COVID Policies & procedures
At Chicago Veneers our top priority is keeping our patients safe and healthy. Below are new policies and procedures that we have implemented for both staff and patients:
- Taking staff temperature every day and strict sick leave policy
- Prescreen patients for symptoms with questionnaire
- Asking patient to not arrive early so we can control traffic/allow for distancing between patients
- Ask patients to wear a mask to the office, if they do not have one we can provide one
- Avoid bringing any unnecessary companions
- Reconfirm answers to questionnaire when patient arrives
- Taking temperatures when patient arrives
- Asking patient to observe hand hygiene upon arrival
- Using a pre-procedural mouth rinse to reduce aerosolized microbes
- Reducing aerosol production with procedure modifications and high volume suction use
- Premium air filters in every room that filter out particles .001 microns in size
- Thorough disinfection of rooms between patients
- Disposable barriers on equipment
- Packaged sterilized instruments are opened in operatory during appointment
- Utilizing sneeze guards at our front desk
- Frequent disinfection of bathroom and reception areas
- We removed our self-service coffee bar and brochure displays
- Increased PPE including gowns, faceshields, high filtration masks
- Asking patients to notify us if they become symptomatic and have recently been in our office
- Following all state and local guidelines including asking patients to self-quarantine if they had recent travel to hotspot states