OHSU coronavirus (COVID-19) response | OHSU News

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As of Monday, Sept. 19, 2022

Sufferers hospitalized with COVID-19

• OHSU: 19
• Hillsboro Medical Heart: 2
• OHSU Hospital and OHSU Well being Hillsboro Medical Heart hospitalization particulars:
  • 10 Not Absolutely Vaccinated
  • 10 Absolutely Vaccinated
  • 1 Absolutely Vaccinated with Booster
    • 0 de-isolated
    • 21 infectious

• 8 Sufferers in ICU
  • 6 Not Absolutely Vaccinated
  • 1 Absolutely Vaccinated
  • 1 Absolutely Vaccinated with Booster

• 2 Sufferers on a Ventilator
  • 2 Not Absolutely Vaccinated
  • 0 Absolutely Vaccinated
  • 0 Absolutely Vaccinated with Booster

• Adventist Well being Portland: 1

OHSU-specific information

• Since Feb. 28, 2020, there have been 259,210 sufferers examined. Amongst these, a complete of 28,316 COVID-19 circumstances have been detected; 19 sufferers are at the moment in hospital; and 141 sufferers have exams pending. There have been 206 in-hospital deaths.
• There have been 6 new detected affected person circumstances since Sept. 18.
• Thus far, OHSU has accomplished 45,313 COVID-19 exams for 14,065 workers and college students. Of these, 4,582 exams for 3,766 workers and college students detected COVID-19; 40,288 exams for 12,532 people resulted in not detected; 305 exams are pending.

OHSU neighborhood vaccinations

• OHSU has administered 452,858 vaccine doses by means of its neighborhood vaccination websites, along with the 546,166 vaccine doses administered thus far by means of the Oregon Conference Heart vaccination website, which was collectively managed by OHSU, Legacy Well being, Kaiser Permanente and Windfall Well being & Providers. (For extra details about neighborhood places and who’s eligible, see “Neighborhood COVID-19 vaccination websites” under.)

Because the state’s educational well being middle, Oregon Well being & Science College stays engaged with state and native public well being authorities and well being methods throughout the metro space to coordinate a regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim is to include the unfold of the virus, together with by means of the usage of vaccines that first arrived at OHSU on Dec. 15, 2020.

Starting within the earliest days of the pandemic, OHSU activated an emergency operations middle that tailored response plans already in place from earlier pandemic influenza outbreaks, and this group continues to satisfy.

OHSU has ready to deal with a surge of sufferers with COVID-19 whereas working proactively to include the unfold of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and shield our workforce.

Neighborhood COVID-19 vaccination websites

COVID-19 testing

OHSU is dedicated to making sure all Oregonians have entry to COVID-19 testing and acceptable well being care, notably individuals of colour and different people from communities hardest hit by COVID-19. All through the pandemic, OHSU provided low-barrier drive-through testing that has tracked surges in case counts, at varied factors accommodating as many as 700 individuals a day by means of websites in Hillsboro, the Oregon Conference Heart and the Portland Expo Heart.

Beginning March 14, 2022, sufferers and neighborhood members can get free COVID-19 testing at OHSU fast care clinics on its South Waterfront Campus and in Beaverton. Testing will likely be indoor and by appointment from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday by means of Friday. Individuals could name OHSU’s Linked Care Heart at 833-647-8222 to schedule.

Learn more about other OHSU COVID-19 testing options and resources.

Affected person care

• OHSU is following the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention’s recommendations to permit vital perform well being care workers to return to work six days, relatively than 10 days, after a COVID-19 an infection underneath the next circumstances: Employees have had gentle to average sickness and usually are not immunocompromised; and their signs are enhancing and they’re in any other case feeling properly. This transformation allows OHSU to handle neighborhood well being care wants and staffing challenges associated to COVID-19. Employees on this place will likely be required to put on N-95 masks.
• On Feb. 1, 2022, OHSU opened a Centralized Transportation Heart. Employees is out there seven days every week to assist schedule transportation for sufferers transferring between buildings or discharging from the hospital and clinics. The middle permits OHSU to extra rapidly make house for brand new sufferers in the course of the present surge in circumstances pushed by the omicron variant.
• OHSU manages an unprecedented surge of critically ill patients from the delta variant starting in the summertime of 2021. Frontline well being care staff reiterate the significance of individuals getting vaccinated. “It is a preventable sickness,” says Erin Boni, R.N., B.S.N., “This does not need to occur to anybody anymore.”
• OHSU has established a Long COVID-19 Program to offer complete, coordinated look after individuals experiencing debilitating signs months after their an infection.
• OHSU has established a collection of steps to organize sufferers who’ve recovered from COVID-19 for elective surgery following their illness. It is believed to be the primary revealed protocol laying out a COVID-era path ahead in American drugs.
• OHSU has applied a “masks on” coverage for all sufferers, guests and workers contained in the hospital. All staff who work in affected person care areas obtain masks offered by OHSU. 
• OHSU’s analysis neighborhood got here collectively to launch an in-house COVID-19 testing lab on March 24, 2020. The lab is an instance of the various collaborations which were occurring at OHSU and within the well being care neighborhood. On this case, members of the analysis neighborhood rallied to help the scientific neighborhood and testing in a drive to fight COVID-19. The lab’s capability drastically expanded in October 2020.
• In June 2021, OHSU acquired federal and state funding to dramatically expand the state’s ability to track variants of concern throughout Oregon and Southwest Washington.
• OHSU’s Telemedicine Program affords a chance for sufferers to seek the advice of with licensed clinicians by means of a phone or video connection from their dwelling, limiting boundaries to well being care entry. The service has expanded exponentially in response to COVID-19.

