CottageHealthSystem
Source: Cottage Health
With COVID spreading in our community, additional steps are being taken to protect the safety of hospital patients, visitors and healthcare staff. Effective Wednesday, August 11, Cottage Health hospitals in Santa Barbara, Goleta and Santa Ynez Valley will implement the recent California Department of Public Health order requiring visitors to either verify completed COVID-19 vaccination, or verify a negative COVID-19 test result within 72 hours prior each visit.
Staff at the hospital entrances will assist visitors with this screening process. To prepare, we are asking hospital visitors to arrive with their Vaccine Record Card (printed or saved as image on phone), their immunization record from MyChart, or the digital QR code available at myvaccinerecord.cdph.ca.gov.
If vaccination has not been completed, visitors will need a printed or digital copy of a negative COVID test within 72 hours prior to arrival.
All visitors and staff within the hospitals, regardless of vaccination status, are required to wear a mask at all times within all Cottage Health facilities. This is vital to protecting pediatric patients too young to receive vaccine, and immunocompromised patients who are more vulnerable to COVID.
I’m very glad this is happening. This will help reduce risk for healthcare staff as well as patients needing care but hesitant about possible exposure.
This is pretty insane, they don’t ask for your records like for measles for visiting your parents after a heart attack or car wreck
Maybe because there is no measles epidemic? You know because of vaccines…
Very wise move.
We could most likely clear out a lot of the ignorant drivel here if there were a vaccine requirement to comment.
That’s because everyone is already immunized against Measles. And Mumps. And Polio. And Rubella.
While we’re at it how about requiring all Cottage Staff to be vaccinated?
Now if they would just require a covid vax to be hospitalized….
It is still the best place to get sick in town.
Thats why they send you home so fast… car accident at 8PM, out by 2AM.
Call an Uber, get out of here before you get MRSA and the flu.
https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/health/hospital-acquired-infections/index.htm
A vax is like a fire extinguisher. It doesn’t guarantee you don’t ever get a fire, but if you do, you can put it out more quickly with a lot less damage.
Your body your choice. Same goes for everyone else. Obey the constitution and end vaccine mandates.