{"id":3341,"date":"2020-04-15T18:26:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T18:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2020-04-29T15:48:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T15:48:55","slug":"information-for-psws-requiring-covid-19-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/15\/information-for-psws-requiring-covid-19-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Information for PSWs Requiring COVID-19 Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3342 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/covid-testing-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/covid-testing-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/covid-testing-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/covid-testing-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/covid-testing-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/covid-testing.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>If you have been potentially exposed to a client or other person that has tested positive for COVID-19, you will likely feel anxious or concerned about your own health. Please know that your risk of infection is low if you were wearing your personal protective equipment correctly and practicing hand hygiene regularly.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite the low risk, we require anyone potentially exposed to be tested for COVID-19 before returning to work. This way we can eliminate the potential for unknowingly spreading infection to others.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Who should go get tested?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Please go get tested if:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You have been asked by your CSS to be tested OR<\/li>\n<li>You are showing symptoms of COVID-19 (fever, cough, shortness of breath).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">If you are showing symptoms, please contact your CSS immediately to notify them.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Where should I go get tested?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Circle of Care is part of the North York Toronto Health Partners team as well as Sinai Health System. Our PSWs can receive priority COVID-19 testing at the two sites listed below. To receive priority testing,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>you must show your Circle of Care badge.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>North York General Hospital \u2013 Branson Ambulatory Care Centre<br \/>\n<\/strong>555 Finch Ave (North Entrance, immediately off Finch)<br \/>\nOpen 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day (last registration at 7:45 p.m.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mt. Sinai Hospital<br \/>\n<\/strong>600 University Ave (located just north of the main entrance)<br \/>\nOpen 8 a.m. to noon, Monday to Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information about who should be tested and where you can go for priority testing for COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3407,"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions\/3407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}