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Test numbers, expanded services — Update from Sonoma Valley Hospital

Through the end of April, Sonoma Valley hospital administered 286 COVID-19 tests, with 11 positive results and 12 still pending.

An SVH update today stated that efforts to slow the rate of the coronavirus in Sonoma Valley are working, and the facility has begun scheduling outpatient services. 

A decrease in the number of new cases week over week in the Bay Area as well as a decrease in the number of individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 are “all good signs we are headed in the right direction, and there is no need for community members to delay using the hospital for essential health services.”

All hospital services, including Outpatient Diagnostic Testing, Rehabilitation, Wound Care, Occupational Health, and Infusions are operational and scheduling patient visits. The scheduling of some non-emergent surgeries, which will resume next week. 

The SVH Emergency Department remains open 24/7 as always, and our COVID-19 hotline and drive-through testing remains open.

“We continue to take precautions with patients within the Hospital, with rigorous sanitizing protocols in place and physical distancing practiced in waiting areas. We ask patients to bring a facial covering for visits if you have one. If not, we will provide one.”

The hospital’s COVID-19 information page will continue to keep the community informed “but as we are now turning our attention to recovery, our updates will be less frequent, although we will continue to share important information as it becomes available.”

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