Ross Memorial Hospital’s COVID-19 assessment centre will be moving back to the hospital at 10 Angeline Street North in Lindsay after the Family Day long weekend.
Located at the Victoria Park Armoury since January 11, the assessment centre will begin operating out of the hospital again on Tuesday (February 22).
The assessment centre offers by-appointment-only COVID-19 tests from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday excluding statutory holidays. The assessment centre also offers clinical assessments, where health care professionals can provide an assessment if your COVID-19 symptoms are getting worse, but are not severe enough to require an emergency department visit.
If you are eligible to book an appointment for a COVID-19 test or a clinical assessment, call 705-328-6217. If you are unable to get through, the hospital advises living a single voicemail message (refrain from leaving multiple messages) and you will receive a call back within one or two business days.
Ross Memorial Hospital says it is also finalizing a plan for the assessment centre to offer community members Paxlovid, an antiviral drug recently approved by Health Canada that treats adults with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 who are at high risk of progressing to serious disease, including hospitalization or death.
Ross Memorial Hospital has conducted more than 60,000 COVID-19 tests since it began conducting tests in March 2020.
