Category | Measures | Month initiated |
Emergency response coordination | Activation of the Hopi Emergency Response Team | March |
Establishment of Hopi Incident Management Authority | August | |
Community mitigation and infection prevention and control (IPC) | Standardised entry symptom screening for staff and patients at Hopi Health Care Center | May |
IPC training with the National Guard, for health facility and tribal government staff | May | |
COVID-19 mitigation guidelines for ceremonies and burials | June | |
Development of and training on COVID-19 readiness checklists for safe reopening of businesses, schools and other facilities | May | |
Referrals of ambulatory patients with COVID-19 to an outside isolation facility | June | |
Development of COVID-19 cleaning and disinfection protocols for facilities reporting a case of COVID-19 | June | |
Epidemiology and Surveillance | Daily reporting of case information from Hopi Health Care Center to Hopi Tribe | March |
Public reporting of COVID-19 case numbers | May | |
Weekly surveillance reporting from health facilities to Hopi Tribe | July | |
Communications | COVID-19 Hotline | March |
Toolkits for village leaders | March | |
COVID-19 radio show (Hopi Health Care Center) | March | |
Enhanced multimedia communications: radio, Facebook and print | March (intensified in May) | |
Public health town halls | April and August | |
Communications plan and strategy developed | May–June | |
Community outreach programme (CHAC) | June |
CHAC, Community Outreach, Health Education, Assessment for COVID-19, Connection to Testing and Care.