{"id":43667,"date":"2022-01-10T11:13:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T19:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=43667"},"modified":"2022-01-10T11:13:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T19:13:16","slug":"new-pick-up-testing-kit-program-to-help-meet-covid-19-surge-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=43667","title":{"rendered":"NEW \u201cPICK-UP TESTING KIT\u201d PROGRAM TO HELP MEET\u00a0COVID-19 SURGE DEMAND"},"content":{"rendered":"

LA County Launches New Test Collection Program as Part of Ongoing Efforts to Expand Testing Capacity and Access<\/em><\/h3>\n


\nJanuary 10, 2022 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>LA County Department of Health Services launches new program designed to increase and facilitate access to COVID-19 tests for LA County residents unable to obtain appointments. \u00a0The program will allow residents to pick up a PCR test kit, perform the test, and return the completed kit to designated locations for processing.\u00a0Residents will be notified of their test results within 24-48 hours.<\/p>\n

The \u201cPick-Up Testing Kit\u201d program is the latest in a series of LA County efforts designed to expand testing capacity as demand grows across the county. Recent efforts to increase capacity include increasing the days and hours of operation for existing sites, adding mobile testing units, and providing intermittent availability of Home Testing Kits via mail.<\/p>\n

The new \u201cPick-Up Testing Kit\u201d program will operate at 13 testing sites across LA County. \u201cPick-Up Test Kits\u201d will be available without an appointment and until daily supplies are exhausted. The \u201cPick-Up Testing Kits\u201d will test for both COVID-19 and Influenza (A and B), the same as all LA County operated testing locations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look forward to reducing the waiting time to get tested for individuals unable to book an appointment,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>said Paula Siler RN, MS Director of Community Mobile Testing Operations at the LA County Department of Health Services. \u00a0\u201cOnce all 13 Pick-Up Testing locations are fully operating and once our Home Testing Kit by mail program is simultaneously relaunched later this week, we will have successfully added over 10,000 additional daily Covid tests available to the residents of LA County.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

For details and a full listing of \u201cPick-Up Testing Kit\u201d locations and hours of operation please visit:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Pick-Up Testing Kit<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The new \u201cPick-Up Testing Kits\u201d are available to all LA County residents who are experiencing symptoms or believe they have been exposed to someone with COVID-19. To preserve limited resources, the \u201cPick-Up Testing Kits\u201d are not intended for use by those testing as a requirement to return to school, work or participate in other activities where routine testing is mandated. The \u201cPick-Up Testing Kits\u201d offer only PCR testing not rapid testing.<\/p>\n

Individuals who need to get tested as part of a requirement for work, school, or other activities should seek testing via their employer, school district or the entity requiring the testing.<\/p>\n

LA County residents can find COVID-19 testing sites at\u00a0covid19.lacounty.gov\/testing\/<\/a><\/p>\n

All testing locations listed within the county testing website offer COVID-19 tests at no out-of-pocket cost, regardless of insurance coverage or immigration status.<\/p>\n

It is important that LA County residents understand that\u00a0not<\/u><\/em>\u00a0all COVID-19 testing sites within the LA County region are affiliated or operated by LA County. COVID testing sites are also being operated by private companies, private health care systems and local municipalities and some of these privately operated sites do charge for their testing services.<\/p>\n

Only the testing sites listed within the LA County COVID-19 testing website\u00a0covid19.lacounty.gov\/testing\/<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/wbr>have been vetted by<\/em>\u00a0LA County.<\/p>\n

As of January 7, 2021 – there are approximately 260 COVID-19 testing locations listed in the LA County\u2019s COVID-19 testing site (covid19.lacounty.gov\/testing\/<\/em><\/a><\/wbr>), of those, the county operates about 66 community sites and 7 state sites. The remaining locations are operated by testing partners.<\/p>\n

Testing partner sites listed on LA County\u2019s website are sites that have been pre-screened by LA County to ensure that they offer testing with no out-of-pocket cost, regardless of health insurance or immigration status and that they offer testing using a test approved by the FDA.<\/p>\n

LA County does\u00a0not\u00a0<\/em>have oversight over testing sites not directly operated by the LA County Department of Health Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LA County Launches New Test Collection...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43668,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43667\/revisions\/43668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}