COVID-19 testing at Church of the Highlands reaches 1,000 mark, 8 new cases detected so far
Updated Mar 19, 1:43 PM; Posted Mar 19, 9:47 AM
By Greg Garrison | ggarrison@al.com
The Church of the Highlands continued its third day of hosting drive-through testing for COVID-19 and reached more than 1,000 total tests early Thursday morning.
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The tests are being administered by the staff of Christ Health Center, a clinic founded by the Church of the Highlands in Woodlawn in 2009, and will be processed by Assurance Scientific Laboratory in Birmingham, which provides the test kits.
The testing is being done in tents on the parking lot at the main campus of the church on Grants Mill Road, just off Interstate 459. More than 100 volunteers and medical staff workers are coordinating the effort.
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People are discouraged from coming if they don’t have clear symptoms or known exposure. Pre-screening will be done on site.
Drive-through testing patients are being billed through their health insurance. “Uninsured paid nothing," Schranz said. "If they had insurance they will be billed.”
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