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Screening of Staff Members
All staff members at Ocean Drive have been screened for COVID-19 using IgG/IgM serologic testing. Screening will continue on monthly intervals for the foreseeable future. In the unlikely scenario that a staff member becomes infected with COVID-19, they will be quarantined from Ocean Drive for 14 days, and sent for PCR based testing for viral shed. Regardless of viral status, they will not return to work until they are no longer are infectious based on further testing.
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Social Distancing
We fully intend to honor the federal recommendations on social distancing. We are going to approach this from a number of different angles. First, we are going to limit the number of double bookings to zero effective now. Also, all patients upon arrival for any reason will not be asked to wait in the waiting room. Instead, they will be immediately brought back to their treatment room in the OR, spa, or clinic area to wait there distanced from everyone else. Also, all providers, administrative, and support staff will be wearing personal protective equipment (surgical mask with 0.3 micron pore) if they are within six feet of you.
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Personal Protective Equipment
All providers and staff will be wearing masks if we are within 6 feet of you. Further, all visitors will be offered complimentary surgical masks at their visit, and they may take a total of three home with them for their family if they desire. Masks will be worn by staff members and providers during all treatments at Ocean Drive for the forseeable future to protect our clientele’. We will be wearing these masks to protect you, and while we request that you wear a mask as well, it is not required when you visit us.
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Enhanced Hand Washing/Personal Hygiene
At our core, Ocean Drive is a boutique, destination plastic surgery center, emphasis on surgery. Unlike many other offices, we are surgeons, and surgeons scrub. Scrubbing hands is different, and vastly more effective than washing your hands. Every member of the office has been trained not on how to wash your hands, but on how to scrub your hands prior to intervention. Essentially, we invested in our patient experience by amplifying and distributing surgical sterility protocols from our Operating Room to our spa, our clinic, and our administrative offices.
Also, patients undergoing laser, filler, ultrasound, or surgical procedures will be offered a complimentary hand sanitizer at checkout.

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Facility Cleanliness
After elevating our hand wash hygiene, we then invested in elevating the cleanliness or our office, and by increasing the availability of hand washing/sanitization stations. We have installed new hygenic equipment in literally every room of our center. Every room. Spa, massage, consult, postop, bathrooms, everywhere.
Each room will now undergo what is called a “terminal clean” after each patient encounter. This is the same type of cleaning we use routinely in our Operating Room. We will be applying those principles to every spa and treatment room for every visit. Regardless of reason for visitation, we will maintain a surgical level of sterility throughout our office during your visit.
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Patient Screening
Our primary goal at Ocean Drive Plastic Surgery and MedSpa is patient safety. Always has been, always will be. Because of this, we closed very early in response to this crisis. We did this to reduce the spread of this virus, but also, we did it to protect our facility from exposure. We are confident that our facility is safe and clean. To ensure this, however, we have elected to elevate the bar for our patients even further when it comes to their safety.
For the forseeable future, all patients receiving any procedure, surgical or nonsurgical, will receive free COVID-19 testing. Agaiin, ALL patients who receive advanced aesthetic services at Ocean Drive Plastic Surgery and MedSpa, or Ocean Drive Dermatology, will be offered FREE of charge a COVID-19 antibody screening test. This test has been validated and approved by the FDA, and has a 97% accuracy rate. Results are available within 10 minutes, and will be communicated to you within 24 hours of taking it.
Crisis does not create a person’s character. It reveals it.
We believe that COVID-19 was a test, of us individually, and as a community. We believe that we did everything possible to support our home in its time of need. Further, we believe that we have taken remarkable precautions to safeguard our patients and our staff, and we firmly believe that we are a safe, comfortable environment for spa services, Dermatology, and Plastic Surgery. We hope to see you soon. Stay safe!