About Garrett Regional Medical Center
Garrett Regional Medical Center (GRMC) has opened a COVID-19 testing clinic at its location on Pythian Avenue behind the hospital campus. The clinic was established in order to provide coronavirus testing for people throughout GRMC’s 8-county service area who may have been exposed to the virus or who are showing symptoms.
The drive-through clinic requires patients to stay in their vehicles for the duration of the short process. In order to be tested, patients must have an order from a physician; people lacking a doctor’s order cannot be tested. Patients must bring their doctor’s order to the site and stay in their vehicles; hospital staff will come to them to both register them and perform the needed nasal swab test. This is being done to limit exposure for the hospital’s health care workers and other staff, and to ensure that patients testing negative are not exposed to patients who have the virus during the testing process.
Patients must have an order from a physician