Elizabethtown, NY – The University of Vermont Health Network - Elizabethtown Community Hospital will offer a daily by-appointment COVID-19 testing service at its Elizabethtown and Ticonderoga campuses. The outpatient service will be open daily from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.

“Increased testing in our area will help inform decisions on how residents can safely return to work,” said the UVM Health Network - Elizabethtown Community Hospital Chief Medical Officer Dr. David Clauss. “We want to do everything we can with the resources available to us to support those efforts and keep our community safe.”

The hospital’s testing service will be available to people with respiratory symptoms or other symptoms suggestive of COVID-19, those with exposure to a suspected or confirmed case, and to those whose return to work depends on a negative test result. According to Dr. Clauss, the hospital has expanded eligibility for testing because there is now secure access to testing supplies.

“Testing, and isolating positive cases, is the best way for us to avoid a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases in Essex County,” said Essex County Health Department Director Linda Beers. The Essex County Office of Emergency Services recently received 75 COVID-19 test kits, the second such shipment from the state. “The latest shipment will bolster testing capacity in the region,” said Ms. Beers.

“We have been working closely with our area health care providers to advocate for increased testing and expanded eligibility. With our support of additional test kits, and Elizabethtown Community Hospital’s efforts to provide care across the county regardless of whether they have a provider or insurance, we are seeing the barriers of transportation and cost eliminated for our residents looking to be tested,” said Ms. Beers.

Appointments for the hospital’s testing service will be available daily from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the UVM Health Network’s Elizabethtown Community Hospital and its Ticonderoga Campus. To schedule an appointment in Elizabethtown, please call (518) 873-3069. To schedule an appointment in Ticonderoga, please call (518) 585-3927.

In-person and telehealth appointments are also available at the hospital’s health centers located in Au Sable Forks, Elizabethtown, Westport, and Willsboro. The health centers are accepting new patients and offering next-day appointments. For more information, please call (518) 873-6896.

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About Elizabethtown Community Hospital

The University of Vermont Health Network - Elizabethtown Community Hospital is a designated critical access hospital and the primary health care provider serving the 39,000 people who live, work and vacation in Essex County, NY and the surrounding region.

Elizabethtown Community Hospital is transforming rural health care at its main campus in Elizabethtown, NY, at a new emergency department and outpatient center at the former Moses Ludington Hospital in Ticonderoga, NY, and at six community-based primary health care centers located throughout the region.  The hospital is one of the community’s largest employers with 383 employees.

Across the Elizabethtown and Ticonderoga campuses, the hospital maintains two 24-hour emergency rooms, a 25-bed inpatient unit, physical therapy, laboratory, and digital radiology departments, and a variety of specialty physician clinics on a weekly and monthly basis.  

Elizabethtown Community Hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission and is licensed and certified by the New York State Department of Health and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

About The University of Vermont Health Network
The University of Vermont Health Network is an academic health system that is comprised of six affiliate hospitals, a multi-specialty medical group, and a home health agency. We serve the residents of Vermont and northern New York with a shared mission: working together, we improve people’s lives.  Our partners include:

• The University of Vermont Medical Center  
• The University of Vermont Health Network Medical Group
• The University of Vermont Health Network – Alice Hyde Medical Center
• The University of Vermont Health Network – Central Vermont Medical Center
• The University of Vermont Health Network – Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital
• The University of Vermont Health Network – Elizabethtown Community Hospital
• The University of Vermont Health Network – Porter Medical Center
• The University of Vermont Health Network – Home Health and Hospice

Our 4,000 health care professionals are driven to provide high quality, cost-efficient care as close to home as possible. Strengthened by our academic connection to the University of Vermont, each of our hospitals remains committed to its local community by providing compassionate, personal care shaped by the latest medical advances and delivered by highly skilled experts.