OHSU coronavirus (COVID-19) response | OHSU Information

As of Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022

Sufferers hospitalized with COVID-19

• OHSU: 15
• Hillsboro Medical Middle: 2
• OHSU Hospital and OHSU Well being Hillsboro Medical Middle hospitalization particulars:
  • 9 Not Absolutely Vaccinated
  • 8 Absolutely Vaccinated
  • 0 Absolutely Vaccinated with Booster
    • 1 de-isolated
    • 16 infectious

• 5 Sufferers in ICU
  • 3 Not Absolutely Vaccinated
  • 2 Absolutely Vaccinated
  • 0 Absolutely Vaccinated with Booster

• 1 Sufferers on a Ventilator
  • 1 Not Absolutely Vaccinated
  • 0 Absolutely Vaccinated
  • 0 Absolutely Vaccinated with Booster

• Adventist Well being Portland: 10

OHSU-specific knowledge

• Since Feb. 28, 2020, there have been 266,140 sufferers examined. Amongst these, a complete of 28,872 COVID-19 instances have been detected; 15 sufferers are presently in hospital; and 157 sufferers have exams pending. There have been 218 in-hospital deaths.
• There have been 5 new detected affected person instances since Nov. 21.
• So far, OHSU has accomplished 45,877 COVID-19 exams for 14,196 workers and college students. Of these, 4,651 exams for 3,823 workers and college students detected COVID-19; 40,748 exams for 12,645 people resulted in not detected; 338 exams are pending.

OHSU group vaccinations

• OHSU has administered 462,948 vaccine doses via its group vaccination websites, along with the 546,166 vaccine doses administered to this point via the Oregon Conference Middle vaccination web site, which was collectively managed by OHSU, Legacy Well being, Kaiser Permanente and Windfall Well being & Companies. (For extra details about group areas and who’s eligible, see “Group COVID-19 vaccination websites” under.)

Because the state’s educational well being heart, Oregon Well being & Science College stays engaged with state and native public well being authorities and well being methods throughout the metro space to coordinate a regional response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective is to include the unfold of the virus, together with via using 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 satisfy.

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.

Group COVID-19 vaccination websites

COVID-19 testing

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

Beginning March 14, 2022, sufferers and group members can get free COVID-19 testing at OHSU speedy 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 via Friday. Individuals might name OHSU’s Related Care Middle at 833-647-8222 to schedule.

Study extra about different OHSU COVID-19 testing choices and sources.

Affected person care

• OHSU is following the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention’s suggestions to permit crucial operate well being care workers to return to work six days, fairly than 10 days, after a COVID-19 an infection below the next situations: Workers have had gentle to reasonable sickness and should not immunocompromised; and their signs are bettering and they’re in any other case feeling nicely. This variation 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 Middle. Workers is accessible seven days every week to assist schedule transportation for sufferers shifting between buildings or discharging from the hospital and clinics. The middle permits OHSU to extra rapidly make house for brand new sufferers throughout the present surge in instances pushed by the omicron variant.
• OHSU manages an unprecedented surge of critically unwell sufferers from the delta variant starting in the summertime of 2021. Frontline well being care employees reiterate the significance of individuals getting vaccinated. “This can be a preventable sickness,” says Erin Boni, R.N., B.S.N., “This does not should occur to anybody anymore.”
• OHSU has established a Lengthy COVID-19 Program to offer complete, coordinated look after folks experiencing debilitating signs months after their an infection.
• OHSU has established a sequence of steps to organize sufferers who’ve recovered from COVID-19 for elective surgical procedure following their sickness. It is believed to be the primary revealed protocol laying out a COVID-era path ahead in American medication.
• OHSU has carried out a “masks on” coverage for all sufferers, guests and workers contained in the hospital. All staff who work in affected person care areas obtain masks supplied 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 assist the scientific group and testing in a drive to fight COVID-19. The lab’s capability significantly expanded in October 2020.
• In June 2021, OHSU acquired federal and state funding to dramatically develop the state’s potential to trace variants of concern throughout Oregon and Southwest Washington.
• OHSU’s Telemedicine Program provides a possibility for sufferers to seek the advice of with licensed clinicians via a phone or video connection from their house, limiting boundaries to well being care entry. The service has expanded exponentially in response to COVID-19.

