Dr. Amy Person is a licensed and board-certified pediatrician with advanced training in public health informatics and population health. She graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine and completed her residency at Medical College of Wisconsin. She has spent her career in pediatrics until relocating to the Tri-Cities, where she became the Benton-Franklin Health District Officer in 2011. Amy is also the President of the Washington State Public Health Association.
http://www.509recovery.org/team/
PAST-PRESIDENT
"Dr. Amy Person has been the Health Officer for the Benton-Franklin Health District since 2011. Prior to joining BFHD, she was a primary care pediatrician in Milwaukee, WI for 18 years, working with teen mothers and inner city families. Recognizing the impact of health disparities on the lives of her own patients, she pursued a career in public health to better address prevention and the social determinants of health at the population level"
https://www.wspha.org/board-of-directors
Bentonville-Franklin Health District
https://www.bfhd.wa.gov/?id=21086&catid=0
COVID-19 Information
The following information regarding COVID-19 is being provided as a resource for Hospitals, Skilled Nursing Facilities and Family Members as to the role of the Benton County Coroner’s Office in a COVID-19 related death.
Hospitals:
· Known COVID-19 Deaths do not need to be reported to the Coroner
· COVID-19 Deaths should be reported to the Benton-Franklin Health District
· The Benton County Coroner’s Office will not perform autopsies on COVID-19 Deaths, OSHA and others have recommended that autopsies not be performed in COVID-19 Deaths. Cases with extenuating circumstances will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
· The Washington State Department of Health has issued guidelines for completing death certificates in these deaths
· Report other cases, as usual, to the coroner’s office such as drug overdoses, motor vehicle collision deaths, and suicides, etc.
Family Members:
· OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) recommends that autopsies not be performed on people who are known to have died from COVID-19, such as people who die in the hospital and have a positive COVID-19 test
· The coroner’s office does not perform COVID-19 testing on all deceased persons, but will review each death on a case-by-case basis to determine the necessity of a COVID-19 test.
· The coroner’s office is screening each death reported to us by obtaining information about their symptoms before death: (travel, fever, coughing, shortness of breath and other flu-like symptoms)
· Coroner investigators investigate natural deaths that occur in private residences. If a person dies at home and has symptoms typical of COVID-19, testing for Coronavirus may be performed, at the discretion of the Benton County Coroner's Office on a case-by-case basis.
· The coroner’s office is primarily involved with deaths that are suicides, homicides, or accidents. Natural deaths, such as COVID-19 deaths, that occur in a medical facility or skilled nursing facility, ordinarily are not under Coroner’s jurisdiction
Nursing Homes:
· Do not report all your deaths to the Coroner during the pandemic
· In patients who are known to have COVID-19 because of a positive test, the death does not need to be reported to the Coroner’s Office, however all such deaths (positive for COVID-19) are to be reported to the Benton-Franklin Health District
· It is presumed that since Nursing Home patients have a physician of record, that physician will sign the death certificate
· During the COVID-19 pandemic, continue to report deaths to the Coroner as per policy, reporting accidents, and other non-natural deaths
· For deaths that are suspected, but undiagnosed COVID-19 deaths, with typical symptoms, contact the Benton-Franklin Health District for guidance.
https://www.co.benton.wa.us/pview.aspx?id=21084&catid=0
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