Providing COVID-Safe Care
Keeping Our Patients Safe
Keeping you safe when you are in our facility or other care locations is our highest priority. Our team is taking extraordinary measures to provide COVID-safe care for the protection of our patients, our caregivers and the community.
What is COVID-safe care?
Numerous precautions are in place to ensure you can safely receive the medical services you need.
- Entry points are limited so we can screen everyone who comes into the facility.
- Everyone who enters Grandview Endoscopy Center is screened for symptoms before being allowed to entry.
- Visitor restrictions/waiting room closure helps reduce the number of people in our facility to enable social distancing and to keep our patients even safer.
- Facemasks or cloth face coverings are mandatory at our facility– patients and employees – and our caregivers must wear a facemask or cloth face covering at all times in our facility. We ask you please arrive to the facility wearing your facemask or cloth face covering.
- Our normal deep cleaning processes are already intense and designed to protect people in our facility, but we have enhanced all cleaning protocols with extra measures and increased frequency, including disinfection of frequently touched surfaces and all patient care areas.
- Furniture in waiting areas has been rearranged to ensure appropriate social distancing.
- Non COVID-19 care zones have been established where patients are screened. Those who screen negative for COVID-19 will be able to proceed with their scheduled procedure.
- No endoscopic procedure(s) will be performed on a patient who is considered medium or high risk for COVID-19. Those patients include: Patients who currently have or suspected to have COVID-19; Patients exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19 (fever, sore throat, loss of taste/smell, cough, muscle aches/spasms); or patients who have recently been in close contact (14 days prior to the scheduled procedure) with friends and family members diagnosed with COVID-19.
Protect Yourself And Others From COVID-19
The best way to protect yourself and others from COVID-19 is to limit close proximity to other people and to follow infection prevention recommendations.
- Put distance of at least six feet between yourself and other people.
- Frequently wash your hands for at least 20 seconds with soap and warm water or use hand sanitizer containing 60% or more alcohol.
- Avoid touching your face, especially your eyes, nose and mouth.
- Wear a facemask to cover your nose and mouth when you are in public places where you may come into contact with other people.
- Cover your cough or sneeze with a bent elbow or tissue and immediately dispose of the tissue.
- Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces.
- Stay home when you are sick, except to get medical care.
If You Get Sick
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises: mildly ill patients should be encouraged to stay home and contact their healthcare provider by phone for guidance.
Patients who have severe symptoms, such as trouble breathing, persistent pain or pressure in the chest, new confusion or inability to arouse, bluish lips or face should seek emergency care immediately.
Older patients and individuals who have underlying medical conditions or are immunocompromised should contact their physician early in the course of even mild illness.
More Information
Facts about coronavirus (COVID-19), how you can protect yourself, what to do if you are sick and more is at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):
Prevention facts - https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/prevention-treatment.html
What to do if you are sick - https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/steps-when-sick.html
Overview - https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/index.html