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Confluence Health Postpones Elective Procedures & Routine Care Visits


Mar 17, 2020

At Confluence Health, our goal continues to be to safeguard the health of our community. This includes patients, staff, and other residents of North Central Washington.

The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) infection is evolving rapidly in Washington State.  The United States is currently seeing the rate of rise in cases tracking with Italy and other parts of the world.

We have been exceedingly fortunate that NCW has seen very few positive tests. However, we have every reason to believe that the virus is here. “Social distancing” measures have proven to be more effective when they are implemented early and applied broadly throughout communities.

To proactively minimize the possibilities of spreading the virus, we have made the careful decision to suspend  elective surgical procedures and routine care visits at Confluence Health beginning Tuesday, March 17 for the next six weeks, then we will reassess.

Urgent and emergent surgeries are those which are necessary to protect and maintain an individual’s health such as appendectomies and broken bones. Surgical care for these will remain unchanged and uninterrupted.

In person routine care visits at Confluence Health beginning Tuesday, March 17 are also being curtailed for the next six weeks. If you have an appointment or treatment that in consultation with your provider best serves you to be done in person, we will make sure you are seen. We are working to offer telephone based visits and are working as hard as we can to offer video conferencing options shortly.

What you can do to help: If are you currently scheduled for an elective procedure or routine care visit, we are encouraging you to call ahead and cancel. Calling ahead will greatly help our call centers as we move through the logistics of these proactive moves. This can be done via MyChart or phone call to 509-663-8711.

Members of our scheduling team will also be reaching out directly to inform patients of any changes to your upcoming appointment.


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