Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Thursday that his office 'continues to be in close contact with state and local officials to monitor the situation, as well as the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Prisons to get more resources to the Lexington Federal Medical Center and to encourage its workers to get tested.'

'We must work together to stop the spread through our prisons.' 'My office has been in touch with prison officials and public health officials in Lexington and across the state this week, connecting them for information and resources,' Kentucky Senator Rand Paul said Thursday. State lawmakers have gotten involved, calling for more communication between FMC Lexington and the Lexington Health Department.

'Communication with has been sporadic, and sometimes it's non-existent,' Lexington Health Department Spokesman Kevin Hall told the Lexington Herald-Leader on Wednesday. However, communication between FMC Lexington and the local health department has been limited. Officials at the Lexington Health Department have called for any individual who has worked at FMC Lexington since April 20 to be tested for the virus because of possible exposure. So we want to work in the community as much as we can to try to keep this at bay and keep everybody healthy and safe,” Kelsey said.Īs of now, the Danville testing site will be open seven days a week, from 7 a.m.Inmates at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Lexington, Kentucky have only received a limited amount of coronavirus testing although 69 people have been confirmed by the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department to have contracted the virus within the facility. We know the hospitals have been having a lot of cases there and the ICU is filling up. “It was very important to me to try to get as many people tested in this area as we could just so that we can try to keep the community COVID under control. “At our drive-in clinic we actually have nasal swabs, they're not the nasopharyngeal swab so we're able to swab just inside the nose, we don't have to go really deep in the nose so it's not as invasive as what people are used to,” Kelsey said.Īs someone who is from Boyle county, Kelsey said this testing location is important to him, and it gives him an opportunity to protect his community. Using different techniques, he hopes people who are hesitant of getting tested will consider using their new site. The company has worked with the state and plans to be in Danville for some time. “Rapid tests have their purpose but at our laboratory, we can actually test them on instrumentation that will give us very very precise and accurate results, the turnaround time is a little bit longer than a rapid test but you're guaranteed to get really good results that way,” Kelsey said. It'll have PCR testing, with results coming back typically within 24 hours. The drive-thru site is run by Gravity Diagnostics. And also this is for the community, in general, the schools, K through 12, they're going back to school so we're trying to prevent any outbreaks to allow them to go school every day,” Kelsey said. “We're trying to relieve the hospital and some of these clinics to release some of their testing needs so they can focus on other things. Clinical specialist Jordan Kelsey said their hope for this new location is to take away stress from other testing locations in the area. Noon at 224 Southtown Drive in Danvilleīoyle County has a new COVID-19 testing site. Danville testing site will be open seven days a week, from 7 a.m.The drive-thru site is run by Gravity Diagnostics.The testing site will conduct PCR testing, with results coming back in typically 24 hours.Danville has a new COVID-19 testing site.

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