Workforce administration

• OHSU has offered childcare accommodations, together with a $7.5 million hardship stipend, to assist maintain its workforce in the course of the pandemic.
• A training video OHSU developed to organize its college students and workers to present COVID-19 vaccines is now getting used to coach California paramedics and emergency medical technicians as that state ramps up its struggle towards the pandemic.
• OHSU has instituted a wellness program designed to help clinicians, staff and college students in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. One instance is a grant-funded program that paid native eating places to provide hot meals for high-impact frontline health care workers following the vacations.
• OHSU is selling bodily distancing inside the college, and consists of requiring non-critical perform staff to work remotely and minimizing the variety of individuals gathered for in-person conferences by means of video and teleconferencing options. 

Analysis and improvement

• OHSU information scientist Peter Graven, Ph.D., has offered weekly updates of projections for hospitalizations statewide, which will become biweekly as the wave of infections generated by the omicron variant recedes. Starting early within the pandemic, Graven modeled the projected unchecked unfold of the virus and started sharing these projections with state and native policymakers on the onset of the pandemic in Oregon in March of 2020. These projections helped inform Oregon’s “Keep Dwelling, Save Lives” efforts to scale back the unfold of the virus and guarantee it does not exceed the capability of well being methods to deal with a surge of sufferers who required hospitalization.
• A laboratory research revealed Dec. 16, 2021, means that breakthrough infections following vaccination generate “super immunity” to COVID-19. Follow-up research published on Jan. 25, 2022, reveals equally robust immunity from infection followed by vaccination. OHSU research published online on April 29, 2021, suggests that folks beforehand contaminated with the novel coronavirus stand to get a a lot better advantage of safety towards new variants in the event that they’re vaccinated. An earlier laboratory study highlighted the significance of stopping the unfold of virus variants by means of vaccination. And one other laboratory research exhibits telltale signals of immunity towards new variants within the blood of individuals 11 months after an infection. On July 21, 2021, OHSU scientists co-authored a research revealed within the Journal of the American Medical Affiliation linking age to immune response measured in blood serum.
• An OHSU study goals to higher perceive the immune system’s response to COVID-19 throughout and after being pregnant.
• OHSU scientists and physicians are engaged in a multipronged effort throughout the establishment to enhance scientific understanding of the novel coronavirus and convey the pandemic underneath management.
• In November 2020, OHSU introduced a partnership with the native nonprofit Self Enhancement Inc. on a pilot study that mixes wastewater monitoring with voluntary saliva-based testing of residents in 4 Portland neighborhoods. Preliminary outcomes are promising, and the venture has helped forge connections with historically underserved communities.
• An OHSU-led evidence review, revealed in June 2020, finds that facial coverings seem to lower the danger of spreading respiratory sicknesses in neighborhood settings.
• OHSU information scientists are main a nationwide collaboration of clinicians, informaticians and different biomedical researchers who goal to show information from a whole lot of 1000’s of medical information from coronavirus sufferers into efficient therapies and predictive analytical instruments that might assist reduce or finish the pandemic.
• OHSU has joined with different universities and educational medical facilities throughout the nation to ease licensing necessities to expedite promising new applied sciences to diagnose, deal with and stop COVID-19. 

Neighborhood measures

• OHSU offers free screening for COVID-19 among students in K-12 schools throughout three areas of the state, in a partnership with the Oregon Well being Authority and Oregon Division of Training.
• OHSU dramatically increased the region’s ability to track virus variants, by means of new investments by federal and state public well being authorities. The initiative harnesses the college’s scientific and analysis experience.
• Within the battle towards COVID-19, OHSU raced to vaccinate as many Oregonians as quickly as possible. Over time, the aim is to drive the virus into submission by reducing off its potential to unfold.
• On Dec. 3, 2020, Gov. Kate Brown appointed Louis Picker, M.D., as considered one of two Oregon scientists to independently evaluate the protection and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines that obtain emergency use authorization from the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration. On Dec. 11, 2020, Brown appointed OHSU Chief Administration Officer Connie Seeley as a particular advisor for vaccine implementation in Oregon.
• OHSU established a Linked Care Heart, obtainable by cellphone to individuals all through Oregon who search perception concerning the care of signs associated to COVID-19. The cellphone quantity is 833-647-8222.
• OHSU President Danny Jacobs, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, joined different nationwide well being care leaders in raising alarm about disparities in well being outcomes alongside racial and socioeconomic strains amongst these affected by COVID-19. OHSU researchers confirmed the disproportionate affect of the virus on Black and Hispanic populations with an evidence review published Dec. 1, 2020.

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