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Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce
<br />HEALTHCARE / PUBLIC HEALTH
<br />• Workers providing COVID-19 testing; Workers that perform critical clinical research needed for COVID-19
<br />response
<br />• Caregivers (e.g., physicians, dentists, psychologists, mid -level practitioners, nurses and assistants, infection
<br />control and quality assurance personnel, pharmacists, physical and occupational therapists and assistants,
<br />social workers, speech pathologists and diagnostic and therapeutic technicians and technologists)
<br />• Hospital and laboratory personnel (including accounting, administrative, admitting and discharge, engineering,
<br />epidemiological, source plasma and blood donation, food service, housekeeping, medical records, information
<br />technology and operational technology, nutritionists, sanitarians, respiratory therapists, etc.)
<br />• Workers in other medical facilities (including Ambulatory Health and Surgical, Blood Banks, Clinics, Community
<br />Mental Health, Comprehensive Outpatient rehabilitation, End Stage Renal Disease, Health Departments, Home
<br />Health care, Hospices, Hospitals, Long Term Care, Organ Pharmacies, Procurement Organizations, Psychiatric
<br />Residential, Rural Health Clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers)
<br />• Manufacturers, technicians, logistics and warehouse operators, and distributors of medical equipment,
<br />personal protective equipment (PPE), medical gases, pharmaceuticals (including materials used in
<br />radioactive drugs), blood and blood products, vaccines, testing materials, laboratory supplies, cleaning,
<br />sanitizing, disinfecting or sterilization supplies, and tissue and paper towel products
<br />• Public health / community health workers, including those who compile, model, analyze and communicate
<br />public health information
<br />• Blood and plasma donors and the employees of the organizations that operate and manage related activities
<br />• Workers that manage health plans, billing, and health information, who cannot practically work remotely
<br />• Workers who conduct community -based public health functions, conducting epidemiologic surveillance,
<br />compiling, analyzing and communicating public health information, who cannot practically work remotely
<br />• Workers performing cybersecurity functions at healthcare and public health facilities, who cannot practically
<br />work remotely
<br />• Workers conducting research critical to COVID-19 response
<br />• Workers performing security, incident management, and emergency operations functions at or on behalf of
<br />healthcare entities including healthcare coalitions, who cannot practically work remotely
<br />• Workers who support food, shelter, and social services, and other necessities of life for economically
<br />disadvantaged or otherwise needy individuals, such as those residing inshelters
<br />• Pharmacy employees necessary for filling prescriptions
<br />• Workers performing mortuary services, including funeral homes, crematoriums, and cemetery workers
<br />• Workers who coordinate with other organizations to ensure the proper recovery, handling, identification,
<br />transportation, tracking, storage, and disposal of human remains and personal effects; certify cause of death;
<br />and facilitate access to mental/behavioral health services to the family members, responders, and survivors of
<br />an incident
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