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EXTENSIVE COVID-19 TESTING OF STAFF AND PATIENTS, EXTREME CLEANING AND MANY OTHER MEASURES MAKE OUR FACILITIES SAFE FOR CARE.
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he safety and health of our patients and team members have always been top priorities at RWJBarnabas Health (RWJBH). Now we’ve taken everything the medical profession has learned about COVID-19 and implemented best practices at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset and all of our facilities.
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“At RWJBarnabas Health, we’ve been on a safety journey to becoming a High Reliability Organization for three years,” says John Bonamo, MD, Executive Vice President, Chief Quality Officer and Chief Medical Officer for RWJBH. “The high safety standards we had before the pandemic are making it possible for us to come back confident.” Safety is an all-encompassing effort. “Every little thing we do is a building block aimed at making our facilities COVID-free,” says JOHN BONAMO, MD Dr. Bonamo.
WHAT WE’RE DOING Testing is a major way RWJBH hospitals are keeping COVID-19 from spreading. Every admitted patient, every surgical patient and every Emergency Department patient with flu-like symptoms is tested. In addition, team members—whether they work directly with patients or not— are tested, many of them multiple times. Hospital administrators and staff also have taken a hard look at all relevant processes, including how rooms are cleaned, how personal protective equipment (PPE) is used—even how air in the hospitals is circulated. “As we discharge COVID-19 patients, the rooms in which they were cared for get a special deep cleaning,” Dr. Bonamo says. “We clean everything in the room
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