Healthify Blog 4 Ways to Streamline Your Workflow in the Ever-Changing COVID-19 Landscape

Healthcare organizations, state agencies, and community-based organizations are working together in the fight against COVID-19 to distribute rapid tests, run vaccine clinics, and hand out masks, all while adapting their workflows and processes to account for the CDC’s constantly changing COVID-19 guidelines.   The most recent, announced in December 2021, recommends isolation or quarantine for five days as opposed to ten after testing positive for COVID-19 without symptoms – and then wearing a mask for five days more. For those who have been exposed, ten days of masking is encouraged. The responses to these changes are mixed, but these guidelines have, without a doubt, caused continued strain on those working in high-risk congregate settings, such as homeless shelters, residential living facilities, and prisons. New guidelines often require new workflows.