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WashU Med COVID-19 Update June 1, 2020
Information for School of Medicine faculty, staff and students
Today's COVID-19 stats from BJH
Returning to campus?
Are you heading back to the Med Campus for work? Before you return, be sure
you’re prepared. Check out this guide to what you need to know about returning to
campus, including:
Campus screening and entry requirements
Reinstating parking
Online safety training
New safety procedures
Workspace preparedness
New daily screening tool for WashU personnelBeginning today, June 1, all faculty, staff and
trainees at the School of Medicine must use a new
screening tool to enter buildings on the Medical
Campus. The online WashU COVID-19 Screening
Tool can be accessed at screening.wustl.edu. The
process takes less than a minute to complete. This
tool replaces the BJC HealthCare screening app
for all WashU personnel.
To complete the daily screening, log in to the tool
using your WUSTL Key no earlier than two hours
prior to your arrival to work.You will be asked about
recent exposures and common COVID-19
symptoms and prompted to record your
temperature. (If you do not have a thermometer,
your temperature will be taken at a campus
screening station.) Show results to screeners, and
you will receive a sticker to place on your badge if you are good to go to work.
Click here for comprehensive information about the screening process.
In 1990, Dr. Robert Poirier was tasked with solving anepidemic to come in 2020. Now, he’s living it.
Above: Katherine Mercurio, staff nurse, Rob Poirier, MD, and Kristen Mueller, MD,
talk with a patient at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. In 1990, when he was a high school
student, Poirier joined a problem-solving team at his school in Rhode Island. One
of the topics he addressed: How to solve an epidemic to come in the year 2020.
Now, he's treating COVID-19 patients as the clinical chief of the emergency
department. Poirier talks about his experiences in a recent St. Louis Magazine
article.
Fitness challenge unites nation's top medical centersto support health-care heroes
Medical centers across the United States are participating in a fitness program
called #FitForTheFrontLine, which is aimed at honoring front-line health-care
workers who have worked tirelessly to save lives during the coronavirus pandemic.
It encourages Americans young and old to move, exercise and get fit to increase
awareness and raise funds to support our nation’s health-care heroes. The
challenge began this week and will culminate Sunday, June 14 (Flag Day).
Tell us how you're doingThe coronavirus pandemic has caused significant changes in work and family
lives. The Healthy Work Center and the Employee Wellness program at
Washington University are trying to better understand the personal and family
challenges that have resulted. We are asking your participation in a 10-minute
survey that asks about work and family stresses that you have experienced due to
the coronavirus. We also ask about Washington University resources that would
be helpful to you in the months to come. Survey results are anonymous.
To take the survey, please click on this link.
Stepping up
Med students display face shields they designed to help address PPE shortages.
Important numbers and linksCall the BJC/WUSM employee hotline for COVID-19 exposure or illness:
314-362-5056
Use this online screening tool before reporting to work
Know your screening stations
Review inpatient protocol
Review ambulatory protocol
Call the Coping with COVID hotline for in-the-moment emotional support:
314-286-1700
Contact the Employee Assistance Program for 24/7 work-life support: 844-
365-4587
Email inspirational stories to [email protected]
For Medical Campus updates, visit coronavirus.med.wustl.edu »
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