Genesis Institutes Screening Procedures for Patients and Visitors

Genesis HealthCare System is instituting screening procedures for patients and visitors coming to its facilities. Nurses are stationed at the Genesis Hospital Main Entrance, the Genesis Cancer
Care Center and the Genesis HealthPlex to screen everyone who enters. They are asked if they
have a fever, new cough or shortness of breath. If they say yes, they are given a handout with
instructions to call their family doctor. If they don’t have a family doctor, they are instructed to
call the Genesis NurseLine at (740) 455-4949.

At the Genesis Hospital Emergency Department (ED) and the Genesis FirstCare-North entrance
at the Genesis HealthPlex, there are outside tents where patients and visitors are being screened
by nurses. At the ED entrance, if patients and visitors have a fever, new cough or shortness of
breath, they are transported to an exam room. Those patients without those specific symptoms
are sent into the ED or FirstCare to be seen. Only one visitor per patient is allowed.