MDH Task Force SARS
Manila Doctors Hospital
Created: April 2, 2003
First Organizational
Meeting: April 4, 2003
This website is intended to serve as a
resource of information for the external and internal clients of Manila Doctors
Hospital on SARS matters.
Through this website, the clients will be
given updates on what the MDH Task Force SARS is doing to prevent and control
SARS in MDH.
Through this website too, MDH would like to
share its best hospital practices on the prevention and control of SARS.
Date first posted: May 5,
2003
Last updated: December 1,
2003
Goal:
To
effectively and efficiently manage, in terms of prevention and control, SEVERE
ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME (SARS) in Manila Doctors Hospital (MDH).
Objectives:
1.
To
formulate hospital-wide policies and strategies in the prevention and control
of SARS in MDH.
2.
To
supervise and coordinate the implementation of the formulated policies and
strategies.
3.
To
evaluate the MDH SARS prevention and control program.
Targets:
Prevention:
NO SARS patient admitted in MDH
Control:
If there is a SARS patient in MDH,
NO staff infected with SARS
NO client (patient) infected
with SARS
No mortality from SARS
1ST PUBLIC NOTICE ON SARS May 5,
2003
TRANSITION
MEASURES IN PHASING OUT TASK FORCE SARS July 11, 2003
CLOSING
REPORT ON MDH TASK FORCE SARS August 8, 2003
WHO
recognizes MDH Anti-SARS Program
Content of Website:
How MDH
program on SARS started
Organizational
primer of MDH Task Force SARS
MDH Task Force
SARS - Quality System Procedures
Members of MDH Task
Force SARS
Management Action Plan
(Hospital Preparedness) on SARS
Level 3 Preparedness as of May 16, 2003 (complete
policies and procedures, physical facilities, and training with drills)
MDH
Clinical and Infection Control Procedural Guidelines on SARS
SARS Triage /
Screening / Holding Area
ER procedural
guidelines in handling SARS Suspect and Probable SARS
Department of Radiology
guidelines in handling SARS Suspect and Probable SARS
Administrative Memos on SARS
Policies on Management of
SARS Patients (March 28, 2003)
Creation of MDH Task
Force SARS
Manila Doctors
Hospital Protocol for the Containment of SARS (April 11, 2003)
Policies and
Procedures on Declaration of SARS patients being confined in MDH (May 2, 2003)
Policies and Procedures on MDH Employees Exposed to Persons and Places with Possible SARS outside MDH (May 2, 2003)
Designation of Dr.
Melecia Velmonte and Dr. Cecilia Montalban as MDH Consultants on SARS
Designation of
Sector Coordinators, Responsibilities, and Authorization
Policies of
interest to MDH physicians
Transition measures to
phasing out Task Force SARS
July 11, 2003 Memo : All patients with pneumonia
should be admitted to single private rooms for at least 48 hours for isolation
and monitoring.
Evaluation
Report cum Reflection (June 2, 2003)
Challenges in
a hospital SARS preparedness and control program (RJOSON August 12, 2003)
Links
Department of Health National
Epidemiology Center
Philippine SARS Response Network (PSRN)
World Health Organization SARS Page
US Center for Disease Control and
Prevention
Welcome
comments email: rjoson@maniladoctors.com.ph
Manila Doctors Hospital Cares.
Manila Doctors Hospital is one of the few
private hospitals in the Philippines with a structured and comprehensive Task
Force SARS.
