Avera begins offering antibody tests
Avera is now offering antibody testing for COVID-19, a direct-to-consumer blood test available through Avera QuickLab locations and various Avera clinics.
Avera is now offering antibody testing for COVID-19, a direct-to-consumer blood test available through Avera QuickLab locations and various Avera clinics.
Did the pandemic cause you to postpone some medical appointments? It’s time to get back on track.
“The pandemic has been a game-changer for telehealth and Avera eCARE.” As demand for services has skyrocketed, “the genie is out of the bottle.”
Avera Health is making some changes to its leadership team as longtime executive Dick Molseed prepares to retire in July.
The statewide hydroxychloroquine trial, a collaboration among Sanford Health, Avera Health and Monument Health, and sponsored by the state of South Dakota, has been discontinued.
Sanford Health is partnering with the PGA Tour to conduct COVID-19 testing of players, caddies and essential personnel at upcoming tournaments.
Together, they serve half of U.S. states. And as COVID-19 showed, Sanford Health and the Good Samaritan Society are better together.
The first patient is scheduled to be admitted June 15 at the new Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital in southwest Sioux Falls.
Sioux Falls-based SAB Biotherapeutics has confirmed that its treatment in development specifically for the virus that causes COVID-19 has produced antibodies that neutralized the virus in a way that’s four times as potent as using plasma from recovered patients.
Avera Health is now allowing one visitor per patient per day in hospitals, surgery centers, emergency departments and clinics during regular visitor hours.