OHSU coronavirus (COVID-19) response | OHSU Information

As of Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023

Sufferers hospitalized with COVID-19

• OHSU: 15
• Hillsboro Medical Heart: 6
• OHSU Hospital and OHSU Well being Hillsboro Medical Heart hospitalization particulars:
  • 5 Not Absolutely Vaccinated/Unvaccinated
  • 12 Absolutely Vaccinated
  • 4 Absolutely Vaccinated with Booster
    • 0 de-isolated
    • 21 infectious
• 5 Sufferers in ICU
  • 2 Not Absolutely Vaccinated/Unvaccinated
  • 3 Absolutely Vaccinated
  • 0 Absolutely Vaccinated with Booster
• 3 Sufferers on a Ventilator
  • 1 Not Absolutely Vaccinated/Unvaccinated
  • 2 Absolutely Vaccinated
  • 0 Absolutely Vaccinated with Booster
• Adventist Well being Portland: 4

OHSU makes use of the time period “totally vaccinated” to explain the vaccination standing of members and sufferers, and the CDC makes use of the time period “updated.” People are thought of “totally vaccinated” after they have: a) obtained each doses of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine, or b) one dose of a single-dose vaccine, and c) at the least 14 days have handed because the particular person’s last dose. People are thought of “updated” concerning vaccinations after they have obtained all doses within the main sequence and all boosters beneficial for them, when eligible: View the CDC’s information.

To seek out vaccination choices close to you, go to: https://govstatus.egov.com/find-covid-19-vaccine.

OHSU-specific knowledge

• Since Feb. 28, 2020, there have been 270,850 sufferers examined. Amongst these, a complete of 29,509 COVID-19 instances have been detected; 15 sufferers are presently in hospital; and 121 sufferers have checks pending. There have been 227 in-hospital deaths.
• There have been 14 new detected affected person instances since Jan. 24.
• To this point, OHSU has accomplished 46,254 COVID-19 checks for 14,266 employees and college students. Of these, 4,715 checks for 3,873 employees and college students detected COVID-19; 41,047 checks for 12,706 people resulted in not detected; 351 checks are pending.

OHSU group vaccinations

• OHSU has administered 466,731 vaccine doses by means of its group vaccination websites, along with the 546,166 vaccine doses administered thus far by means of the Oregon Conference Heart vaccination website, which was collectively managed by OHSU, Legacy Well being, Kaiser Permanente and Windfall Well being & Providers. (For extra details about group places and who’s eligible, see “Group COVID-19 vaccination websites” under.)

Because the state’s tutorial well being heart, Oregon Well being & Science College stays engaged with state and native public well being authorities and well being techniques throughout the metro space to coordinate a regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose is to include the unfold of the virus, together with by means of the usage of vaccines that first arrived at OHSU on Dec. 15, 2020.

Starting within the earliest days of the pandemic, OHSU activated an emergency operations heart that tailored response plans already in place from earlier pandemic influenza outbreaks, and this group continues to fulfill.

OHSU has ready to deal with a surge of sufferers with COVID-19 whereas working proactively to include the unfold of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and defend our workforce.

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Group COVID-19 vaccination websites

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COVID-19 testing

OHSU is dedicated to making sure all Oregonians have entry to COVID-19 testing and applicable well being care, significantly individuals of shade and different people from communities hardest hit by COVID-19. All through the pandemic, OHSU supplied low-barrier drive-through testing that has tracked surges in case counts, at varied factors accommodating as many as 700 individuals a day by means of websites in Hillsboro, the Oregon Conference Heart and the Portland Expo Heart.

Beginning March 14, 2022, sufferers and group members can get free COVID-19 testing at OHSU rapid care clinics on its South Waterfront Campus and in Beaverton. Testing will probably be indoor and by appointment from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday by means of Friday. Individuals could name OHSU’s Related Care Heart at 833-647-8222 to schedule.

Learn more about other OHSU COVID-19 testing options and resources.

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Affected person care

• OHSU is following the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention’s recommendations to permit vital perform well being care employees to return to work six days, somewhat than 10 days, after a COVID-19 an infection beneath the next circumstances: Workers have had gentle to reasonable sickness and are usually not immunocompromised; and their signs are enhancing and they’re in any other case feeling effectively. This transformation permits OHSU to handle group well being care wants and staffing challenges associated to COVID-19. Workers on this place will probably be required to put on N-95 masks.
• On Feb. 1, 2022, OHSU opened a Centralized Transportation Heart. Workers is on the market seven days per week to assist schedule transportation for sufferers shifting between buildings or discharging from the hospital and clinics. The middle permits OHSU to extra shortly make house for brand spanking new sufferers throughout the present surge in instances pushed by the omicron variant.
• OHSU manages an unprecedented surge of critically ill patients from the delta variant starting in the summertime of 2021. Frontline well being care employees reiterate the significance of individuals getting vaccinated. “It is a preventable sickness,” says Erin Boni, R.N., B.S.N., “This does not need to occur to anybody anymore.”
• OHSU has established a Long COVID-19 Program to supply complete, coordinated take care of individuals experiencing debilitating signs months after their an infection.
• OHSU has established a sequence of steps to arrange sufferers who’ve recovered from COVID-19 for elective surgery following their illness. It is believed to be the primary revealed protocol laying out a COVID-era path ahead in American medication.
• OHSU has applied a “masks on” coverage for all sufferers, guests and employees contained in the hospital. All staff who work in affected person care areas obtain masks offered by OHSU. 
• OHSU’s analysis group got here collectively to launch an in-house COVID-19 testing lab on March 24, 2020. The lab is an instance of the numerous collaborations which were occurring at OHSU and within the well being care group. On this case, members of the analysis group rallied to help the medical group and testing in a drive to fight COVID-19. The lab’s capability significantly expanded in October 2020.
• In June 2021, OHSU obtained federal and state funding to dramatically expand the state’s ability to track variants of concern throughout Oregon and Southwest Washington.
• OHSU’s Telemedicine Program affords a chance for sufferers to seek the advice of with licensed clinicians by means of a phone or video connection from their house, limiting obstacles to well being care entry. The service has expanded exponentially in response to COVID-19.

