NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — New Jersey’s largest hospital system simply reinstated a masks mandate for all hospital workers, sufferers and guests.
Masks are actually required in any respect hospitals owned by RWJ Barnabas, which is headquartered in New Brunswick. The hospital instated the masks requirement efficient Monday of this week.
In this new alert posted Monday, RWJ stated they may present new masks for everybody who walks of their doorways, they usually “could ask you to interchange your personal masks with a hospital-supplied masks.” Hospital guests may even be requested to wipe their fingers down with sanitizer earlier than coming into hospital services.
This comes as COVID-19 instances have been rising in New Jersey, however are the an infection danger is listed as “low,” in accordance with the newest knowledge from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
New Jersey’s different two largest well being system, Hackensack Meridian and Atlantic Health, don’t at the moment have a masks mandate in place for hospital guests or workers.
At RWJ’s outpatient services, resembling docs’ workplaces, masks aren’t at the moment required however are “strongly inspired.”
Also, RWJ asks that you probably have a fever, cough, muscle or physique aches, or are experiencing COVID-19 or flu-like signs, or you probably have examined constructive for COVID-19 or one other contagious respiratory sickness, resembling flu or RSV, that you simply keep house and never come into the hospital.
At RWJ docs’ workplaces, masks are required for any affected person or physician treating anybody with respiratory signs. And, “each affected person has the best to request their healthcare supplier and workers put on a masks when treating them,” stated RWJ Barnabas this week.
