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Lucas Metropolitan
Housing Authority, Neighborhood Health Association, Mercy
Health, and LabCorp Join Forces to Provide On-Site COVID-19
Testing at No Charge for Lucas Metropolitan Housing
Residents
Special to
The Truth
On Wednesday, June 24, 2020,
on-site COVID-19 testing became available to hundreds of
Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority (LMHA) residents. The
testing is made possible through a partnership between
Neighborhood Health Association (NHA), Mercy Health and
LabCorp, which has performed millions of COVID-19 tests
across the U.S. since early March. LMHA and its partners
have prioritized testing beginning with LMHA’s most
vulnerable populations – the elderly and disabled. The
testing will be provided at no charge to the residents.
Through this partnership, NHA
and Mercy Health are able to be on site at multifamily LMHA
developments and are targeting over 3,000 residents for this
testing. Joaquin Cintron Vega, LMHA’s president and CEO
stated, “We are very grateful to NHA, Mercy Health and
LabCorp for providing our residents with this unique
opportunity to be tested for COVID-19 and not have to leave
their homes. Our job in the COVID-19 testing process is to
provide site support where we help setup the test site and
empower the residents to be tested,” said Cintron Vega.
The partnership with Mercy
Health, LabCorp and the NHA in testing LMHA residents is the
best example of the great things we can accomplish when
organizations partner in service to this community. It is
our intention to ensure that every one of LMHA’s 6,000
residents has the opportunity to be tested. Black, Brown and
poor people are being hit with this virus at greater numbers
than any other group. The very least that we can do is to
help them fight it with the few tools we have at our
disposal,” said Doni Miller, CEO of Neighborhood Health
Association.
“Since first coming to this
community more than 160 years ago, Mercy Health has
dedicated itself to serving all those in need, especially
those who are poor and underserved,” said Bob Baxter,
president, Mercy Health Toledo. “We are proud to stand with
our partners to furthering this common mission of testing
one of the community’s most vulnerable populations to ensure
all members of our community have access to this testing.”
During the month of May, NHA
provided COVID-19 testing at no charge to over 50 LMHA
employees at NHA’s NEXUS Health Center.
For more information about
testing, please contact LMHA at (419)-259-9400 or
Neighborhood Health Association at (419) 720-7883.
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