Texas Department of Health Services - DSHS has a decidated call center that is available Monday through Friday Huntsville Hospital is making plans to administer COVID-19 tests to people who are showing no symptoms, CEO David Spillers said Monday. Starting Tuesday, 3/24/2020 at 7am, the front entrance to the hospital 125 Medical Park Lane "We are no longer using all of our testing capacity for patients who are symptomatic," Spillers said. In a press release by the Office Proper PPE will be worn in of our patients are asked to remain in their vehicle until the patient © 2020 Advance Local Media LLC. Unless you get tested often, you don’t learn a whole lot.". We have to make sure we have enough for our patients and our employees and enough for those people who are sick. Become a member of our Hospital Auxiliary. But Spillers said the fast-growing availability of tests is now allowing the hospital to relax the criteria. "We can do more testing than we're performing right now. “We are testing asymptomatic patients prior to certain elective procedures that we’re doing in the hospital,” he said. With at least 13 cases of coronavirus among White House staffers in the president's inner circle and his family, Hassoun explained the crucial first step in any outbreak. therapies and tests will be performed. Ivey orders evacuations along Gulf Coast ahead of Hurricane Delta, After losing 4 family members in storm, new radars give Phil Campbell tornado survivor hope. Our Emergency Department will not be allowing visitors. Hassoun said it's unclear what type of testing the White House is doing with its staff, but he said some tests can pick up traces of the virus earlier than others. Copyright © 2020 Allen Media Broadcasting, LLC All Rights Reserved. This includes a 16-year-old patient with coronavirus in … "You test negative today, it just means you're negative today," he said. Steven L. Smith Named CEO at Huntsville Memorial Hospital, Use this module to change background photo in Side Nav, HMH Financial Assistance – Walker County Indigent Care, HMH Online Verification Medical Staff Portal, Huntsville Memorial Hospital Board Portal, Appointmentments preferred but not required​. He explained there are crucial things that need to be done to control an outbreak. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your California Privacy Rights (each updated 1/1/20). Our staff will notify patients Extenuating With seemingly daily changes to coronavirus guidelines, we asked a local infectious disease doctor who you should trust when it comes to getting the information right. Fever & Flu Clinic open weekdays: Drive-through testing site locations & times: Urgent Care open daily: CAREERS. During the pandemic, hospitals prohibited visitors with a small number of exceptions. Spillers said lots of people have approached him, saying that they are convinced they have had COVID-19 but had not been tested. Huntsville Memorial Hospital implemented a policy that requires all of not in isolation in order to protect all of our patients. risk of spread of this coronavirus infection. Officials are holding a news conference about coronavirus Wednesday afternoon in Huntsville. For several weeks, Huntsville Hospital has had the capability of doing in-house coronavirus testing. Huntsville, TX 77340. Spillers said the hospital planned to make an announcement on the new testing guidelines later this week. "The most important thing is finding what we call the index case, meaning who had the first infection, and then to track and trace who got exposed and to test everyone," he explained. Huntsville Memorial Hospital continues to closely monitor the COVID-19 "If that's the case, we want to open that up to patients or individuals who feel like they want to be tested. Statistically, the vast majority of those are going to come back negative. from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. For more information, please call 1-877-570-9779. In an attempt to decrease the risk of a community spread, to be tested because our resources are stretched. We are asking that all visitors with exposure stay away from the hospital. If you do not have symptoms, please do not come to the Emergency Department is discharged. "I now know quite a few people who have been tested for antibodies and I don’t know of anybody yet whose got antibodies who wasn't diagnosed positive for COVID at some point," Spillers said. We think there's an ample supply and production across the country is going up to the point that if there is another surge, there will be far more material around next time.