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Workforce administration

• OHSU has offered childcare accommodations, together with a $7.5 million hardship stipend, to assist maintain its workforce throughout the pandemic.
• A training video OHSU developed to arrange its college students and employees to offer COVID-19 vaccines is now getting used to coach California paramedics and emergency medical technicians as that state ramps up its struggle towards the pandemic.
• OHSU has instituted a wellness program designed to help clinicians, staff and college students throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. One instance is a grant-funded program that paid native eating places to produce hot meals for high-impact frontline health care workers following the vacations.
• OHSU is selling bodily distancing inside the college, and consists of requiring non-critical perform staff to work remotely and minimizing the variety of individuals gathered for in-person conferences by means of video and teleconferencing alternate options. 

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Analysis and growth

• OHSU knowledge scientist Peter Graven, Ph.D., has offered weekly updates of projections for hospitalizations statewide, which will become biweekly as the wave of infections generated by the omicron variant recedes. Starting early within the pandemic, Graven modeled the projected unchecked unfold of the virus and commenced sharing these projections with state and native policymakers on the onset of the pandemic in Oregon in March of 2020. These projections helped inform Oregon’s “Keep House, Save Lives” efforts to cut back the unfold of the virus and guarantee it would not exceed the capability of well being techniques to deal with a surge of sufferers who required hospitalization.
• A laboratory examine revealed Dec. 16, 2021, means that breakthrough infections following vaccination generate “super immunity” to COVID-19. Follow-up research published on Jan. 25, 2022, reveals equally robust immunity from infection followed by vaccination. OHSU research published online on April 29, 2021, suggests that individuals beforehand contaminated with the novel coronavirus stand to get a significantly better advantage of safety towards new variants in the event that they’re vaccinated. An earlier laboratory study highlighted the significance of stopping the unfold of virus variants by means of vaccination. And one other laboratory examine reveals telltale signals of immunity towards new variants within the blood of individuals 11 months after an infection. On July 21, 2021, OHSU scientists co-authored a examine revealed within the Journal of the American Medical Affiliation linking age to immune response measured in blood serum.
• An OHSU study goals to raised perceive the immune system’s response to COVID-19 throughout and after being pregnant.
• OHSU scientists and physicians are engaged in a multipronged effort throughout the establishment to enhance scientific understanding of the novel coronavirus and produce the pandemic beneath management.
• In November 2020, OHSU introduced a partnership with the native nonprofit Self Enhancement Inc. on a pilot study that mixes wastewater monitoring with voluntary saliva-based testing of residents in 4 Portland neighborhoods. Preliminary outcomes are promising, and the undertaking has helped forge connections with historically underserved communities.
• An OHSU-led evidence review, revealed in June 2020, finds that facial coverings seem to lower the danger of spreading respiratory diseases in group settings.
• OHSU knowledge scientists are main a nationwide collaboration of clinicians, informaticians and different biomedical researchers who intention to show knowledge from a whole lot of 1000’s of medical data from coronavirus sufferers into efficient therapies and predictive analytical instruments that would assist reduce or finish the pandemic.
• OHSU has joined with different universities and tutorial medical facilities throughout the nation to ease licensing necessities to expedite promising new applied sciences to diagnose, deal with and forestall COVID-19. 

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Group measures

• OHSU offers free screening for COVID-19 among students in K-12 schools throughout three areas of the state, in a partnership with the Oregon Well being Authority and Oregon Division of Training.
• OHSU dramatically increased the region’s ability to track virus variants, by means of new investments by federal and state public well being authorities. The initiative harnesses the college’s medical and analysis experience.
• Within the struggle towards COVID-19, OHSU raced to vaccinate as many Oregonians as quickly as possible. Over time, the purpose is to drive the virus into submission by reducing off its potential to unfold.
• On Dec. 3, 2020, Gov. Kate Brown appointed Louis Picker, M.D., as one among two Oregon scientists to independently overview the security and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines that obtain emergency use authorization from the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration. On Dec. 11, 2020, Brown appointed OHSU Chief Administration Officer Connie Seeley as a particular advisor for vaccine implementation in Oregon.
• OHSU established a Related Care Heart, accessible by cellphone to individuals all through Oregon who search perception in regards to the care of signs associated to COVID-19. The cellphone quantity is 833-647-8222.
• OHSU President Danny Jacobs, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, joined different nationwide well being care leaders in raising alarm about disparities in well being outcomes alongside racial and socioeconomic strains amongst these laid low with COVID-19. OHSU researchers confirmed the disproportionate influence of the virus on Black and Hispanic populations with an evidence review published Dec. 1, 2020.

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