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Imperial County officials provide an update on alternate care sites

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Published 1:11 PM

EL CENTRO, Calif. (KYMA, KECY) -

The Imperial County Health department says its alternative care sites or previously know as field medical stations are now

treating patients.

This change came to be more consistent with the state.

There is one site in Calexico that is already open but another site is set to open later this week.

“We have been open for one full week now able to accept patients. We were able to open last Monday and received our first patient last Tuesday since then we have taken seven patients to our ACS and of those seven so far 3 have been able to be very successfully discharged from our facility, Paula Kriner, Epidemiology Manager.

Kriner also emphasizes that their facilities are still developing in terms of care.

“We have also received new providers to help us assist with the ACS and we anticipate we will be able to increase the level of care and the number of patients we will be able to take.”

The health department also discussed focusing on vulnerable communities like the homeless and those incarcerated.

“We are trying to protect both the inmates and staff and so since we have now are going to have a second but it has one acs site we have the hospitals doing testing and we have private people testing as the health department has both external and internal capacity because we could send a test out.”

Neither the Imperial County Sheriff's Office nor the health department have released new numbers on inmates that have tested positive for COVID-19.

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