California – California Department of Public Health
CDPH Landing Page
California Department of Public Health Landing Page for Guidance Documents re COVID-19
AFL 21-15: Request for 30-day Sustainment Supply of the State’s PPE Inventory (5/13/21)
SNFs: PPE Push Packs
AFL 21-13: PPE Push Pack Distribution (4/30/21)
Visitor Limitations
AFL 20-38.6: Visitor Limitation Guidance (3/16/21)
CDPH Survey Priorities
AFL 20-69.1: Survey Priorities during the COVID-19 Pandemic (3/1/21)
PCCs & MHCUs: Suspension of Enforcement
AFL 20-30.1: Suspension of Regulatory Enforcement of Specified Primary Care Clinic and Mobile Health Care Unit Requirements (2/26/21)
Hospitals: Additional Temporary Licensing Waivers
AFL 21-09: Additional Temporary Waivers Tied to the Hospital Surge Public Health Order (2/1/21)
COVID-19 Testing Guidance (Updated 9/22/20)
SNFs: Online Application for Surveys and Investigations
AFL 20-63.1: Deployment of Online Survey Application for COVID-19 SNF Mitigation Surveys (8/7/20)
ICFs: Daily Reporting
AFL 20-62: ICF COVID-19 Daily Reporting (7/25/20)
SNFs: Temporary Managers
AFL-20-56: Request for Interest in Serving as a Temporary Manager (6/12/20)
Hospitals: Vaccination Planning Survey
AFL 20-81: GACH COVID-19 Vaccination Survey (10/12/20)
SNFs: Baseline Testing Reporting
AFL 20-55: SNF COVID-19 Baseline Testing Reporting (6/2/20)
COVID-19 Symptoms
AFL 20-51: Updated COVID-19 Symptoms, 5/9/20
SNF Weekly Infection Prevention Calls
AFL 20-50: Skilled Nursing Facility Infection Prevention Calls (4/30/20)
CDPH Guidance re Resuming California’s Deferred and Preventive Health Care (4/27/20)
Clinical Laboratories
Letter to Laboratories – Important information for laboratories about testing for COVID-19 (4/24/20)
Medi-Cal Program Flexibilities
All Plan Letter 20-011 re Governor’s Executive Order N-55-20 (4/24/20)
Home Health Aide Certification
AFL 20-49: Suspension of Professional Certification Requirements for Home Health Aides (4/24/20)
Transfers to Alternate Care Sites
AFL 20-48: Transfers to Low Acuity Alternate Care Sites During COVID-19 Pandemic (4/24/20)
Hospice: Licensing Requirements
AFL 20-47: Suspension of Regulatory Enforcement of Hospice Requirements (4/23/20)
Facility and Alternate Care Site Staffing
AFL 20-46: Requests for Urgent Staffing Resources for COVID-19 (4/21/20)
Crisis Care Guidelines
California SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Health Care Surge Crisis Care Guidelines (4/19/20)
Access to Testing
AFL 20-44: Expanding Access to Testing: Updated Interim Guidance on Prioritization for COVID-19 Laboratory Testing (4/19/20)
SNFs: Daily Reporting
AFL 20-43: SNF COVID-19 Daily Reporting (4/19/20)
Infection Control (Health Care Workers)
AFL 20-45: Hotels for Healthcare Workers
Strategic National Stockpile
AFL 20-41: Prohibition on charging for federally supplied assets or pharmaceuticals from the Strategic National Stockpile
Nurse Assistant Training Programs
AFL 20-40: Suspension of Specified Regulatory Requirements for Nurse Assistant Training Programs (NATPs) (4/14/20)
Personal Protective Equipment
AFL 20-39: COVID-19 Optimizing the Use of Personal Protective Equipment (4/14/20)
N95 Respirator Reuse
AFL 20-36: Guidance for Decontamination and Reuse of N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators (4/11/20)
ASC Ventilator Inventory
AFL 20-37: ASC Ventilator Inventory Survey (4/8/20)
Alternate Care Site FAQs (4/6/20)
CNA Certification
AFL 20-35: Suspension of Professional Certification Requirements for CNAs (4/5/20)
SNFs: Resident Transfer
AFL 20-33 Interim Guidance for Transfer of Residents with Suspected or Confirmed Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) (4/1/20)
Hospital Bed Reporting
AFL 20-31: COVID-19 Daily Reporting (3/28/20)
SNFs: Staffing Waiver Deadline
AFL 20-28. Announcement: Expansion of the Deadline to Apply for Patient Needs and Workforce Shortage Waivers (3/23/20)
ADHCs
AFL 20-27.1 Guidance for Limiting the Transmission of COVID-19 in Adult Day Health Centers (3/23/20)
