Per today’s meeting between Greenwich Hospital President and CEO Norman Roth and First Selectman Fred Camillo, below is a joint media statement:
Greenwich Hospital and the Town of Greenwich have been preparing for COVID-19 for the past two months. Anyone with symptoms is urged to contact their physician directly and not come directly to the Emergency Department. Greenwich Hospital continues to operate its mobile collection site located in the hospital’s parking lot and it requires a physician’s order to have a patient tested for COVID-19.
Any patients who come into the Greenwich Hospital Emergency Department with symptoms are being placed in isolation and all recommended precautions are being taken to protect our staff and other patients. We are not allowing any visitors in the hospital other than those essential to care.
Both in Greenwich and throughout our Health System, we have been in regular contact with our state and local representatives, including First Selectman Fred Camillo, to ensure a continuous dialogue and sharing of information.
Greenwich Hospital is fortunate to be a member of one of the nation’s leading health systems, with access to some of the world’s most prominent infectious disease specialists at Yale New Haven Health and Yale Medicine. We are communicating on a regular basis with those experts as well other hospitals in our health system.
