4 Considerations for Choosing a Respirator Fit Test Provider
The spread of COVID-19 has intensified the demand for Respirator Fit Testing – an OSHA-mandated screening that ensures the proper fit and seal of a user’s N95 respirator, preventing virus transmission. With worker health and safety and OSHA compliance at stake, it is critical that employers choose a qualified Respirator Fit Test vendor. As a[Read the Rest]
Mobile Health Respirator Fit Test Site Simplifies OSHA Compliance
Mobile Health has launched RespiratorFitTest.com, a one-stop web site where businesses of any size can request OSHA-mandated Respirator Fit Tests (RFTs) to protect employees. Respirator Fit Tests ensure the proper fitting of workers’ N95s and other half-face masks, protecting them from airborne hazards, including COVID-19, and are mandated by OSHA Respiratory Protection Standards. Ignoring OSHA[Read the Rest]
Webinar: OSHA Respirator Fit Testing Requirements
If there’s one thing you need to know about working in healthcare, it’s this: OSHA can fine any business that does not properly respirator fit test every single employee who uses a respirator. Businesses are already strained by the pandemic. They don’t need another burden added to their already overfilled plate. You will learn: Which[Read the Rest]
Does Your N95 Respirator Mask Protect You from COVID-19?
While conducting 70,000+ Respirator Fit Tests during the pandemic, Mobile Health fit testers hear a single question more often than any other: Does my N95 respirator protect me from COVID-19? According to OSHA’s recent COVID-19 Respiratory Protection FAQ, the answer is YES, providing the N95 respirator is used correctly. OSHA ‘correct use’ requires N95s be part of an employer’s OSHA-compliant written Respiratory Protection Program – a combination of medical evaluations, training, and fit testing. When employers meet these requirements, workers’[Read the Rest]
Meet Chief Sales Officer James Anderson
Throughout his healthcare career, James Anderson has never hesitated to immerse himself in a new sector or service. As Regional Marketing Manager for a company providing home-based rehabilitation for the elderly, he became fluent in chronic conditions and disease process. In subsequent marketing roles, he absorbed all he could about senior care and hospice services.[Read the Rest]
COVID-19 Catalyst for GHX Fit Test Collaboration
A pandemic-driven need to protect vendor representatives who serve hospitals nationwide resulted in Global Health Exchange, LLC (GHX) and Mobile Health collaborating to simplify reps’ access to the OSHA-mandated Respirator Fit Test. Now, when vendor representatives log in to the GHX Vendormate credentialing system, they can directly schedule a Respirator Fit Test at any of[Read the Rest]
Unpacking FIT KIT: Out-of-the-Box Fit Testing
Mobile Health has always offered Respirator Fit Tests, either by clinic appointment or by going onsite to workplaces to fit-test large groups. However, heightened demand for fit tests during COVID-19 inspired a third fit test option: FIT KIT. Mobile Health provides each organization with supplies and live virtual or on-site training. Each kit is shipped to businesses within 72 hours to fit test workers themselves. [Read the Rest]
Mobile RFT Teams Deploy to Hard-Hit Hospitals
As the United States exceeds 3 million reported COVID-19 cases, surges in hospitalizations in hard-hit states continue to tax frontline workers. Currently, dozens of Florida hospital intensive care units (ICUs) are at or near capacity, while COVID-19 hospitalizations in Texas reached an all-time high of nearly 10,000 patients. Mobile Health will soon deploy mobile RFT[Read the Rest]
Readying Nursing Home Staff for N95 Respirators
Even as long-term care facilities resume normal activities, the CDC urges higher levels of personal protective equipment (PPE) for nursing home staff, including the wearing of N95 respirators or higher. The CDC issued PPE guidance for nursing home staff handling patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 cases. The virus has extracted a deadly toll on[Read the Rest]
Helping Vendors Adapt to Hospital Re-Entry Rules
As elective surgeries resume, vendors face stricter ambulatory surgery center (ASC) and hospital re-entry rules. More stringent rules affect medical device representatives present during certain aerosol-generating surgical procedures. Those reps should don fit-tested N95 respirators with face shields or surgical N95 respirators, according to Joint Re-Entry Guidance from the AHA, AORN and AdvaMed. New Safety[Read the Rest]
