[Covid-19] COVID-19 testing & hotline transitions to Bartlett Regional Hospital after April 30

[Lisa Phu]

[CBJ_LargeColorLogo_png]

155 S. Seward Street  ▪  Juneau, Alaska  99801  ▪  907-586-5240


INFORMATION RELEASE
April 19, 2022

COVID-19 testing & hotline transitions to Bartlett Regional Hospital after April 30
Saturday, April 30, will be the last day the City and Borough of Juneau runs the COVID-19 hotline and the drive-thru testing facility at the Hagevig Fire Training Center. After that, Bartlett Regional Hospital will take over operations of both<https://www.bartletthospital.org/news/releases/juneau-s-covid-19-drive-thru-testing-to-continue-beyond-april-30/>, with BRH taking over the hotline Monday, May 2, and drive-thru testing for the general public available on the BRH campus starting May 8.
The Juneau community can expect other aspects surrounding the COVID-19 testing process to remain the same: the hotline number will still be 907-586-6000; to schedule a test, register online<https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/bfff396a9a514483bc13def5a9e64dbc> or call the hotline; and tests will continue to be analyzed at Bartlett with results available within 24 hours.
CBJ stood up the Emergency Operations Center in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and implemented the drive-thru testing site and the hotline<https://juneau.org/newsroom-item/for-those-without-a-primary-health-provider-ccfr-implements-hotline-testing-center>. While COVID-19 transmission continues to occur in Juneau, hospitalization rates are low, vaccines are widely available, and treatments are available. With COVID-19 no longer an emergent situation, CBJ is ending its Emergency Operations Center framework. Aside from the drive-thru testing and hotline transitioning to Bartlett, the public can expect to see these other changes after April 30:

  *   CBJ will no longer implement COVID-19 Risk Metrics and Mitigations Strategies<https://app.smartsheet.com/b/publish?EQBCT=0a602fc51ee24966abb3721c8fabfb82>, though the community can continue to reach out to CBJ for best practices.
  *   CBJ will no longer maintain its COVID-19 Dashboard<https://app.smartsheet.com/b/publish?EQBCT=1974bb51a6a34ab2831ef4d26e4b84e5>. Instead, the community can get data from the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services through its Cases Dashboard<https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/af2efc8bffbf4cdc83c2d1a134354074/?form=MY01SV&OCID=MY01SV> (which is updated every Wednesday) and Weekly COVID-19 Updates (subscribe here<https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/AKDHSS/bulletins/313a213?fbclid=IwAR15ccqrnPQT_l99U5DHe9tRv6rY3E5ahTCfwnVXq8AX-17oPDmItj1KNcc>). The community can also keep track of Juneau’s COVID-19 Community Level through this resource from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/covid-by-county.html>.
  *   CBJ will no longer be issuing Emergency Operations Center updates<https://juneau.org/covid19-eoc-updates>.

CBJ will continue to maintain the webpage juneau.org/vaccine<https://juneau.org/covid-19/vaccine-information>, which is an easy way to make a COVID-19 vaccine appointment at the Juneau Public Health Center and other local providers. CBJ is currently distributing free COVID-19 antigen home tests and KN95 masks from the City Hall cash office, all Juneau Public Libraries, Juneau Public Health Center, and Juneau Police Department – and will continue to as long as supply is available.
###
For more information, contact Emergency Operations Center Planning Section Chief Denise Koch at Denise.Koch at juneau.org<mailto:Denise.Koch at juneau.org> or 907-586-0800 ext. 4182.



Lisa Phu (she/her)
Public Information Officer
City & Borough of Juneau
(907) 586-5374
Follow CBJ on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/cbjuneau>, Twitter<https://twitter.com/cbjuneau> & Instagram<http://instagram.com/cbjuneau>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ci.juneau.ak.us/pipermail/covid-19/attachments/20220419/9bd61cca/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image003.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 13358 bytes
Desc: image003.jpg
URL: <https://lists.ci.juneau.ak.us/pipermail/covid-19/attachments/20220419/9bd61cca/attachment.jpg>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: 2022.4.19 COVID-19 testing & hotline transitions to Bartlett Regional Hospital after April 30.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 473819 bytes
Desc: 2022.4.19 COVID-19 testing & hotline transitions to Bartlett Regional Hospital after April 30.pdf
URL: <https://lists.ci.juneau.ak.us/pipermail/covid-19/attachments/20220419/9bd61cca/attachment.pdf>