prior to encountering the patients.
5. All exam rooms are cleaned thoroughly between patient visits with appropriate disinfectants as well as all the hard surfaces in our waiting room regularly.
6. All equipment used in patient care is carefully discarded or properly sterilized between uses.
7. Any employees who show any signs of respiratory illness and/or fever have been sent home with their return predicated on negative Coronavirus 19 testing confirmed.
8. We are deploying ‘social distancing’ in the office wherever we can for our staff and our patients.
9. We are refraining from shaking hands in order to prevent the spread of germs.

We continue to do all that we can to care for our patients and, perhaps more importantly, do our part in serving the needs of our local healthcare community. Anything we can do to relieve some of the burden on primary care offices as well as the hospital and emergency room helps everyone.

We appreciate your cooperation.