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Martin Methodist’s Response to COVID-19

The college administration is monitoring daily the status of the Coronavirus COVID-19.

Martin Methodist COVID-19 Case Count Update

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COVID-19 Vaccines on Campus

We offer the COVID-19 vaccine at our campus clinic. Call #3338 or 931.424.7338 or Email: mmclinic@martinmethodist.edu to make an appointment. Questions about the COVID-19 vaccine? We have answers. Visit OurShotforGiles.com and email us to talk to a certified nurse practitioner.

Martin Methodist COVID-19 Notifications
Daily Screenings and Mask Coverings

Daily Screenings

Symptom self-monitoring will be an expectation of all community members. Members of the campus community will be expected to monitor themselves for symptoms of COVID-19 daily. The College will use the MMC Application to monitor the daily screenings. The screening will occur at administrative building entrances, academic offices, and classrooms. Visitors will check-in at the Library.

  • Employees, Students, and Visitors will be screened daily with the following questions using the MMC Application: Scan the QR code with your MMC App. if you can answer NO to these questions:
  1. Are you currently diagnosed or suspected of having COVID-19?
  2. Have you had a fever above 100.4 in the last 48 hours?
  3. Have you been in close contact with a confirmed case of COVID-19 in the past 14 days?
  4. Are you experiencing a cough, shortness of breath, chills, sore throat, muscle pain, or headache?
  5. Have you had a new loss of taste or smell?
  6. Have you had vomiting or diarrhea in the last 24 hours?

    Anyone refusing to daily screen or failing to meet any screening standard is not permitted to enter any campus facilities (Main Campus, East Campus, or Maker Lab).
    • Faculty, staff, & students must fill out a COVID-19 Self-Isolation Form and contact a COVID-19 Coordinator
    • Employees should contact their area Vice President and supervisor.
    • Students should also contact the Clinic, their instructors (or Provost), and coaches and athletic trainers if applicable.
    • Visitors should reschedule visits after 14 days.
      (see “if you are sick”)

Random Temperature Screening will occur at all buildings. Screenings will be conducted by security and nursing students.

Face Masks

Face masks or coverings (e.g., disposable masks or cloth face coverings) must be worn over your nose and mouth by all staff, faculty, and students on campus when in the presence of others and in public settings (e.g. common workspaces, public spaces, hallways, stairwells, elevators, meeting rooms, classrooms, break-rooms, and restrooms, etc.) and outside when you can’t social distance (6ft of separation).

  • Disposable masks will be provided in all facilities. Disposable masks may only be worn for 24 hours.
  • Exceptions to wearing a face covering:
    • When you are alone (e.g. residential room, office, or outside),
    • When you are eating and drinking,
    • When you are maintaining a social distance of six feet or more from others outside, or
    • When an instructor is behind a plexiglass barrier in class, the instructor is not required to wear a mask.
  • Remember:
    • Cloth face masks/coverings are not a substitute for social distancing.
    • You can spread COVID-19 even if you do not feel sick.
  • For more information see: CDC: Cloth Face Coverings
  • Accommodations will be made for those unable to wear a face-covering for medical reasons.
  • An individual room in a residence hall or apartment will be considered as a private residence under the masking directive, and the students living in that room/ apartment/house will be considered part of a “family group.

Printable Daily Screenings and Masks

If You Think You Are Sick

If You Have Symptoms

All MMC Community members who have a confirmed case of COVID-19, have COVID-19 symptoms, or have been in contact with someone with COVID-191 must fill out a COVID 19 Self-Isolation Form and contact one of the COVID-19 Coordinator as soon as possible.

Co-Coordinators:

Daniel McMasters, Vice President of Student Affairs
dmcmasters@martinmethodist.edu
Work: 931-424-7334 Cell: 931-242-7713

Jamie Hlubb, Assistant Vice President of Human Resources
jhlubb@martinmethodist.edu
Work: 931-424-7379


Confirmed Case of COVID-19:

Faculty, Staff, and Students who are confirmed to have COVID-19 will be required to isolate:

  • Employees: Isolate and care for themselves at home. Employees must notify a COVID-19
  • Coordinator as soon as they are notified of their positive test results.
  • Students living off-campus: Isolate and care for themselves at home.
  • Residential Students: Go home to isolate if they live within a day’s (10 hrs.) drive to campus by car and are well enough to make the drive.
    • Students unable to isolate at home will isolate in designated on or off-campus Isolation location. Isolation will include
  • Telecare from the Clinic/Staff (twice-daily),
  • Daily food delivery of meal, beverages, snacks, etc.,
  • Internet Services,
  • Tele-counseling and Spiritual Support,
  • PPE, Sanitizer, thermometer, Kleenex, and
  • Custodial Support (garbage pick-up).
  • All Students: Notify a COVID-19 Coordinator as soon as they are notified of their positive test results. Students should also notify the MMC Clinic, Instructors, Coaches, Athletic trainers, etc.

