ALERT: Amended COVID Administrative Order on Masking and Physician Practice Operations

The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs issued a new administrative order (AO) on masking and other physician-office operations. Since 2020 and subsequent updates in May 2021, under an earlier AO physicians’ offices in New Jersey have been required to take certain precautions related to COVID-19. Masking, physical distancing, screening patients and staff, cleaning, plastic barriers between staff workstations, and removing magazines from waiting rooms – to name a few. While many precautions, such as screening patients and staff for COVID symptoms, remain standard practice, others source control recommendations are inconsistent with the current understanding of virus transmission and infection risk. The new AO therefore removes many of these requirements and instead defers to outside agencies and requires health care settings to “practice in a manner consistent with the COVID guidance from the CDC, OSHA, NJ Department of Health and local health authorities.

For more detail on how these requirements may apply to your practice, click here. Any questions please contact Claudine Leone at claudine@njgac.com.

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MAKING CARE PRIMARY IN NEW JERSEY

The mission of the NJAFP is to advance the specialty of Family Medicine through education and advocacy for the benefit of the public at large and our membership. NJAFP will transform the primary care practice environment such that family medicine is the specialty of choice in New Jersey, ensuring an adequate supply of family physicians to care for the citizens of our state.

About NJAFP

With nearly 2000 members, the NJAFP is the largest primary care medical society in the state and a chapter of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

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NJAFP's Healthcare Transformation Team are experts in quality improvement science, including experienced field staff with practice-based backgrounds.

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NJAFP offers a wide variety of CME, and has received its accreditation with commendation as a provider of CME by the ACCME. Browse our course catalog and services.

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Adity Bhattacharyya, MD, FAAFP

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