Safe Places, Trusted Care
TMC has a long-standing commitment to the health care needs of our communities. Your safety is our highest priority. During this global COVID-19 pandemic, our commitment to giving you a safe, reliable place to receive care is even more important to us.
Reopening Our Clinics and Services
During the height of the pandemic in Chennai, our clinic was scaled back in-person appointments. Thanks to the efforts of Chennai residents to stay home, effectively controlling the spread of the virus, we are able to begin offering broader services to meet the needs of our communities, starting with patients whose care needs are most urgent.
How We’re Keeping Patients Safe During the COVID-19 Recovery
Guided by our internationally respected infection prevention experts and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), we have taken a number of steps in addition to our standard rigorous infection control measures to ensure our facilities remain safe places for you to confidently receive care.
In-Person Appointments and Procedures
For some of our patients, safety means being seen in-person or scheduled for a procedure as quickly as possible. Our commitment to you is to provide the care you need, when you need it, as safely and conveniently as possible. Each patient’s individual circumstances will be evaluated by their provider to determine how soon that patient should return for in-person care or a scheduled procedure, or if their care needs could be handled through E-Visits or Video Visits.
Restricting Visitors
Our temporary visitor policy restricts visitors to reduce the number of people in our facilities and, therefore, the risk of exposure between patients, visitors and staff. We understand this can be difficult and appreciate your understanding.
Masks and Hand Sanitizer
Masks for Staff: All staff wear masks. The type of mask staff members wear is determined by the type of care they provide, to best ensure their safety and the safety of our patients.
Masks for Patients and Visitors: All patients and anyone with them will be asked to wear a mask or cloth face covering while in our health care facilities. You may bring your own, or if you don’t have one, face masks are available at each entrance.
Hand Sanitizer: Hand sanitizer is available at each entrance and at numerous locations throughout each building. Everyone is asked to sanitize their hands when they enter the building. In addition, each member of our health care staff sanitizes their hands before and after each patient encounter.
Screening and Testing
Screening for COVID-19 Symptoms: We screen all patients and visitors for COVID-19 symptoms. You will be contacted by your clinic prior to an appointment to ask whether you are experiencing any symptoms. In addition, when you arrive for your appointment, you and anyone with you will also be asked about any cough, fever and other symptoms of respiratory virus infection that you or others in your household may be experiencing. Staff are also screened for COVID-19 symptoms each day.
COVID-19 Testing: We test all patients admitted to our hospitals for COVID-19, as well as any patient scheduled for surgery, regardless of whether or not they have symptoms. Patients are admitted to designated units based on their test results.
Cleaning, Reorganization and Check-In Options
Common Areas: Areas such as waiting rooms, lobbies and restrooms are cleaned often with special attention to frequently touched surfaces including doorknobs, armrests and handrails.
Exam Rooms: These are fully cleaned and disinfected between each patient.
Waiting Room Organization: Waiting rooms are organized to keep patients with respiratory symptoms separate from patients receiving other types of care. Special arrangements are made for patients being evaluated for COVID-19 or possible COVID-19 to arrive through a specific process and be immediately settled into a private exam room to reduce the chances of other patients being exposed to the virus.
Every Patient Safety Decision Guided by Experts
You can be confident that you will receive safe, high-quality, compassionate care from the extraordinary health care teams at any of our hospitals and health centers.
TMC has been recognized year after year for overall patient safety and the highest quality standards.
Our safety precautions are guided by experts in the field of infectious diseases, infection prevention, public health and quality improvement.
In many cases, the people designing ways to keep you safe in our hospitals and health centers are the same people advising state and national efforts to keep our country safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our faculty and staff are leading a number of innovative research projects on COVID-19 treatment and recovery.
Every member of our teams are committed to keeping our patients, staff and community safe.
