Marble Falls hospital enacts visitor and testing protocols
Contributed
Facilities within the Baylor Scott and White Health network, including the Marble Falls medical center location, 810 W. Texas 71, have instituted limited visitation protocols and created a drive-through COVID-19 testing feature for eligible patients.
By Connie Swinney
Staff Writer
In Marble Falls, Baylor Scott and White Hospital has enacted guidelines which control and limit foot traffic as well as accommodates COVID-19 testing procedures.
The protocols include:
• Temporarily limiting public entry points on the Marble Falls campus to the emergency department, main hospital entrance and specialty clinic entrance;
• Evening visitors are being limited to critical patients and will enter through the emergency room;
•Visitors will undergo a short screening at the designated hospital entry points;
• Drive-through specimen collection will be established at the main canopy of the Marble Falls hospital for those tested;
• Those visitors under the age of 16 are temporarily suspended entry …
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