National Guard will be Coronavirus Testing at Upham House

The following provided by Medfield Town Administrator, Kristine Trierweiler.

Coronavirus Testing at Thomas Upham House

The National Guard will be at the Thomas Upham House on Saturday, April 11th to provide scheduled on-site testing of the residents.

The Baker-Polito Administration announced the National Guard would provide mobile testing of residents at long term care facilities beginning on April 7th.

https://www.mass.gov/news/baker-polito-administration-announces-increased-resources-for-health-care-providers-expanded

Nursing Home Mobile Testing Program: Building on efforts to protect high-risk populations like older adults, the Baker-Polito Administration has launched a program to allow for safe, rapid on-site testing of residents of long-term care facilities like nursing homes and rest homes. The initiative is being completed as a partnership between the Department of Public Health (DPH) and the Massachusetts National Guard and the testing being conducted by the BROAD institute. So far, the National Guard has been deployed to 80 facilities across the state and has completed more than 1,300 tests since this program started last week. Starting yesterday, DPH worked to
expand the program by providing an option for places to use their on-site medical personnel to collect specimens and send them to the state lab for testing. Today, DPH issued new guidance to nursing homes and rest homes with recommendations aimed at protecting the health of residents and health care workers and mitigating the risk of transmission of COVID-19, both inside and outside of these facilities.

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