Milford Regional shifts services at urgent care locations
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A Milford Regional outpatient center in Franklin
Milford Regional Medical Center has announced shifts to the patients its urgent care locations will serve, with the Hopkinton location focusing on respiratory patients and those with COVID-19 symptoms.
The announcement, made Thursday, detailed changes to services at the Hopkinton, Northbridge and Franklin urgent care locations. The major change in the announcement is that all patients with symptoms of or exposure to COVID-19 in need of diagnostic imaging services will be directed to Milford Regional Medical Center or the Hopkinton urgent care site.
The Milford Regional Urgent Care at 1 Lumber St. in Hopkinton will open as a respiratory care clinic. While it will remain open for x-rays, the location will treat those exhibiting respiratory illnesses, such as fever, cough, mild shortness of breath, wheezing, sore throat, muscle aches, or lost sense of taste or smell. Patients without those symptoms will be still be able to go to the location.
The Milford Regional in The Blackstone Valley at 100 Commerce Way in Northbridge will be closed. A respiratory clinic will be opened at 200 Commerce Way in the area previously used as OB/GYN and pediatric offices. The clinic will treat those exhibiting respiratory illnesses, however patients with symptoms of or exposure to COVID-19 in need if diagnostic imaging services will still be directed to Milford Regional Medical Center or the Hopkinton urgent care site.
The Milford Regional Urgent Care in Franklin will revert back to an urgent care facility seeing patients for all health issues not related to COVID-19. Patients in need of diagnostic imaging services with symptoms of or exposure to COVID-19 will be directed to Hopkinton.
Milford Regional encourages potential patients to go to milfordregional.org for the latest information on the Medical Center’s response to COVID-19.
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