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Coalition
of City,
3
Counties,
3 Health
Systems
Open
Regional
Drive Up
COVID-19
testing
site
•
Testing
will
begin
Friday
at Joe
Dumars
Field
House at
Michigan
State
Fairgrounds
•
Site
will
have
capacity
to
conduct
400
tests
per day,
14,400
over
six-week
period
•
Appointments
to be
taken
starting
today,
testing
begins
Friday
•
Doctor's
prescription
required
to be
tested
DETROIT,
MI -
Four
hundred
people
per day
will be
able to
start
getting
tested
on
Friday
for
COVID-19
at a new
drive up
testing
center
thanks
to a
unique
coalition
of
Southeastern
Michigan
governments
and
health
care
systems:
The
Coronavirus
Community
Care
Network
is made
up of
the
following:
•
Detroit
Medical
Center
• Henry
Ford
Health
System
•
Trinity
Health
Systems
• City
of
Detroit
• Macomb
County
•
Oakland
County
• Wayne
County
Testing
will be
done
Monday-Saturday,
7 AM – 6
PM at
the
State
Fairgrounds
in
Detroit,
starting
this
Friday.
The
samples
will be
taken by
staff of
the
three
health
care
systems
from
residents
who will
remain
their
cars at
the
Drive
Through
site.
The
tests of
the
samples
will be
run by
Bioreference
Labs of
New
Jersey
under a
contract
with the
City of
Detroit
to
process
up to
500
samples
a day
for the
next 6
weeks.
Doctors
Order
and
Appointment
Needed
for
Tests -
Quicken
Loans
Running
Call
Center
In
order to
be
tested,
patients
need to
first
get a
doctor’s
order
and then
either
the
doctor
or the
patient
can call
313-230-0505
to
schedule
the
Drive
Through
appointment.
Dan
Gilbert
has
donated
the call
center
operations
of
Quicken
Loans
and Rock
Connections
to
handle
the
appointments,
which
can be
made
from 9AM
until 7
PM,
seven
days a
week.
Fifty
cars an
hour
will be
scheduled
so there
will be
no back
up and
long
lines.
Quicken
Loans
also
supported
with the
development
of the
scheduling
technology
and
other
logistical
support
for the
testing
site, as
well as
providing
tents
and
other
assets
from the
Rocket
Mortgage
Classic.
"As
Detroit’s
largest
employer,
we
recognize
our
critical
role in
serving
the
members
of our
community,”
said Jay
Farner,
CEO of
Quicken
Loans.
“We
cannot
think of
a better
way to
expend
our
resources
and
energy
than
participating
in the
testing
process.
This is
a time
for the
public
and
private
sectors
to come
together
for a
common
goal."
Jamie
Dimon
and
JPMorgan
Chase
Recruited
Bioreference
Labs
The
State of
Michigan
is
desperately
short of
Covid-19
testing
capacity,
which
prevented
the
Drive
Through
testing
from
starting
earlier.
With the
assistance
of JP
Morgan
Chase,
the City
of
Detroit
was able
to
contract
with
Bioreference
Labs on
New
Jersey
to
perform
500
tests a
day,
greatly
expanding
Michigan’s
capacity.
Test
results
will be
received
within 5
days.
Community
Partners
The
testing
process
was made
possible
by:
•
$300,000
from the
Community
Foundation
of
Southeast
Michigan
•
6,000
test
kits
from Dr.
Roberto
Romero
and NIH
Perinatal
Research
Branch
Health
Care
Partnership
The
health
care
partnership
came
together
when
Wright
Lassiter
of Henry
Ford
Health
System,
Ben
Carter
of
Trinity
Health
and Dr.
Audrey
Gregory
of DMC
decided
to join
forces
to move
thousands
of
patient
visits
for
tests
away
from
hospital
ERs and
other
patients
and move
them to
a safe,
efficient
testing
sites.
“It is
imperative
for us
to come
together
to fight
this
pandemic
and we
are
pleased
to offer
our
expertise
and
volunteers
for the
joint
effort,”
said
Wright
Lassiter
III,
President
and CEO,
Henry
Ford
Health
System.
“Having
built a
safe,
sustainable
drive-through
testing
site on
the
Henry
Ford
Hospital
campus
and each
of our
other
hospital
locations,
we know
how
critical
it is to
provide
alternative
resources
to
minimize
exposure
and keep
our
healthcare
employees
safe.”
“The
Detroit
Medical
Center
is
committed
to
providing
the
necessary
support
and
resources
to this
critical
community
effort
in the
fight
against
COVID-19,”
said
Audrey
Gregory,
RN,
Ph.D.,
CEO of
the
Detroit
Medical
Center.
“During
this
time of
uncertainty,
it’s
important
that the
community
knows
that all
health
care
providers
in our
region
are
working
together
to
protect
them and
provide
the care
they
expert
and
deserve.”
"St.
Joe's, a
member
of
Trinity
Health,
is
grateful
to Mayor
Duggan
for
instituting
this
testing
site,"
said Rob
Casalou,
President
and CEO,
Trinity
Health
Michigan.
"We want
to thank
our
colleagues
from the
DMC and
Henry
Ford,
and our
medical
group
Integrated
Health
Associates
(IHA),
who are
partnering
with us
to
deploy
staff to
this
site. It
truly
shows
the
impact
we can
have
when we
all come
together
when the
community
needs
us."
