Topic Overview:Hospital-based Employee Health Services (EHS) are on the front line for community-based outbreaks. It is important to note that some of the appropriate control measures, immunizations practices, and infection control recommendations are similar for different outbreaks, but not all control measures are the same; this is where the challenge arises for an EHS. In the case of measles, not since 1992 has there been a greater number of measles cases in the United States. The principle risk factor was a person not being vaccinated against measles. For the whole of 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 1,282 individual cases of measles in the United States, where 128 of these cases (approximately 10%) were hospitalized. In the case of COVID-19, as of mid-May 2020, there were nearly4.5 million cases and over 303,000 deaths identified on an international level. This presentation will report on the experiences, findings, and outcomes of control interventions for these community-based outbreaks. Specific limitations of the EHS are reviewed, along with implemented solutions.
Objectives:- Review national trends related to measles and coronavirus outbreaks.
- Review the healthcare system’s baseline measures based on established Employee Health Service policies and practices.
- Outline the healthcare system’s recommended changes.
- List the overall outcome measures.
- Discuss recommendations for an Employee Health Service when addressing community-based outbreaks.
