03/19/2020
Please see below.
Cookeville Medical Clinic will stay open with normal business hours to take care of our patients. Each passing day brings new challenges as they relate to the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). At Cookeville Medical Clinic, your health and safety are our top priorities.
We are instructing patients NOT TO ENTER the clinic if they are experiencing the symptoms related to COVID-19 (Fever, Cough, Difficulty Breathing) and, instead, to remain in their car and call the clinic for screening. We have a COVID-19 hotline at 931-854-9107. At this time, we DO have the required equipment and testing materials if you qualify.
TELEVISITS AVAILABLE: We are now also starting Televisits during this time so you can stay at home and still be seen by your provider for established patients only.
Here are the other specific steps we’re following to ensure the health of our patients:
- Additional Staff Training and In-service.
- Exam rooms will continue to be disinfected/sterilized between patients. Additionally, we have started disinfecting shared surfaces such as doorknobs and counters more frequently.
- Have started fogging the waiting rooms to kills all germs.
- Each patient will be asked to wash their hands to uphold standard community precaution.
- We request each patient go to their floor where their provider is located so we can separate out sick patients from healthy patients.
- We have implemented special protocols to be able separate out the patients that might have COVID-19 and to be able to test them away from our healthy patients.
-Limit the number of people you bring to your appointment.
- If you have any protective gear, we ask that you please wear it.
To our patients:
- Take normal, healthy precautions that you would during flu season. The CDC recommends frequent hand washing and the use of hand sanitizers, avoid touching your (eyes, nose, and mouth), practice social distancing, and cover you cough or sneeze with a tissue.
- If you’re experiencing anxiety around the situation we encourage you to indulge in this link from the CDC about “how it spreads”. This site arms us equally with irreplaceable knowledge about the situation as it stands today.(https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/transmission.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Fabout%2Ftransmission.html)
If you have any additional questions or need anything at all, please do not hesitate to contact us at 931-528-8899. Stay healthy. We are all going to get through this together. We are proud to be Your Family Medicine & Urgent Care Specialists since 1997.