County
Partnerships
The
State
Fairgrounds
site is
expected
to be
the
first of
a set of
regional
sites
for
convenient
testing.
Wayne,
Oakland,
and
Macomb
County
Executives
and
Health
Officers
are
partnering
on this
first
site. As
more
testing
capacity
becomes
available
in the
coming
weeks,
the plan
is to
set up
additional
sites in
suburban
Wayne,
Oakland,
and
Macomb
counties.
“Uniting
as a
region
to
combat
the
spread
of this
virus is
critical.
Creative
partnerships
such as
this are
what
unite us
in the
fight,”
said
Macomb
County
Executive
Mark
Hackel.
“There
is no
question
there’s
a
critical
need for
additional
COVID-19
testing.
I
appreciate
Mayor
Duggan’s
leadership
in
helping
to bring
the
health
systems
together
to
increase
testing
capacity,”
said
Oakland
County
Executive
David
Coulter.
“This
new
testing
site at
the
State
Fairgrounds
provides
a
desperately
needed
increase
in the
region’s
testing
capacity,
and it
will
help
slow the
spread
of the
virus,”
said
Wayne
County
Executive
Warren
Evans.
“This is
a
regional
cooperation
at its
finest
and I
commend
Mayor
Duggan,
my
fellow
county
executives
and our
health
care
leaders
for
coming
together
so
quickly.
We must
act now
and we
are.”
Later
this
week,
the
three
county
executives
will
conduct
individual
Facebook
Live
events
to
explain
the
testing
process
and how
it works
to their
constituents.
Mayor
Mike
Duggan
thanked
each of
the
partners
who
worked
tirelessly
to stand
up this
testing
site in
a
remarkably
short
period
of time.
“This is
a time
when our
community
needed
leaders
to step
up and
each of
these
partners
and
supporters
have
worked
around
the
clock
for the
past
week and
a half
to bring
this
testing
site to
our
community,”
said
Mayor
Mike
Duggan.
“Adding
this
testing
capacity
will
allow us
to more
quickly
identify
who may
be
carrying
COVID-19
so we
can slow
its
spread
and
bring
about a
faster
end to
this
crisis.”
How
the CCCN
Drive-thru
testing
site
will
work
•
Between
March 27
and May
8, the
site
will
perform
14,400
tests,
which
will be
conducted
by
appointment
only,
based on
referrals
from
doctors.
•
During
this
six-week
period,
the site
will
operate
from 7
AM until
6 PM
Monday
thru
Saturday
starting
Friday,
March
27. It
will
operate
until
May 8.
•
The
entrance
will be
off of
W. State
Fair.
Who
can go
to the
CCCN
drive
thru
testing
site?
• Only
individuals
who have
received
a
testing
order
from
their
physician
and
scheduled
an
appointment
with the
CCCN
call
center
can get
tested.
•
COVID-19
testing
will be
available
to any
resident
of the
tri-county
region
(Wayne,
Oakland,
and
Macomb
County)
•
Individuals
who do
not have
an
appointment
and a
physician
order
will not
be
tested.
There
are two
ways a
person
can be
scheduled
for an
appointment:
1. A
physician
schedules
an
appointment
for a
patient
and
calls in
a
prescription
to the
call
center,
or,
2. An
individual
must
receive
a
written
prescription
from a
physician,
schedule
an
appointment
with the
call
center,
and
bring
their
prescription
to the
testing
location.
How
do I
schedule
an
appointment
with the
CCCN
call
center?
• Call
the CCCN
call
center
at
313-230-0505
to
schedule
your
drive-thru
testing
appointment.
Appointments
are
scheduled
up to
one week
in
advance.
• The
call
center
is open
Monday
through
Sunday
9am –
7pm.
• The
appointment
scheduling
process
for
physicians
includes:
1.
Patients
arrive
at their
doctor’s
office
presenting
COVID-19
symptoms.
2.
Doctor
evaluates
patient
for
COVID-19
and
determines
whether
the
patient
should
receive
testing.
3. If
the
doctor
determines
that
COVID-19
testing
is
needed,
the
doctor
writes a
prescription
for the
test.
4. While
the
patient
is still
present,
the
doctor’s
office
calls
the CCCN
call
center
with the
prescription
information
and
schedules
an
appointment
for the
patient
at the
drive
thru.
5. The
doctor’s
office
provides
the
patient
with
their
drive-thru
appointment
date,
time,
and
location
and
instructs
them to
bring
their
state
issued
or
another
form of
valid
ID.
•
The
appointment
scheduling
process
for an
individual
includes:
1.
Patients
arrive
at their
doctor’s
office
presenting
COVID-19
symptoms.
2.
Doctor
evaluates
patient
for
COVID-19
and
determines
whether
the
patient
should
receive
testing.
3. If
the
doctor
determines
that
COVID-19
testing
is
needed,
the
doctor
writes a
prescription
for the
test.
4. The
patient
calls
the CCCN
call
center
with the
written
prescription
information
and
schedules
an
appointment
at the
drive
thru.
5. The
patient
arrives
at the
drive-thru
appointment
with
state
issued
or
another
form of
valid ID
and the
written
prescription.
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