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<v 0>So the first, uh,</v>

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project that we're working on is skilled nursing facility testing.

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So these are our Medicare certified skilled nursing facilities.

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There's 147 of them statewide. So we discussed this last week,

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as we were talking about what we were going to do to protect those vulnerable

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adults in this congregate setting, we started our first, uh,

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long term care facility testing last Friday, on May 15th.

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We continued to do that. We're working with a contractor,

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that's going out to the,

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the facilities we can do up to 12 facilities per day. And so we're working,

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um, to, to meet that two week requirement,

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we are doing PCR on residents and serology and PCR on staff.

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In addition, we'll be providing the facilities with the test results,

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providing them technical assistance on infection control guidance,

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that's tailored to their specific facility and their specific situation.

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We're providing them with personal protective equipment or PPE so that if they

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do have positives that we identify,

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they can adequately control transmission of that disease.

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We are also providing assistance with staffing, um,

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to get people in there just in case we've got staff that test positive

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and need to be removed from the workplace. And then, um,

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we are also working on a plan to if requested by the facility to provide

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terminal cleaning, so a, a, a final clean, and then they can,

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they can move on. The other thing that we're doing is, um,

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we have reached out and done, um, phone infection control,

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uh, uh, uh, technical assistance.

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And so we have reached out to a hundred percent of those 1 47, um,

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skilled nursing facilities where we've walked through the CMS infection,

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control, guidelines and requirements. Um,

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our goal now is to be on site at every single skilled nursing facility

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to complete that, that infection control survey by June 5th.

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And so all 100% of our skilled nursing facilities will have a

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survey by then. Now,

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not all long term care facilities are Medicare certified.

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So we have assisted living facilities in Arizona that are not Medicare

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certified, they are state licensed.

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So as soon as we have gotten through the skilled nursing facilities,

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we will begin to, uh, test in our residential facilities.

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So these will be assisted living facilities or centers.

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Those are facilities that have 11 or more residents living at them,

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and then assisted living homes,

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which is the majority of our assisted living facilities. Um,

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and those have 10 or less residents, so we'll be working with them. But again,

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we have reached out to a hundred percent of our assisted living facilities to

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provide technical assistance on infection control,

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to make sure that they understand how the executive orders apply to them,

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and then to provide any, um.

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<v 1>Technical assistance that they may need.</v>

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And then we are also working to do focused infection control surveys at, um,

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assisted living centers that have identified issues.