BJC/Missouri Baptist is limiting testing to higher-risk, symptomatic patients—those over 65 or with concurrent medical conditions that put one at risk for complications from Covid. They will also continue to do pre-procedural testing.
Symptomatic people who are
not high risk, people with exposures but no symptoms, and people who require testing for work/school/travel will need to utilize the following resources:
Our office can do some PCR testing through Quest for low risk/asymptomatic/travel patients, but the turn-around time is 1-2 days and Quest limits the number of tests we can perform monthly.
In addition, our office intermittently has rapid testing available in limited amounts depending on our ability to find suppliers for them.
Tip: If you are self-performing a rapid test, we recommend swabbing the throat as well as the nose to increase the effectiveness of the test.