Prosser Memorial Health launches special clinic for the COVID-19 outbreak

PROSSER, Wash. - Officials at Prosser Memorial Health are committed to providing the community with quality care. To help combat the spread of COVID-19 in the region, they are launching their new COVID-19 Care Clinic. They have also created a page on their website dedicated to COVID-19.

The Care Clinic will be open every weekday from 8:00am to 5:00pm. It is designed to help keep everyone safe and to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. Clinicians ask that if you're experiencing fever over 100, or cough and cold symptoms, to call and make an appointment. That number is 509-788-6030. When you arrive, officials ask that you please remain in your car for your evaluation.

Patients are asked to separate themselves from other people in their home, cover coughs and sneezes, and wash their hands for 20 seconds often. Practice social distancing of 6 feet apart from others. For those with respiratory distress who need to go to the Emergency Department, officials ask that you call ahead at 509-786-6662 so that a room can be prepared for you. The Prosser Memorial Health Emergency Department is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.