Did your hospital quietly switch to the CDC’s March 2024 respiratory virus guidance? Ours flipped Monday: 24 hours fever-free with improving symptoms, then 5 days masking — and this keeps showing up in an Epic banner, a Kronos punch warning, and a new badge card — anyone else seeing different enforcement by unit?
Our med-surg flipped to “24 hrs fever-free + 5-day mask,” but ICU still wants Occ Health clearance for aerosol cases and oncology kept a day-10 test-to-return. If your unit’s fuzzy, ping Infection Prevention for the unit addendum — ours mirrors CDC’s update: https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/guidance.html, and the Epic banner nags like a Fitbit. Are you getting Kronos punch blocks unless you attest “improving,” or is that just us?
We flipped Monday too — the Epic banner repeats “24 hours fever-free with improving symptoms + mask 5 days,” but Occ Health’s clearance email still quotes the old 10-day language, which drives me nuts. We cut down confusion by having IT update the Kronos punch warning to match unit exceptions and adding a tiny “mask thru day 5” note in the Epic storyboard; @huca259 could your manager submit a quick ticket to sync those messages across Epic/Kronos?