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Ross Memorial Medical center is closing its cold, COVID-19 and flu care clinic on Friday (March 24).
Earlier acknowledged as the COVID-19 Assessment Centre, the appointment-only Chilly, COVID-19 and Flu Treatment Clinic (CCFCC) opened on Dec. 6, 2022, that includes expanded scientific assessment eligibility to folks going through a vast selection of indicators, along with COVID-19 tests and antiviral treatment method.
“RMH’s COVID-19 Evaluation Centre and Cold, COVID-19 and Flu Treatment Clinic played a significant function in our community’s response to the world-wide COVID-19 pandemic by assisting restrict exposure to the virus and furnishing obtain to timely care in the course of a interval of great uncertainty and worry for many. That is one thing we are certainly happy of,” mentioned Ross Memorial Clinic president and CEO Kelly Isfan. “The clinic thanks all of our workers and doctors whose determination and dedication assisted navigate the clinic’s achievement.”
The hospital’s COVID-19 Assessment Centre opened in March 2020 as a travel-thru design furnishing COVID-19 testing in the hospital’s ambulance bay. That same thirty day period, the COVID-19 Assessment Centre moved to the Lindsay Exhibition Fairgrounds.
In Oct 2020, it relocated to its present-day area in the former admitting division within the clinic.
The COVID-19 Assessment Centre also used a thirty day period at the Victoria Park Armoury in early 2022.
About the class of three a long time, the Evaluation Centre/CCFCC was equipped to conduct more than 70,000 COVID tests and in excessive of 10,000 clinical assessments.
The centre is remaining closed owing to a continual decline in affected person volume.