OHSU coronavirus (COVID-19) response | OHSU News

As of Thursday, June 30

 

Patients hospitalized with COVID-19

• OHSU: 24
• Hillsboro Medical Center: 10
• OHSU Hospital and OHSU Health Hillsboro Medical Center hospitalization particulars:

  • 12 Not Fully Vaccinated
  • 17 Fully Vaccinated
  • 5 Fully Vaccinated with Booster

    • 1 de-isolated
    • 33 infectious

• 8 Patients in ICU

  • 5 Not Fully Vaccinated
  • 1 Fully Vaccinated
  • 2 Fully Vaccinated with Booster

• 2 Patients on a Ventilator

  • 1 Not Fully Vaccinated
  • 0 Fully Vaccinated
  • 1 Fully Vaccinated with Booster

• Adventist Health Portland: 11 *as of 6/28/22

OHSU-specific knowledge

• Since Feb. 28, 2020, there have been 250,789 sufferers examined. Among these, a complete of 27,174 COVID-19 circumstances have been detected; 24 sufferers are at present in hospital; and 294 sufferers have assessments pending. There have been 189 in-hospital deaths.
• There have been 33 new detected affected person circumstances since June 29.
• To date, OHSU has accomplished 44,461 COVID-19 assessments for 13,909 workers and college students. Of these, 4,420 assessments for 3,620 workers and college students detected COVID-19; 39,628 assessments for 12,414 people resulted in not detected; 279 assessments are pending.

OHSU group vaccinations

• OHSU has administered 445,872 vaccine doses by its group vaccination websites, along with the 546,166 vaccine doses administered to this point by the Oregon Convention Center vaccination website, which was collectively managed by OHSU, Legacy Health, Kaiser Permanente and Providence Health & Services. (For extra details about group areas and who’s eligible, see “Community COVID-19 vaccination sites” beneath.)

As the state’s educational well being heart, Oregon Health & Science University stays engaged with state and native public well being authorities and well being techniques throughout the metro space to coordinate a regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective is to comprise the unfold of the virus, together with by using vaccines that first arrived at OHSU on Dec. 15, 2020.

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

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

Community COVID-19 vaccination websites

COVID-19 testing

OHSU is dedicated to making sure all Oregonians have entry to COVID-19 testing and applicable well being care, notably folks of shade and different people from communities hardest hit by COVID-19. Throughout the pandemic, OHSU provided low-barrier drive-through testing that has tracked surges in case counts, at numerous factors accommodating as many as 700 folks a day by websites in Hillsboro, the Oregon Convention Center and the Portland Expo Center.

Starting March 14, 2022, sufferers and group members can get free COVID-19 testing at OHSU rapid 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 Friday. People might name OHSU’s Connected Care Center at 833-647-8222 to schedule.

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

Patient care

• OHSU is following the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendations to permit important operate well being care workers to return to work six days, moderately than 10 days, after a COVID-19 an infection below the next situations: Staff have had gentle to reasonable sickness and should not immunocompromised; and their signs are enhancing and they’re in any other case feeling nicely. This change displays contingency capability staffing requirements in place to handle group well being care wants and staffing challenges associated to COVID-19. Staff on this place will likely be required to put on N-95 masks.
• On Feb. 1, 2022, OHSU opened a Centralized Transportation Center. Staff is obtainable seven days per week to assist schedule transportation for sufferers transferring between buildings or discharging from the hospital and clinics. The heart permits OHSU to extra rapidly make house for brand new sufferers throughout 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 employees reiterate the significance of individuals getting vaccinated. “This is a preventable sickness,” says Erin Boni, R.N., B.S.N., “This would not should occur to anybody anymore.”
• OHSU has established a Long COVID-19 Program to supply complete, coordinated take care of folks experiencing debilitating signs months after their an infection.
• OHSU has established a sequence of steps to arrange sufferers who’ve recovered from COVID-19 for elective surgery following their illness. It’s believed to be the primary revealed protocol laying out a COVID-era path ahead in American drugs.
• OHSU has applied a “mask 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 group got here collectively to launch an in-house COVID-19 testing lab on March 24, 2020. The lab is an instance of the numerous collaborations which were occurring at OHSU and within the well being care group. In this case, members of the analysis group rallied to help the medical group and testing in a drive to fight COVID-19. The lab’s capability drastically expanded in October 2020.
• In June 2021, OHSU obtained 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 presents a possibility for sufferers to seek the advice of with licensed clinicians by a phone or video connection from their house, limiting limitations 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 throughout the pandemic.
• A training video OHSU developed to arrange its college students and workers to provide COVID-19 vaccines is now getting used to coach California paramedics and emergency medical technicians as that state ramps up its struggle in opposition to the pandemic.
• OHSU has instituted a wellness program designed to help clinicians, staff and college students throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. One instance is a grant-funded program that paid native eating places to produce 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 operate staff to work remotely and minimizing the variety of folks gathered for in-person conferences by video and teleconferencing options. 

Research and growth

• OHSU knowledge 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. Beginning early within the pandemic, Graven modeled the projected unchecked unfold of the virus and commenced 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 “Stay Home, Save Lives” efforts to cut back the unfold of the virus and guarantee it would not exceed the capability of well being techniques 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 individuals beforehand contaminated with the novel coronavirus stand to get a significantly better advantage of safety in opposition to new variants in the event that they’re vaccinated. An earlier laboratory study highlighted the significance of stopping the unfold of virus variants by vaccination. And one other laboratory research reveals telltale signals of immunity in opposition to 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 Association linking age to immune response measured in blood serum.
• An OHSU study goals to raised 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 below 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 challenge 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 group settings.
• OHSU knowledge scientists are main a nationwide collaboration of clinicians, informaticians and different biomedical researchers who purpose to show knowledge from lots of of hundreds 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 forestall COVID-19. 

Community 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 Health Authority and Oregon Department of Education.
• OHSU dramatically increased the region’s ability to track virus variants, by new investments by federal and state public well being authorities. The initiative harnesses the college’s medical and analysis experience.
• In the battle in opposition to COVID-19, OHSU raced to vaccinate as many Oregonians as quickly as possible. Over time, the objective is to drive the virus into submission by slicing off its capability to unfold.
• On Dec. 3, 2020, Gov. Kate Brown appointed Louis Picker, M.D., as considered one of two Oregon scientists to independently assessment the security and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines that obtain emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food 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 Connected Care Center, accessible by cellphone to folks 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 traces amongst these affected by COVID-19. OHSU researchers confirmed the disproportionate influence of the virus on Black and Hispanic populations with an evidence review published Dec. 1, 2020.

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