SCRANTON — The Wright Center for Community Health is partnering with Keystone Mission to provide on-site COVID-19 testing, well-check services, and COVID-19 and…
Patients who registered for a test were issued pagers and asked to wait in their personal vehicles until they received notice to board the van for testing, said Rebecca Kenderes, director of student health and physician assistant services for The Wright Center. Medical staff evaluated factors such as risk, symptoms and exposure when determining whether to administer a15-minute, rapid-result antigen nasal swab or a deeper test known as PCR, which yields results in two to 10 days, depending on lab volume. Kenderes talks with reporter amid snowflakes Wednesday morning.