The Miami University Employee Health Center is ready to conduct biometric screenings with enhanced safety measures during COVID-19. There have been adjustments made to the screening process to adhere to best-practice concepts related to COVID-19 in order to ensure the safety of Miami Employees. Please review the changes, listed below, to our biometric screening process moving forward.

• All Miami Employees will wear a mask/face covering throughout the entire biometric screening.
  • Mask/face covering must be clean.
  • The Health Center will supply masks for employees that do not have masks.
• Biometrics will be drawn out of the Health Center Lab. The waiting area seats will be at least six feet apart.
• Employees will pass through a temperature check station with an infrared thermometer and ensured employees have mask/face covering before entering the registration area.
• Employees will register and be directed to the Lab waiting area.
  • Participants will be asked the following questions at the time of registration and again at the time of their appointment. If a participants answers “Yes” to any of the below questions, they will not be permitted to have a biometric screening done at that time:
  • Within the past seven days, have you had any of these symptoms:
    • Fever >100.4
    • Cough
    • Shortness of breath
    • Chills
    • Unexplained muscle pain
    • Sore throat
    • New loss of taste or smell
  • Within the last 14 days, have you traveled internationally?
  • Within the last 14 days, have you had unprotected contact (without a mask with a person with confirmed or suspected Coronavirus, or have you tested positive?
• Participants will be paired with one TriHealth staff member who will conduct all biometric screening components:   blood pressure and biometric blood draw.
  • Each biometric screening appointment should last approximately 15 minutes.
  • If there are multiple screeners, appointment start times will be staggered in order to reduce the amount of people gathering at the registration station at one time.
    • No walk in appointments will be allowed. All appointments should be scheduled ahead of time.
    • Participants must show up at the time of their screening in order to be seen/ensure physical distancing.
  • Each screening station will be equipped with hand sanitizer and cavi wipes.
  • The entire screening station including all instruments used during the biometric screening will be disinfected between employees.
• Employees will exit out of the clinic through the north doors to prevent contact with incoming employees and to ensure strict social distancing.