Housing and COVID-19

We are taking the following steps:

Masks

• All staff are required to wear procedure or cloth masks.
  
• All residents are required to wear masks when outside of their room and unable to stay at least 6 feet apart from others. Every resident is provided a new procedure mask each day.
  
• All clinic visitors must wear masks.

Screening and Testing

• Residents are screened for COVID-19 symptoms at many different points before and during their stay, including:
  
  • One week before they arrive. 
    
  • When they check-in to houses. 
    
  • Before getting on the Fred Hutch shuttle. 
    
  • At the entrance to the South Lake Union Clinic.
• If a resident is found to be symptomatic during any of these points, they will receive instructions on what to do next.

Social Distancing

• Residents are asked to limit time in shared spaces that must be used, such as the kitchen and laundry areas at South Lake Union House.
• All common areas in the South Lake Union House are closed; this includes the dining, fitness, media, and wellness rooms.
• Residents are asked to practice social distancing at all times. 

Other

• All high traffic areas are cleaned at least 3 times daily.
• Patients are asked to limit the number of people staying with them.
• No visitors are allowed in the houses. Home health care workers are an exception. 
• Patients and caregivers must provide their cell phone numbers at check-in. This allows us to contact them if they are exposed to a COVID-19 positive patient.
• Residents receive weekly written COVID-19 updates from housing leadership.