Yasith Weerasuriya, President of Stanbridge University, said
their students got back into their clinical settings starting May 1, thanks to
exemptions in the California Governor’s mandate that allowed essential
healthcare workforce training institutions to continue unaffected by the
stay-at-home mandate.
“We certainly followed all the best practices in social
distancing, masks use and all the other additional protocols to make sure
everyone was safe,” Weerasuriya said.
But Stanbridge University also did much more.
Weerasuriya said they were concerned that if they were
asking people to self-screen at the entryways to the buildings, an individual
may potentially already be symptomatic.
“So we developed an app that would allow all of our
community to self-screen at home before they got into the car,” he furthered.
“It was a major task for our in-house software development team to do this.”
“The Campus Screen app, which is available for free download
at the Apple and Google stores, allows people to present a visual pass which is
good for up to 8 hours to on-campus screeners,” explained Stanbridge’s
president.
Students, faculty, and staff hold up their phone and show
the green day pass to the monitors located at each building entrance. And for
those individuals screening at home with a yellow or red pass, it is a visual
alert for them to seek additional medical attention. The Campus Screen app is
available at no cost for any school to download and is currently being used by
universities such as the University of Missouri-St. Louis and the University of
Missouri-Kansas City.
Everything that the app recommends follows the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.
The main advantage of the app is that it made entry into
buildings easier and quicker since students, faculty and staff just had to show
the green pass instead of answering questions or filling a questionnaire.
In addition to the app, Stanbridge University implemented
walk-through, touchless thermal scanners at each entrance after the app
screening is shown and partnered with Curative to offer free, drive through
testing.
0 comments:
Post a Comment