Hotel Rooms for Health Care workers working with COVID-19
/UFCW 21 has worked with King County and other health care unions to make free hotel rooms available for health care workers who need to protect themselves or their household members from exposure to COVID-19, need to self-quarantine away from home, or who meet other conditions (see below). The county has a block of rooms available at a hotel in Bellevue, and the City of Seattle has secured hotel rooms in Seattle.
These rooms are available beginning Friday, April 10. Rooms are for the health care worker only; no additional guests may occupy these rooms.
To request a room, please fill out a form for the location appropriate for you. If you don’t know the answers to a question or aren’t sure if you’re eligible, fill it out to the best of your ability and someone from UFCW 21 will contact you to help figure out your situation and book your room.
Seattle
The Seattle hotel rooms are for health care workers in the following circumstances:
Healthy workers who cannot stay at home to avoid further exposure to a confirmed COVID-19 positive household member or to avoid long commutes between lengthy shifts.
Healthy workers with vulnerable household member, to mitigate the risks of unwittingly exposing them to COVID-19 in the absence of accessible testing.
Exposed health care workers who need quarantine accommodations because they have been exposed to COVID-19 and cannot self-quarantine at home.
COVID-19 positive nurses and health care workers who are asymptomatic or with minor symptoms that do not require hospitalization but cannot quarantine at home.
Bellevue
The Bellevue hotel rooms are for health care workers who are healthy and who have not tested positive for COVID-19.
Health care workers who are COVID-19-positive or symptomatic pending test results can access King County isolation and quarantine rooms at a different facility or ask to be booked at the Seattle hotel .
