Guidance for Mental Health facilities

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Vaccination Requirements for Healthcare Providers and Healthcare Staff in Healthcare Settings

The Oregon Health Authority requires that healthcare providers and healthcare staff provide proof of vaccination. Health care providers and healthcare staff may not work, learn, study, assist, observe, or volunteer in a healthcare setting unless they are fully vaccinated or have provided documentation of a medical or religious exception. 

This new requirement went into effect Sept 30, 2021 for health care personnel. 

Read more about this new guidance here: https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/viewSingleRule.action?ruleVrsnRsn=289353

Masking Requirements for Healthcare Providers and Healthcare Staff in Healthcare Settings

Masks are required in all healthcare settings. "Health care setting" means any place where health care, including physical, dental, or behavioral health care is delivered and includes, but is not limited to any health care facility or agency licensed under ORS chapter 441 or 443, such as hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, birthing centers, special inpatient care facilities, long-term acute care facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, inpatient hospice facilities, nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, and residential facilities, behavioral health residential facilities, home health care, hospice, pharmacies, in-home care, vehicles or temporary sites where health care is delivered or is related to the provision of health care (for example, mobile clinics, ambulances, non-emergency medical transport vehicles (NEMT), secure transportation, and street based medicine),outpatient facilities, such as dialysis centers, health care provider offices, dental offices, behavioral health care offices, urgent care centers, counseling offices, school-based health centers, offices that provide complementary and alternative medicine such as acupuncture, homeopathy, naturopathy, chiropractic and osteopathic medicine, and other specialty centers.

Read more about the guideline here: https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/viewSingleRule.action?ruleVrsnRsn=286317

OSHA'S Requirements for Healthcare Providers and Healthcare Staff in Healthcare Settings

You can read about OSHA (Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Administration's guidelines for medical settings here: https://osha.oregon.gov/OSHARules/div1/437-001-0744.pdf