By WHITNEE ICE
St. Joseph Post
The St. Joseph Health Department is adjusting clinic hours due to the recent increase in COVID cases.
St. Joseph Health Department Clinic Supervisor Connie Werner says the increase in COVID-19 case numbers has caused the contact tracing staff to adjust their work flow.
“We are adjusting our clinic hours to allow for Health Department staff to help assist and supplement in getting cases called, cases entered into the state system, all of the pieces that relate to COVID cases,” Werner tells St. Joseph Post. “We are adjusting our work flow and hours to adjust to the surge in cases.”
Werner says the clinic will reopen to regular hours in August to accommodate back to school vaccinations.
“From now through August 9th we will have walk-in clinics but it will be in the afternoon, 1pm to 4pm. Starting on August 9th we will resume our morning and afternoon hours which are 8am to 11am, and 1pm to 4pm.”
The change in hours will allow staff to address the surge in COVID-19 cases. The impacted services are immunizations and TB testing, all other Health Department services will stay the same.
The new temporary clinic hours for the health department are from 1pm to 4pm, Monday through Friday. The clinic will reopen to original hours starting August 9th, in time for school immunizations.
St. Joseph reports a drop off the high of 135 new coronavirus cases reported on Tuesday with 39 new COVID-19 cases reported in Buchanan County Wednesday.
Mosaic Life Care reports it is treating 51 COVID-19 patients in its system; 48 in St. Joseph and three in Maryville.