Physicians Quality Care received two more positive results from COVID-19 testing Thursday, bringing its positive tests to a total of six.
Three patients live in Madison County, two live in Gibson County and the sixth is a patient living in Carroll County.
PQC tested another 46 patients on Thursday – its highest amount for any one day since it began testing on March 18. The clinic has tested a total of 351 people for the coronavirus and has received results for 153 of those tests.
Many of those results, including the four new positives from this week, came from 75 “quick,” 24-hour tests PQC was able to secure from its suppliers.
“More people are concerned about the coronavirus and are coming in to be tested,” said Dr. Jimmy Hoppers, Physicians Quality Care CEO, “We quickly exhausted the 75 quick tests we were able to get this week, and we are looking into every avenue to get more. People are anxious; they don’t want to wait the five or more days it is taking to get other results back.”
All of PQC’s test kits are FDA approved; they are sent to CDC-approved, nationally accredited reference laboratories.
“We encourage people to get tested if they are worried that they may have been exposed, have someone at home at high risk or think they themselves are at increased risk,” Hoppers says, “This will help slow down the coronavirus; people with positive tests are told to quarantine themselves so they don’t spread the virus to others.”
PQC on Pleasant Plains Extended in Jackson, which tests patients with coronavirus concerns in its isolated and secure COVID-19 clinic, is actually operating three separate clinics, each with separate entrances and exam rooms. The other two clinics are for urgent care patients who are not showing symptoms related to COVID-19 and for primary care and OCCMed patients.
Patients with COVID-19 concerns should call PQC ahead of time or from the clinic’s parking lot when they arrive. They will be given a mask, brought through the COVID-19 clinic entrance and taken directly to an exam room without waiting. Besides the test for COVID-19, the exam includes a medical history, physical exam and screening for other common illnesses that are treatable yet may mimic COVID-19 symptoms.
The Jackson location is open 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., seven days a week. With all COVID-19 concerned patients directed to Jackson, the Milan location is open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. For more information, call 731-984-8400 or visit physiciansqualitycare.com.
