Belleville Memorial Hospital issued the following announcement on March 19.
Memorial Hospital, in cooperation with St. Clair County Health Department will open a drive-through Coronavirus (COVID-19) specimen collection site at 4000 North Illinois Lane in Swansea (former location of Siteman Cancer Center).
Beginning Thursday, March 19, the drive-through collection site will be operational 7 days a week from noon to 6 p.m.
Before coming to this collection site, community members need to FIRST contact their primary care physician who will work with the local health departments to pre-screen and validate if you need to come to the specimen collection site.
If you have not completed the pre-screening process as described in the previous paragraph, please do not come to the specimen collection site. You cannot have a specimen collected without prior evaluation by your physician, convenient/urgi care provider and authorization from the local health department.
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