GARDNER Officials at Heywood Healthcare are marking some milestones in their fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
In his video update on March 12, Heywood Healthcare CEO and President Win Brown noted that it has been one year since the hospital sent out its first COVID specimen for testing.
Brown said the next few weeks will mark the one-year anniversaries of other notable milestones. He said the hospital’s first COVID-19 positive test result was seen last year on March 23, and April 13 will be the anniversary of its highest one-day positive average of 21.6 percent.
“Our lowest day was June 23, at .06 percent, and on Oct. 21 we had our highest number of COVID-19 samples collected in one day 747 tests were done that day,” Brown said. He said the highest number of positive test results, 54, were returned on Jan. 5 of this year. “We have tested 65,845 tests so far, so just amazing work by our testing team and our lab. They have done incredible, hard work to make sure tha