{"id":2075,"date":"2020-11-09T12:26:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T20:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2021-02-22T21:47:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T05:47:33","slug":"containment-of-a-covid-19-outbreak-in-an-inpatient-geriatric-psychiatry-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/09\/containment-of-a-covid-19-outbreak-in-an-inpatient-geriatric-psychiatry-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Containment of a COVID-19 Outbreak in an Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An inpatient geriatric psychiatry unit in King County, Washington reported a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak between March 11-18, 2020, with 9 inpatients and 7 staff members with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection. Enhanced infection prevention interventions and engagement of frontline psychiatric care staff following the outbreak effectively contained the outbreak, with no further patients and only one staff member testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 over the subsequent 2 months.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Constantino-Shor et al. (Nov 6, 2020). Containment of a COVID-19 Outbreak in an Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry Unit. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1078390320970653\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1078390320970653<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An inpatient geriatric psychiatry unit in King County, Washington reported a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak between March 11-18, 2020, with 9 inpatients and 7 staff members with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection. Enhanced infection prevention interventions and engagement of frontline psychiatric care staff following the outbreak effectively contained the outbreak, with no further patients and only one staff member&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/09\/containment-of-a-covid-19-outbreak-in-an-inpatient-geriatric-psychiatry-unit\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54,68],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-2075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-health-care-setting","tag-washington","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2076,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions\/2076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}