Return to Campus Guide Update

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The GHC Return to Campus Guide has recently been updated. Below is a excerpt from the most recent updated version:

Access the full version of the GHC Return to Campus guide here. For more information about our return to campus and other coronavirus information please visit chargeahead.highlands.edu

Contact Tracing:

“Contact tracing is a strategy in which public health officials work with an individual to help them recall everyone with whom they have had close contact during the time frame in which they have been infectious or have been in the immediate vicinity of someone who was infectious.

If a GHC employee, or student thinks or knows they have COVID-19 (whether they are exhibiting symptoms or not), or if they have had an exposure through close contact, they should immediately notify their appropriate GHC point of contact (POC)

The employee point of contact (POC) is Terri Cavender in the Office of Human Resources. Student POCs are the campus leaders (Campus Dean, Site Director or Site Manager) at each location. GHC campus leaders will coordinate with Terri, who will communicate with the GA Department of Public Health (DPH), as necessary, to conduct contact tracing. Due to the volume of calls that the GA DPH is currently receiving, Terri will conduct basic contact tracing at GHC.

Student POCs:

  • Cartersville – Leslie Johnson, Campus Dean (706-802-5195)
  • Douglasville – Julia Areh, Site Director (678-872-8072)
  • Floyd – Brad Gilmore, Campus Manager (706-802-5479)
  • Heritage Hall – Michelle Boyce, Dean HS (678-295-6326)
  • Marietta – Ken Reaves, Campus Dean (678-872-8511)
  • Paulding – Christina Henggeler, Site Manager (678-946-1105)

DPH defines close contact as:

  • Living in the same household as a sick person with COVID-19; 
  • Caring for a sick person with COVID-19; 
  • Being within 6 feet of a sick person with COVID-19 for about 15 minutes; OR, 
  • Being in direct contact with secretions from a sick person with COVID-19 (e.g., being coughed on, kissing, sharing utensils, etc.). 

According to the CDC, exposure may include close contact with a:

  • Person with COVID-19 who has had symptoms (in the period from 2 days before symptom onset until they meet criteria for discontinuing home isolation; can be laboratory-confirmed or a clinically compatible illness) 
  • Person who has tested positive for COVID-19 (laboratory confirmed) but has not had any symptoms (in the 2 days before the date of specimen collection until they meet criteria for discontinuing home isolation)”