Reference: Administrative Order (AO) No. 2022-0001 (Guidelines for COVID-19 Risk Exposure Classification of Health care Workers)
- Do we need to include in the Risk Classification Report our LGU-hired contact tracer and those hired under Contract of Service/Job Order transporting COVID patients to Temporary Treatment and Monitoring Facility and Hospitals?
- Do we need to include in the Risk Classification Report our outsourced services personnel?
- How about Commission on Audit (COA) personnel assigned in health facilities involved in COVID-19 response? Do we need to include them in the risk exposure classification report?
- How about employees of partner agencies assigned in the Malasakit Program Office such as DSWD and PCSO? Do we need to include them in the risk exposure classification report?
- How can we risk classify those who are in Work-from-Home arrangement?
- How can we risk classify those who are in leave of absence, trainings and scholarship grant?
- How can we risk classify those who are in quarantine/isolation and/or treatment due to COVID-19?
- How do we categorize employees who are assigned to multiple areas in the hospital with different risk classifications?
- How do we classify Drug Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation Centers (DATRCs) with regard to Type of Health Facility?
- How do we classify infirmaries with regard to Type of Health Facility?
- How do we classify the free standing laboratory or free standing dialysis clinics with regard to Type of Health Facility?
- How will points be given in the Nature of Work Criteria?
- How will points be given in the Type of Health Facility Criteria?
- How will points be given in the Work Setting Criteria?
- If the Development Management Officers are assigned in field (e.g. Rural Health Unit, District Hospital) what will be the basis with regard to Type of Facility?
- Is it the employee who will be the one to determine his/her own risk exposure classification?
- Our vaccinators are hired by CHD but their main station is at the Rural Health Unit and vaccination area, in determining risk classification per Type of Facility, what shall be considered, CHD or the primary station where they are deployed?
- Should we include Barangay TANODs in BHERTS in the risk exposure classification report since they are also utilized in COVID-19 response?
- There are Human Resource for Health (HRH) Augmentation staff engaged through COS with the CHD but assigned in a hospital for their work assignment. Whose report shall their names be included, CHD or the hospital where they are assigned?
- There are moonlight resident doctors specially in private institutions who do not have parent institutions but reporting in different hospitals. Where shall their names be included in the report?
- What about HCWs assigned/detailed in other health facilities. Which health facility shall identify their risk classification and include them in their submission?
- What are the three (3) risk categories?
- What is "Risk Exposure Classification"?
- What is "clinical area"?
- What is direct care?
- What is the frequency of submission of report?
- What is the risk classification of personnel from DOH Central Office (CO) and Centers for Health Development (CHDs)?
- What is this POINT SYSTEM for CREC?
- What risk exposure classification shall prevail when the area of assignment and/or job description change?
- What will happen if we do not submit CREC on our scheduled date? Will our HEA be forfeited?
- When does the risk exposure classification of HCWs change?
- When is the deadline of submission and do we have a form/template for this risk exposure classification report?
- Where do we base the CREC of HCWs?
- Where shall the health facilities submit their Report on Risk Exposure Classification?
- Who are the HCWs that will be risk classified?
- Who can we contact for questions regarding the risk exposure classification?
- Who shall classify the CREC of the HCWs in the facility?
- Why there is a need to determine the COVID-19 Risk Exposure Classification (CREC) of HCWs?
- With regard to type of health facility, how do we classify the risk exposure classification of an employee who is reporting to an office within the hospital but not an employee of the said hospital (e.g CHD, PHO/PDOHO within the hospital)?