Point Washington Medical Clinic: Having a Heart and Being Smart for Walton County – The Defuniak Herald & Beach Breeze
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Beginning weeks ago, the clinic took precautions to adjust their routine to perform drive-up screenings for patients. “We are working to decrease the exposure risk for any of the volunteers,” says Glenn.
Patients drive up, place a call to the clinic, and information is gathered over the phone. Patients are given a questionnaire sheet in both English and Spanish that will direct the next steps. Once data is collected, doctors in full PPE (Personal Protective Equipment including goggles, masks, gloves, cap, and gown) approach the car, giving them pencils and masks (for them to keep) and registration and questionnaires forms, and tested for temperature and oxygen levels. If a patient is coughing, has shortness of breath, a fever, or other symptoms of the virus, and it is determined that the PWMC must test for COVID-19, a packet of information is given to the client. Test results are turned in to labs and reported to the Department of Health. Glenn states that it is explained to the patient that, once swabbed for the virus, they must self-quarantine and consider themselves positive for 14 days or until results come back negative. If results come back positive, PWMC will notify the patient a well as the Department of Health.
PWMC has tests available flu and strep, both also in season, and, if there are symptoms, those tests will be administered first as a process of elimination before the COVID-19 testing. ...
“Soon, there will be more rapid testing and more tests that will be readily available.”...
