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Senior Voice of Citrus County - JUNE 2020 • 17
Citrus Memorial Hospital Resumes Elective Procedures
By Megan Carella six feet apart from other patients CMH cleans and disinfects
or visitors. Everyone entering the “high-touch” areas, such as
Citrus Memorial Hospital facility must wear a mask, wash waiting and registration rooms,
(CMH) has resumed some hands or use hand sanitizer. every two hours. Any Covid-19
outpatient surgeries and elective positive patients or those being
procedures, in accordance with “Everyone in our facility has a ruled out for the virus are placed
Centers for Disease Control mask on,” said Carroll. “We’re in a separate unit with specific
(CDC) and state guidelines for all masked to protect each other.” staff. Surgery or other patients
phased reopening.
Once registered, patients are who must spend the night at the
According to Ginger Carroll, Ginger Carroll, FACHE, CMH escorted to their location, such as hospital are cared for in units on
FACHE, CMH chief executive chief executive officer OR pre-admit or radiology. One other floors of the hospital.
officer, patients will see some visitor per patient is allowed in “Our goals and policies comply
differences to ensure patient and asked a series of key questions designated waiting rooms to get with CDC guidelines,” said
staff safety. – do they have symptoms, have post-procedure instructions and Carroll. “We are focused on
they been around anyone with drive the patient home.
“First, anyone coming into the patient and employee safety
hospital for surgery or other symptoms,” she said. “We are prohibiting food and so everything we’re doing is
procedures will be tested for “When we test them, we ask drink in those waiting areas, centered around making sure that
Covid-19 72 hours prior. Once that they stay home for those 72 have removed coffee stations and we provide great care in a safe
we get that back and they’re hours and not be around other disconnected water fountains,” environment.
negative, on the day of their people, but we’ll still ask those Carroll said. “The visitor is not “We want the public to know
procedure they’ll stop at a questions to make sure that allowed to wander around the that if you need a procedure, the
screening location before they haven’t been traveling around,” hospital or go to the cafeteria. He hospital is ready and prepared to
come into the hospital. They’ll she added. or she must stay in the waiting keep you safe,” she added.
have a temperature check and be area.”
In the hospital, patients are kept
Lockdown Gratitude
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MindShift
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and then they had to deal
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greater personal power, clarity, dangerous foe. They had
By Donna peace, love, and joy. already buried millions and I am grateful that treatment
Blevins, would bury millions more and vaccine research are well
PhD, Consider this. Compare our before it was over. underway and began almost
immediately once we knew
current situation with what
and Daniel people had to cope with I am grateful that we what we were up against.
Melbourne during the Spanish Flu a encountered this virus in
century ago. a time of peace—with the I am grateful that most of us
strongest global economy in have been able to practice
Finding gratitude during a In 1918, they suffered tens history. social distancing, and
pandemic, or any other life- of millions of deaths, and many can continue to work
challenging event, requires scarcely understood what was I am grateful that as of this remotely.
a pivot in our thinking—a happening, let alone how to writing, the Coronavirus I am grateful that today’s
transformative MindShift— stop it. There was no option deaths* worldwide are a technology allows us to
but it can become second but to let the disease run its fraction of what our ancestors order-in, entertain ourselves,
nature with consistent course. They dealt with the faced more than a hundred remotely gather for work,
practice. unspeakable loss the best they years ago. (*313,215 play, and precious family
could. according to WHO, the World
Gratitude makes everything Health Organization). moments, have groceries
look and feel better. They had just come through
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