July 23: COVID-19 UPDATE

NEW TODAY: Here’s the latest information about Michigan Medicine’s management of operations:

• COVID-19 PATIENT STATS
• TEAM MEMBER COVID-19 TESTING
• FAQs: FACE COVERING REQUIREMENTS AT MICHIGAN MEDICINE
• VIDEO OF JULY 17 TOWN HALL

DAILY COVID-19 PATIENT STATS

Today’s census for COVID-19 inpatients and those patients under investigation (PUI) are noted below: 

Discharges: 643 total COVID-19 discharges to date, 1 in the last 24 hours. These numbers include patients discharged to skilled nursing facilities but excludes deaths and discharges to hospice.

TEAM MEMBER COVID-19 TESTING STATS*

* Data from 3/10 through 7/21. The testing stats reflect just Michigan Medicine employees, not all University of Michigan employees. It also reflects only those who sought testing at or were hospitalized at Michigan Medicine or reported their testing to Occupational Health Services. Some Michigan Medicine employees may have been tested outside our system.

FAQs: FACE COVERING REQUIREMENTS AT MICHIGAN MEDICINE

The recent release of the new U-M Face Covering Policy for COVID-19 has resulted in many questions about how the policy will impact Michigan Medicine employees, as well as patients and visitors. The attached FAQ has been created to answer some of those questions.

The FAQs are also posted on the Michigan Medicine Headlines COVID-19 information page and will be updated to reflect future changes to state, university and institutional face covering requirements.

VIDEO OF JULY 17 TOWN HALL
On Friday, July 17, Michigan Medicine leaders hosted a virtual Town Hall event to provide the latest information on the Economic Recovery Plan, plans to address a potential second wave of COVID-19 in Southeast Michigan, the status of the research ramp-up and reinstituting clinical trials, and updates on the medical school LCME accreditation process and resident/student onboarding.

If you were unable to attend, you can view the Town Hall video here.

Still have questions?

We are also posting all daily bulletins and policies on Michigan Medicine Headlines at https://mmheadlines.org/covid-19-updates/. Please bookmark that site and refer to it throughout the day for the most up-to-date information.

If you still can’t find what you’re looking for on these web pages, please email coronavirus-info@med.umich.edu and your question will be answered as quickly as possible. Do not use this email for sharing patient health information.