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Sacred Heart receives national recognition for safety Your one-stop shop.
PeaceHealth
Sacred
Heart Medical Center at
RiverBend was awarded an
‘A’ in the spring 2020 Leap-
frog Hospital Safety Grade,
a national distinction
recognizing
RiverBend’s
achievements
providing
safer health care.
The Leapfrog Group is
an independent nation-
al watchdog organization
committed to health care
quality and safety.
The Safety Grade is a
letter grade assigned to all
general hospitals across the
country and updated every
six months, assessing how
well the hospital prevents
medical errors and other
harms to patients.
“I am incredibly proud
of the hard work, collabo-
ration and dedication that
our caregivers, providers
and leaders put forth every
day in support of Peace-
Health’s quality and safe-
ty,” said Mary Kingston,
PeaceHealth Oregon chief
executive. “The current
COVID-19 pandemic truly
put a spotlight on the im-
portance of this work as we
are driven by our commit-
ment to delivering compas-
sionate, high-quality care
for our patients, families
and communities.
“The ‘A’ rating is an
achievement that serves as
a grounding touchstone,
that we can and will con-
tinue to do more in trans-
forming the way we provide
care.”
“As the Nation copes with
a challenging pandemic,
our gratitude extends to
hospital leadership and
healthcare workers every-
where for their tremen-
dous dedication,” said Leah
Binder, president and CEO
of The Leapfrog Group.
“We hope this ‘A’ helps to
thank the people who work
and volunteer for Peace-
Health Sacred Heart Medi-
cal Center at RiverBend.
“They are role models
in putting patients first,
and their service has been
extraordinary in our coun-
try’s time of need.”
Developed under the
guidance of a national Ex-
pert Panel, the Leapfrog
Hospital Safety Grade uses
up to 28 measures of pub-
licly available hospital safe-
ty data to assign grades to
more than 2,600 U.S. acute-
care hospitals twice per
year.
The Hospital Safety
Grade’s methodology is
peer-reviewed and fully
transparent, and the results
are free to the public.
To see PeaceHealth Sa-
cred Heart Medical Center
at RiverBend’s full grade
details and access patient
tips for staying safe in the
hospital, visit hospitalsafe-
tygrade.org and follow The
Leapfrog Group on Twitter
and Facebook.
OHA reports no known transmission of virus through food, packaging
Given the recent plant
closures across the U.S.
and some in Oregon, the
Oregon Health Authori-
ty (OHA) and the Oregon
Department of Agriculture
(ODA) want to assure Ore-
gonians there is no evidence
that human or animal food
— or food packaging is as-
sociated with the transmis-
sion of COVID-19.
Food products do not
need to be withdrawn or
recalled from the market if
someone on the farm or in
the processing plant tests
positive.
“The virus is thought to
spread mainly from person
to person, such as between
people who are in close
contact with one anoth-
er, or through respiratory
droplets produced when an
infected person coughs or
sneezes,” said Paul Cieslak,
M.D., senior health adviser
for OHA’s COVID-19 re-
sponse. “A person can get
COVID-19 by touching
a surface that an infected
person has touched, which
is why it is so important to
get in the habit of washing
your hands often including
before and after preparing
meals, before eating and af-
ter you come home if you’ve
been out.”
ODA and OHA, in part-
nership with the Centers
for Disease Control and
Protection (CDC) and the
U.S. Food and Drug Ad-
ministration (FDA), are
working together offering
guidance to employers as
they work to ensure the
health and safety of their
employees and the food
and agricultural workforce
that help keep the food sup-
ply chain strong. Workers
are the backbone of this
critical infrastructure.
“Our top priority is to
provide as much support
and guidance to our gro-
cery stores, food banks,
food processors and ag-
riculture industry as we
can to help protect their
workforce and the public,”
said ODA Director Alexis
Taylor. “Our food safety in-
spectors are still on the job
offering remote and in-per-
son inspections, doing their
best to keep the food supply
moving and helping pro-
vide the safest food possible
to all Oregonians.”
Grocery stores, food
processors and distribu-
tors have been provided
guidance on how to protect
their workforce and con-
sumers from COVID-19.
This includes the follow-
ing CDC and FDA recom-
mendations:
• Enforce physical dis-
tancing in lines, separate
customers and employees
by six feet whenever possi-
ble.
• Install floor markings
to require customers to
stand behind, until it’s time
to complete the transaction.
• Consider limiting the
number of people in the
store at one time; imple-
ment a maximum capacity
and assign staff to manage
the number of people en-
tering.
• Consider setting special
hours for vulnerable popu-
lations, such as the elderly
or immuno-compromised.
Guidance was also pro-
vided for sanitization and
employee protection to fur-
ther inhibit transmission
in manufacturing environ-
ments and grocery stores.
Some recommendations
include:
• Do not allow symptom-
atic (fever of 100.4° F or
greater, signs of a fever, or
other symptoms) or ill em-
ployees to report for duty.
• Regularly clean and dis-
infect surfaces to limit em-
ployee contact and increase
frequency of cleaning and
sanitizing of common
touch points (door handles,
touchscreens, keypads).
• Consider altering store
hours to allow for increased
cleaning and re-stocking
without customers present.
• Cross-train employees
and rotate staff between
cashier, stocking and other
duties, to limit mental fa-
tigue in adhering to social
distancing measures.
• Consider installing
sneeze-guards at cashier
stations.
• Schedule handwashing
breaks every 30-60 min-
utes. Employees should
wash hands with soap and
water for at least 20 sec-
onds. If soap and water are
not available and hands are
not visibly dirty, an alco-
hol-based hand sanitizer
that contains 60-95 percent
alcohol may be used.
Additional
guidance
is available at www.fda.
gov/food/food-safe-
ty-during-emergencies/
what-do-if-you-have-
covid-19-confirmed-posi-
tive-or-exposed-workers-
your-food-production-
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located in the driver com-
partment of the vehicle.
The driver, Juan Felipe
Moreno, 20, of Florida,
and the passenger, Jose
Noe Guisjon, 30, of Cali-
fornia, will be referred to
the Lane County District
Attorney’s Offi ce for Mon-
ey Laundering.
Moreno was cited for
Driving Under the Infl u-
ence of Intoxicants.
Oregon State Police
Troopers were assisted by
the Department of Home-
land Security Medford Of-
fi ce.
OSP
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cealed in a package of dia-
pers and the marijuana was
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of financial support, so I
kind of put the two togeth-
er,” said Duncan.
The aid is geared to-
ward people who have
recently been laid off and
lack access to social safety
nets. Duncan’s fundrais-
er awards up to $100 to
applicants, “which in the
grand scheme of things is
just a drop in the bucket,”
she said, “but it helps.”
Donations have steadi-
ly streamed in since the
fundraiser began collect-
ing on April 16, totaling
about $1,500 as of May 7.
So far, the program has
managed to distribute
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nity members, mostly
awarding $100 each.
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Facebook at the “Health
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