CSU Pueblo receives award for pandemic response
PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) -- Leaders at CSU Pueblo have received an excellence and innovation award from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) for their pandemic response.
In January 2021, CSU Pueblo partnered with Spartan Medical to create an on-campus testing site for students and all employees. During the first six weeks, the student populations Covid-19 positivity rate dropped from 20% to less than 1%.
"If you had a headache that morning, we heard about it, you told us," Dr. Donna Souder Hodge, Chief Strategy Officer at CSU Pueblo, said. "And then we immediately said you know what you should go get tested, and then we were able to follow up with the rapid test with a more accurate PCR test right after and we were able to do that on site."