Workforce administration

• OHSU has provided childcare lodging, together with a $7.5 million hardship stipend, to assist maintain its workforce throughout the pandemic.
• A coaching video OHSU developed to organize its college students and workers to present COVID-19 vaccines is now getting used to coach California paramedics and emergency medical technicians as that state ramps up its combat towards the pandemic.
• OHSU has instituted a wellness program designed to assist clinicians, staff and college students throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. One instance is a grant-funded program that paid native eating places to provide scorching meals for high-impact frontline well being care employees following the vacations.
• OHSU is selling bodily distancing throughout the college, and contains requiring non-critical operate staff to work remotely and minimizing the variety of folks gathered for in-person conferences via video and teleconferencing alternate options. 

Analysis and improvement

• OHSU knowledge scientist Peter Graven, Ph.D., has supplied weekly updates of projections for hospitalizations statewide, which can develop into biweekly because 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 started 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 scale back the unfold of the virus and guarantee it would not exceed the capability of well being methods to deal with a surge of sufferers who required hospitalization.
• A laboratory research revealed Dec. 16, 2021, means that breakthrough infections following vaccination generate “tremendous immunity” to COVID-19. Observe-up analysis revealed on Jan. 25, 2022, reveals equally sturdy immunity from an infection adopted by vaccination. OHSU analysis revealed on-line on April 29, 2021, suggests that folks beforehand contaminated with the novel coronavirus stand to get a a lot better advantage of safety towards new variants in the event that they’re vaccinated. An earlier laboratory research highlighted the significance of stopping the unfold of virus variants via vaccination. And one other laboratory research reveals telltale indicators of immunity towards new variants within the blood of individuals 11 months after an infection. On July 21, 2021, OHSU scientists co-authored a research revealed within the Journal of the American Medical Affiliation linking age to immune response measured in blood serum.
• An OHSU research 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 convey the pandemic below management.
• In November 2020, OHSU introduced a partnership with the native nonprofit Self Enhancement Inc. on a pilot research that mixes wastewater monitoring with voluntary saliva-based testing of residents in 4 Portland neighborhoods. Preliminary outcomes are promising, and the venture has helped forge connections with traditionally underserved communities.
• An OHSU-led proof overview, revealed in June 2020, finds that facial coverings seem to lower the danger of spreading respiratory sicknesses in group settings.
• OHSU knowledge scientists are main a nationwide collaboration of clinicians, informaticians and different biomedical researchers who purpose to show knowledge from tons of of 1000’s of medical information 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 educational medical facilities throughout the nation to ease licensing necessities to expedite promising new applied sciences to diagnose, deal with and forestall COVID-19. 

Group measures

• OHSU provides free screening for COVID-19 amongst college students in Okay-12 faculties throughout three areas of the state, in a partnership with the Oregon Well being Authority and Oregon Division of Schooling.
• OHSU dramatically elevated the area’s potential to trace virus variants, via new investments by federal and state public well being authorities. The initiative harnesses the college’s scientific and analysis experience.
• Within the battle towards COVID-19, OHSU raced to vaccinate as many Oregonians as rapidly as potential. Over time, the objective is to drive the virus into submission by chopping off its potential to unfold.
• On Dec. 3, 2020, Gov. Kate Brown appointed Louis Picker, M.D., as one in all 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 Middle, accessible by telephone to folks all through Oregon who search perception in regards to the care of signs associated to COVID-19. The telephone quantity is 833-647-8222.
• OHSU President Danny Jacobs, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, joined different nationwide well being care leaders in elevating alarm about disparities in well being outcomes alongside racial and socioeconomic strains amongst these affected by COVID-19. OHSU researchers confirmed the disproportionate influence of the virus on Black and Hispanic populations with an proof overview revealed Dec. 1, 2020.

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