LAS VEGAS, NV (KXNT) - The Cashman Isolation-Quarantine Complex currently being assembled is looking to hire staff this week for temporary positions at the new facility. Qualified medical staff, health care para-professionals, and support personnel are needed for the 24-hour-care facility.
Nursing staff; allied health professionals; case workers, housekeeping, food distribution and custodial staff; and facility monitors are all encouraged to apply for these temporary positions.
The Cashman ISO-Q will serve as an acute observation facility dedicated to serving people experiencing homelessness.
It is believed that the Cashman ISO-Q is the only one of its kind in the nation serving the homeless population. The current CDC guidance encourages people impacted by coronavirus to quarantine at home for up to 14 days or to self-isolate a minimum number of days past the onset of symptoms.
People experiencing homelessness are unable to isolate or quarantine safely because they lack adequate shelter. The ISO-Q provides a safe place with clinical observation to ensure patients’ symptoms do not escalate to the point of needing hospitalization unnoticed.
Patient care units include quarantine for persons exposed to coronavirus; isolation for persons experiencing symptoms; and, isolation for patients with confirmed positive cases of coronavirus. Measures are in place to prevent cross-contamination between patient care groups. A medical director is assigned to oversee clinical care. In addition to clinical medical staff, the ISO-Q will be staffed with teams dedicated to sanitation and infectious disease control, patient care and feeding, supplies and operations, data collection and discharge planning.