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MENDOCINO COAST DISTRICT HOSPITAL HUMAN RESOURCES POLICY AND PROCEDURE STATEMENT

NUMBER: 130.3080 PAGE: 1 OF 3

TITLE: Return to work after illness

PURPOSE: To ensure a healthy, disease free workforce and to decrease the number of nosocomial infections.

POLICY: To assure that employees are able to return to work and are no longer contagious when a communicable illness or disease is reported. (See list below)

PROCEDURE:

A. In Coordination with Policy #170.1010 Employees reporting a potentially communicable or diagnosed communicable disease (refer to Addendum A below) or absent as a result of a short-term illness of 3 or more scheduled shifts:

1. The employee will be required to report a potential or diagnosed communicable or infectious disease to the Employee Health Nurse regardless if there were scheduled shifts absent or not. 2. Upon returning to work from a reported potentially or diagnosed communicable or infectious disease, the employee will be required to see the Employee Health Nurse before the first shift worked if required per the Occupational Health policy "Workability of Employees with Communicable and Infectious Diseases". Depending on the illness, the employee may or may not be presenting a return to work statement from an attending health care provider.

3. If in the opinion of the Employee Health Nurse, the employee should not return to work, the employee will be relieved and requested to return to work with a statement from an attending health care provider.

4. The employee will be required to see the Employee Health Nurse and present a return to work statement from the attending health care provider before the first shift worked following the absence.

B. The employee will be required to see the Employee Health Nurse and present a return to work statement from the attending health care provider before the first shift worked following the absence. MENDOCINO COAST DISTRICT HOSPITAL HUMAN RESOURCES POLICY AND PROCEDURE STATEMENT

1. Communicable diseases in healthcare workers, as listed in Addendum A, will be reported within 24 hours of knowledge, or suspicion, by the Employee Health Office to the Infection Control Office

2. The Employee Health Office will record absences as a result of a communicable disease. A report and summary is available sorted by disease or diagnosis providing the number of employees absent, the departments involved, and the length of absences

Reportable Communicable or Infectious Diseases in Health Care Workers

Diphtheria E. coli Encephalitis Fever Herpes Simplex Influenza Invasive Group A Streptococcal Disease Invasive Meningococcal Disease Measles Meningitis, bacterial or aseptic Mumps MRSA Pertussis Pink Eye Poliomyelitis RSV Rubella Salmonella Scabies Shigellosis Staph or Strep Infection Tuberculosis Disease Tuberculosis Infection Varicella (Chickenpox) Viral Respiratory Infections, Acute Febrile Zoster Atypical Pneumonia MENDOCINO COAST DISTRICT HOSPITAL HUMAN RESOURCES POLICY AND PROCEDURE STATEMENT

Attachments: Policy #170.1010

New: Revised:

Approval Signatures:

______Employee Health Coordinator Date

______Infection Control Officer Date

______Chief, Human Resources Date

______Chief Executive Officer Date

______President, Board of Directors Date