The coronavirus asymptomatic screening site is at the Carroll Room in the Campus Center and will be open Monday–Friday, 7 to 10 a.m. and 4 to 6 p.m.

Please send any questions regarding coronavirus screening or contact tracing to testingandtracing@smith.edu.

• Employees who are required to be on campus once per week must be screened once per week. Employees who are required to be on campus twice per week or more must be screened twice per week.
• All employees required to work on campus must have a manager submit a return to campus request on their behalf. Faculty members may request these themselves. This is a required and very important first step into getting into the testing protocol pool. When this request is submitted, we are ensuring that you are in the Broad Institute’s lab software used for processing asymptomatic testing.
• Employees must schedule their own screening(s). Appointments will be scheduled for the next two weeks. Please check back to schedule future appointments.
• Informed consent forms for the asymptomatic screening will be completed on site at the first screening appointment.
• Results will be made available 36–48 hours after the screening is completed. Results will be emailed from the Broad Institute’s lab software, CareEvolve.
• Only negative screening results will be communicated via email.
• Positive screening results will be communicated by health-care staff at the Schacht Center for Health and Wellness. Employees who receive a positive screening result should contact their manager and their human resources representative as soon as possible to discuss next steps.
• A member of the college’s Contact Tracing Team will reach out to test-positive employees within 24 hours to discuss any close contacts they may have had on campus. Cases will then be passed on to the local Board of Health, which will interview the employee about any close contacts in the employee’s town of residence.
• When signing into CareEvolve for the first time you will be prompted to confirm demographic information. Please select “unknown” for gender and enter your home ZIP code. This information can be updated after viewing your initial negative screening results.
• A note about gender classification in CareEvolve: The Massachusetts Department of Public Health, which CareEvolve must report screening data to, currently dictates that “gender” (their term) be coded into only four categories: “other,” “unknown,” “female” and “male.” You will be asked to indicate which category your test results should be coded into and unfortunately, based on Massachusetts requirements, we can only provide these four choices. Each member of our community has been loaded into the system with a gender identity listed as “unknown,” to not presume each member's gender.
  Smith College acknowledges that these categories are not inclusive or accurate, and they are not the categories we use to provide clinical care to students. We apologize to students, as does the Broad Institute. We have been in contact with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to ask them to reconfigure how they categorize and use the term “gender” and we will continue to work to change this requirement.

If you test positive for COVID-19

• If you test positive after completing an asymptomatic screening, someone on the Schacht Center staff will call you to discuss your test result and offer guidance about how to access any needed medical care and how to navigate the state required isolation period.
• After receiving a positive result, a member of the HR team will assist you in how to record your time on your timesheet (if applicable) and will assist in notifying your manager that you are approved for a leave of absence from your position. You will continue to be paid for any time spent in quarantine or isolation.
• In accordance with state Department of Public Health requirements, a member of the college’s contact tracing team will call you within 24 hours of receiving your positive test result. The tracer’s job is to interview you and make sure you are connected with appropriate medical resources, offer broad information about isolation/quarantine guidelines, and work with you to identify anyone on campus with whom you may have had close contact. You will also be contacted by your local Board of Health in the city or town of your residence. They will work with you to ensure you have any additional support you need and will inquire about anyone in your local community with whom you have had direct contact.
• If you do not develop symptoms, you will be able to return to work approximately 10 days after receiving your positive result. The Office of Human Resources will guide you in submitting appropriate medical certification to return to work.
• If you do develop symptoms, you should contact your primary health-care provider for guidance. You may return to work after:
  1. 10 days have passed since symptoms first appeared
  2. 24 hours with no fever without the use of fever-reducing medications
  3. Other symptoms of COVID-19 are improving
  4. Your doctor has cleared you to return to work and provided the Office of Human Resources with appropriate medical certification to return to work.
• After you test positive, you will continue to show positive test results for up to 90 days. You should discontinue asymptomatic screening protocol during this time. A representative from the asymptomatic screening and contract tracing team will be in touch with you at the end of the 90 days to remind you to begin asymptomatic screening again.