What We are Doing to Keep Our Patients, Staff, and Community Safe

• Mandatory Daily Screening and Temperature Checks - Every person who enters our facility goes through a daily screening and temperature check.
• Proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) - Each staff member on your care team has proper PPE to ensure the safety of our patients. We have an adequate supply of all necessary PPE required for any medical or surgical treatment.
• Extensive Training - Our physicians, nurses, and ancillary care team members have clinical training and experience in infectious disease prevention and follow strict protocols for maintaining a safe patient environment.
• Visitor Policy - In accordance to the CDC guidelines, patient visitation has been temporarily suspended until further notice. There are some specialty exceptions, like the allowance of one healthy support partner for delivering mothers.
• Infection Prevention Distancing - We have implemented physical distancing measures throughout the hospital and our physician offices.
• Cleaning and Maintenance - Centinela Hospital follows CDC protocols for cleaning and disinfecting all patient care and treatment areas. Rooms are thoroughly cleaned and disinfected between patients.
• Isolation of COVID-19 Patients - Positive COVID-19 patients are in specific isolation inpatient units or an Emergency Department triage tent and you will not come in contact with them. If you have a negative COVID-19 screening test you will not be placed in these units.
• On-site Testing - COVID-19 testing is available through the Centinela Hospital Emergency Department or Laboratory with a doctor's order.
• Masks/Face Coverings - Masks or face coverings are an LA County requirement for daily use, an order which will not be lifted in the foreseeable future. In the hospital, masks must be properly worn at all times. All ED patients and hospital visitors must wear masks/face coverings during the course of the hospital stay.