San Juan Regional Medical Center offers Monoclonal Antibody therapy for COVID positive patients ages 12 and up who meet certain criteria.
- Patients must be referred to the Monoclonal Antibody Clinic. Referrals will be accepted only through: 1) primary care provider 2) Urgent Care 3) Emergency Department 4) COVID to Home program.
- Time is of the essence. Treatment must begin within 10 days of the onset of symptoms.
- If you have recently been diagnosed with COVID-19 and feel you may be a candidate, contact your primary care provider immediately to seek a referral.
- Patients cannot self-refer due to treatment criteria.
San Juan Regional Medical Center’s Monoclonal Antibody Therapy clinic is held in our Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehab Gym in the main hospital Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. . Learn more.
Emergency Department and Urgent Care are Here for Urgent and Emergent Medical Issues; Not COVID-19 Testing Sites
San Juan Regional Medical Center’s Emergency Department and San Juan Health Partners Urgent Care clinic are here for you and available for your urgent and emergent medical needs. When you are experiencing an acute illness or injury, or a true urgent or emergent medical issue, we encourage you to visit us. Both the ED and Urgent Care are open 7 days a week, 365 days a year for everyone who needs us. However, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to progress, we are seeing more and more patients utilizing the ED and Urgent Care as COVID testing sites.
“Please, don’t treat the ED or Urgent Care as COVID testing sites. We are always here to diagnose and treat your acute illnesses and injuries but coming to the ED simply for a COVID test can interfere with our ability to take care of patients with medical emergencies,” said Dr. Brad Greenberg, Emergency Medicine Physician and Medical Director of Emergency Preparedness.
There are many testing sites in our community. We have a list of several of them here: https://www.sanjuanregional.com/coronavirus/testing-vaccination-information.
Stay safe. Get tested when you need to. But please remember, the Emergency Department and Urgent Care are not your testing sites. Thank you for helping us focus our care on the patients who need us most.
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COVID Vaccine Clinic for Kids:
San Juan Health Partners Pediatrics wants to make it easy for you to get your child’s COVID-19 vaccine. We are holding a dedicated COVID vaccine clinic every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon by appointment. We are offering the Pfizer vaccine, which is approved for children 12 years and older. If your child is an established patient at San Juan Health Partners Pediatrics, and is 12 or older, you can call 505.609.6700 to schedule a vaccine.
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COVID to Home
San Juan Regional Medical Center is coordinating care and providing close monitoring to COVID-19 patients and those with signs and symptoms of the virus while they recover at home through our COVID to Home (C2H) clinic.
This program, which is based on Vanderbilt University’s Care Model, has treated more than 700 patients since April. It is available to COVID patients who do not have a primary care provider who are either discharged home for self-isolation or do not require hospitalization. C2H providers conduct routine telemedicine visits, either by phone or video conferencing, to follow up with the patients to ensure safe and effective care at home until they have recovered.
Goals of the C2H clinic include:
· Utilize telemedicine for frequent monitoring to promote social distancing
· Coordinate safe and effective transfer to a higher level of care when indicated
· Decrease the number of COVID-19 related visits to Urgent Care and the Emergency Department
· Decrease the number of admitted patients to the hospital secondary to safe and effective care at home
· Decrease healthcare worker exposure to COVID-19
· Conserve PPE
· Promote social distancing to flatten the curve and mitigate overwhelming the local healthcare infrastructure
Patients who are interested in this program can call 505.609.6284 to be screened for enrollment. Providers who would like to refer a patient and/or get a copy of the protocol are also asked to call this number.
Video: Rebekah French, Certified Nurse Practitioner at San Juan Health Partners Family Medicine and the COVID-19 To Home Clinic, discusses her experiences caring for patients with COVID-19 and the urgent need to follow social guidelines to stop the spread of the deadly virus.
We are open for you: San Juan Regional Medical Center is here for you, ready to provide the safe, quality care that you need. We are open and ready to meet our patients’ needs, whether they are COVID-19 related or not. We know there is a lot of uncertainty right now due to COVID-19. That’s why we’re taking extra precautions to keep you safe when you come to visit us.
Resources
SJRMC Limited Visitor Policy
SJRMC Blog
The New Mexico Department of Health: https://cv.nmhealth.org/
The New Mexico Department of Health: COVID-19 coronavirus testing now available in New Mexico
CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html,
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