Elmore Community Hospital opens COVID testing site

Raegan Vaughan, right, said it is not unusual for her to be conducting tests on 20-30 samples at one time.

More than 200 area residents visited Elmore Community Hospital’s COVID-19 drive-thru testing clinic on Tuesday, Sept. 7.

Most mornings, vehicles spill out of the hospital’s parking lot and into the street as residents wait their turn to get their nose swabbed, said the hospital’s marketing director Heidi Smith.