Duration of Isolation:

  • Symptomatic: You should strictly isolate yourself at home for at least 10 days after you became ill, and you should be feeling well (improved cough, shortness of breath) and without fever (without the use of fever reducing drugs) for at least 24 hours in a row before resuming normal activities.
  • Asymptomatic: You should strictly isolate yourself at home for at least 10 days. Once the 10 days have passed since the test, assuming the student/employee has no subsequently developed symptoms since their positive test, isolation may be discontinued.

COVID-19 Symptoms:

Faculty, Staff, and Students with COVID-19 symptoms will be required to immediately self-isolate and monitor their symptoms. Faculty, Staff, and Students should consider obtaining a medical evaluation.

  • Employees: Self-isolate and care for themselves at home. Employees will contact a COVID-19 Coordinator immediately, and work with their area Vice President to determine work schedule during your illness. Supervisors will help employees understand paid leave options.
  • Students living off-campus: Self-isolate and care for themselves at home.
  • Residential Students: Self-isolate in MMC Quarantine/Isolation rooms. These students will receive:
    • Telecare from the Clinic/Staff (twice-daily),
    • Daily food delivery of meal, beverages, snacks, etc.,
    • Internet Services,
    • Tele-counseling and Spiritual Support,
    • PPE, Sanitizer, thermometer, Kleenex, and
    • Custodial Support (garbage pick-up).
  • All ill students: Notify a COVID-19 Coordinator immediately. Student should also notify the MMC Clinic, Instructors, Coaches, Athletic trainers, etc.

Please follow healthcare provider instructions for illness management. If you test positive for COVID-19, please Isolate immediately and follow the guidelines.

Duration of Isolation:

You should strictly self-isolate yourself at home for at least 10 days after you became ill, and you should be feeling well (improved cough, shortness of breath) and without fever (without the use of fever reducing drugs) for at least 24 hours in a row before resuming normal activities.

Known Exposure to COVID-19:

Faculty, Staff, and Students with known exposure to COIVID-19 will be required to immediately quarantine until 14 days after the last contact with the individual.

How Do I Know if I Have Been Exposed?

You generally need to be in close contact with a sick person to get infected. Close contact includes:

  • Living in the same household as a person with COVID-19,
  • Caring for a person with COVID-19,
  • Being within 6 feet of a person with COVID-19 for 10 minutes or longer, anytime from 48 hours prior to the onset of their symptoms or date of their positive test if they are asymptomatic, or
  • Being in direct contact with secretions from a person with COVID-19 (e.g., being coughed on, kissing, sharing utensils, etc.)

What Should I Do If I Have Been Exposed?

  • Employees: Quarantine and care for themselves at home. Employees will contact a COVID-19 Coordinator as soon as they are notified of exposure.
  • Employees will work with their area Vice President to determine the work schedule during the quarantine. Supervisors will help employees understand paid leave options.
  • Students living off-campus: Quarantine and care for themselves at home.
  • Residential Students: Quarantine in MMC Quarantine/Isolation rooms. These students will receive:
    • Telecare from the Clinic/Staff (twice-daily),
    • Daily food delivery of meal, beverages, snacks, etc.,
    • Internet Services,
    • Tele-counseling and Spiritual Support,
    • PPE, Sanitizer, thermometer, Kleenex, or
    • Custodial Support (garbage pick-up).
  • All students: Notify a COVID-19 Coordinator as soon as they are notified of exposure.
  • The student should also notify the Martin Methodist Clinic, Instructors, Coaches, Athletic trainers, etc.

Duration of Quarantine:

Faculty, Staff, and Students may discontinue quarantine if they remain symptom free for the entirety of the 14 days after the last contact with the individual.

While in Quarantine:

Monitor your symptoms. If you become symptomatic, you will immediately begin isolation at your home or campus provided isolation room and remain in isolation for 10 days from the on set of your symptoms PLUS be symptom-free for at least three days.

Printable if You Think You Are Sick

What You Can Do

STAY HEALTHY:

  • We ask that all members of our community take steps to ensure that we all stay as healthy as possible, including:
  • Avoid close contact with people who are sick.
  • Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.
  • Avoid sharing dishes, glasses and utensils.
  • Wash your hands often and thoroughly with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. Especially before eating or preparing food, after going to the bathroom and after you are around someone sick.
  • Use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol if soap & water are not available.

OTHER RESOURCES:

QUESTIONS:

For questions, please contact Daniel McMasters, Vice President for Student Affairs, at dmcmasters@martinmethodist.edu.

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