COVID-19

Important Contacts:

Your Local Health Department   ---   Your Local Emergency Management Agency

Medical Board Updates for Licensees

• 4/6/20 - DEA decision tree for prescribing during the pandemic

  • Updated COVID-19 testing guidance (ODH testing message, testing form, ODH lab)

  • Updated PPE guidance (ODH PPE message, PPE strategies, PPE use & reuse)

• 4/1/20 - Ventilator Inventory, Death Certificate Reporting & Surge Survey

• 3/31/20 - Guidance for reporting COVID-19 on Ohio death certificates

  • CDC health alert: severe illness associated with using non-pharmaceutical chloroquine phosphate

  • DEA guidance on Oral CII prescriptions

  • DEA registration of emergency temporary sites

• 3/30/20 - Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost Issues Statement on Prescribing Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine

• 3/26/20 - YOUR ideas for conservation of PPE

• 3/26/20 - UPDATED State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy rule addressing chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine

• 3/22/20 - Stay at home order (including information on essential businesses & health care)

  • State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy rule addressing chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine

• 3/20/20 - Updated COVID-19 testing guidance and ODH Lab testing procedures

  • ​State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy Guidance & Waivers

• 3/20/20 - Director of Health order for Massage Therapists

• 3/18/20 - Telemedicine, continuing education & CE changes

  • Updated telemedicine guidance

  • Special Meeting of the State Medical Board of Ohio

• 3/17/20 - Elective surgeries

• 3/17/20 - PPE and testing locations

• 3/15/20 - Guidance for primary care and outpatient providers

• 3/14/20 - Updated guidance for resource management; updated director's journal entry

• 3/13/20 - Conservation of PPE guidance from ODH and OHA

• 3/13/20 - Guidance for Outpatient Providers 

• 3/11/20 - Statement on COVID-19 for Medical Board licensees 

• 3/11/20 - Practicing telemedicine in Ohio guidance

• 3/11/20 - Telemedicine FAQs and telemedicine rules

• 3/11/20 - Printable packet regarding the Medical Board's telemedicine regulations (PDF)

• 3/9/20 - CDC updated Evaluating and Reporting Persons Under Investigation (PUI) for COVID-19

• 3/5/20 - CDC updated Interim US Guidance for Risk Assessment and Public Health Management of Persons with Potential COVID-19 Exposures: Geographic Risk and Contacts of Laboratory-confirmed Cases

• 3/4/20 - CDC updated Interim US Guidance for Risk Assessment and Public Health Management of Healthcare Personnel with Potential Exposure in a Healthcare Setting to Patients with COVID-19

• 2/28/20 - Coronavirus update from the Ohio Department of Health

• 1/29/20 - Health care providers reporting requirement notice

Trusted resources

• State of Ohio's COVID-19 website

• Ohio Department of Health's COVID-19 call center

  • open 7 days a week from 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

  • 1-833-4-ASK-ODH (1-833-427-5634)

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's information for health care professionals

• World Health Organization's COVID-19 info

• DEAs COVID-19 information page

• Resources for children and pregnant women