As a health care setting, UConn Health still requires face masks and physically distancing inside our facilities. Get the latest on visitor guidelines, COVID-19 vaccines, and safety measures we have in place.

Provider Toolkits

Critical Care Resources (Epic)

7/21: Fact Sheet for Health Care Providers Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of Casirivimab and Imdevimab

12/2/20: Fact Sheet for Health Care Providers Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of Bamlanivimab

12/2/20: Fact Sheet for Patients, Parents and Caregivers Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of Bamlanivimab for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

12/2/20: Fact Sheet for Patients, Parents and Caregivers Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of Casirivimab and Imdevimab for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

6/5/20: UConn Health Endotracheal Intubation

6/5/20: UConn Health COVID-19 Medical Emergency/Cardiac Arrest Guidelines

4/22/20: COVID Patient STAT Intubation Floor Checklist

COVID-19 Basic Protocols

3/13/20: Clinical Criteria for COVID-19 Patient

3/13/20: How to Protect Yourself

3/13/20: What to Do If You Are Exposed to Someone with COVID-19

3/13/20: What to Do If You Get Sick

Screening for COVID-19 and Isolation of Suspect Cases

3/13/20: Location of Care and Management by Patient Type

Ambulatory Clinic
If a patient calls in for an appointment, see updated workflow below. If the patient arrives at the clinic front desk, and the staff identifies a patient with a history of travel from any area of concern, has fever and cold symptoms alert RN/MA, provide a mask to the patient and segregate, and follow screening workflow below.

3/13/20: Ambulatory Clinic Information for Phone Screen and Arrival in Clinic Screen

Emergency Department
RN or first point of contact should perform initial travel screening at triage for all patients with fever or symptoms of lower respiratory illness.

3/14/20: Emergency Department Identifying Screening Workflow

COVID-19 Guidance for Providers

4/24/20: Transferring a COVID-19 Positive Patient to Another Floor

4/22/20: Guidance to UConn Health Providers in Caring for Patients with COVID-19 Returning to Ambulatory Settings

4/21/20: Supplemental COVID Rehabilitation Activity Program

3/15/20: Collection of Specimen COVID-19 (NP and OP)

3/13/20: Certifying COVID-19 Deaths

Testing Guidance (Epic)

7/8/21: Pre-op and Pre-procedure Testing Algorithm

12/21/20: Testing Patients Being Hospitalized at JDH for COVID-19

12/21/20: Guidelines for Discontinuation of Transmission Based Precautions for Patients Who Have Recovered from COVID-19

6/10/20: COVID-19 Testing Summary for Providers

Fact Sheets for Health Care Providers

3/31/21: BD VeritorTM System for Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV-2 - BD

10/9/20: Abbott SARS-CoV-2 IgM Assay

10/5/20: Hologic Aptima® SARS-CoV-2 Assay

10/1/20: Cepheid Xpert Xpress SARS‐CoV‐2/Flu/RSV

8/31/20: Lyra Direct SARS-CoV-2 Assay

5/29/20: Abbott SARS-CoV-2 IgG Assay

5/20/20: Cepheid Xpert® Xpress SARS-CoV-2

4/8/20: Quidel Lyra SARS-CoV-2 Assay

Recommended Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Providing Care

10/21/20: Ambulatory PPE Guidance

10/7/20: Mask and Shield Update

7/22/20: Mask and Face Shield Protocols for Healthcare Providers

5/8/20: Reprocessing N95 Masks

3/15/20: COVID-19 PPE for Healthcare Personnel

3/15/20: Sequence for Putting On and Removing PPE
After performing the sequence, please wipe off goggles inside the patient’s room, take them out and put on the PAPR cart to dry.

3/13/20: Limited Reuse of N95 Respirators

3/13/20: Patient Transport: Isolation and Transportation Requirements

    OB/GYN Protocol

    3/20/20: UConn Health COVID-19 OB/GYN Protocol

    3/20/20: Support People: Labor & Deliver, OB/GYN

    3/20/20: Guidelines for Neonate Born to COVID Pos PUI or PUM

    3/15/20: ACOG COVID-19 Algorithm

    Appendix

    4/13/20: COVID-19 Fact Sheets for Patients in 30+ Languages

    4/13/20: Return to Work Criteria for HCP with Confirmed or Suspected COVID-19 (Symptomatic)

    4/11/20: 10 Things Patients Can Do to Manage Their Health at Home

    4/8/20: Drive-Through COVID-19 Sampling Sites

    3/30/20: Interim US Guidance for Risk Assessment and Public Health Management of Persons with Potential Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Exposures: Geographic Risk and Contacts of Laboratory-confirmed Cases

    3/13/20: Interim Guide for Home Care of People Not Requiring Hospitalization (COVID-19)