| Beginning Monday morning, March 16th at 6:00 AM---area residents will have a drive through testing capability for COVID 19 testing/screening. Unlike a fast food drive through, though, one must call a screening hotline first...... |
According to the below email that was sent to community leaders late Saturday evening--Ascension Healthcare/Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola is establishing a drive through testing center for COVID 19 on Monday, March 16th.
What isn't clear from this brief email is who can come and be tested. But there is a phone number listed for pre-screening must be completed beforehand.
This is forward progress --- which over the last week has seemed to be a bit shaky to the average observer like me.....not unlike a go-cart being built after it is rolling down the hill.
Meanwhile, in the West African nation of Senegal it is reported that testing is happening without delay and results are coming back in as little as 4 hours.
If Senegal can do this, why can't we?
From Sacred Heart's email:
"Subject: Regional drive-through testing center for COVID-19
opens Monday In Pensacola
On Monday,
March 16, 2020, Ascension Medical Group Sacred Heart is opening our first
regional drive-through testing center for COVID-19 at 5192 Bayou Blvd. in
Pensacola, Florida.
All patients
are required to be screened before arriving at the drive-through testing center
by calling the Ascension Sacred Heart COVID-19 Screening Call Center at (850)
746-2684. The screening call center will open on March 16, 2020 at
6am and will be open M-F from 6am-10pm.
For the week of
March 16th, the hours of operation for the drive-through testing
center for COVID-19 will be 9am-1pm.
Please
let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you"
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