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14 • JUNE 2020 - Senior Voice of Citrus County
14 • JUNE 2020 - Senior Voice of Citrus County
Quickly Seek
Care in a Medical
Emergency
Local hospitals are urging the
community to seek emergency care
when needed – without delay. If you
experience a medical emergency such
as stroke symptoms or chest pain that
may be a heart attack, a timely response
will support the best possible outcome.
“Floridians have been understandably
worried as they watch the news of
hospitals affected by a large influx of
COVID-19 patients, particularly in New appendicitis did not go away because
York and other epicenters around the
country,” said Mityanand Ramnarine,
M.D., Emergency Room medical
director for Citrus Memorial Hospital.
“I fear that people of our community are departments are absolutely safe for
not willing to come to the emergency
department out of concern over
COVID-19.
“Along those lines, the cases that we
are seeing tend to be more critically
sick, or of higher levels of emergency
than we would normally expect,” he
added. “Especially when dealing with
time sensitive diseases such as heart
attack, stroke and sepsis, this poses a
TESTING
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ed to wear face coverings while
around other people in public.
There are also additional testing
sites in Citrus County:
• Langley Health Services at 151
E. Highland Blvd. Suite 151.
Staff can be contacted at 352-
419-5760.
• Quick Care Med: Schedule a
telemedicine appointment by
visiting https://www.quick-
caremed.com/telemedicine/.
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too long before seeking treatment for
their emergency medical conditions,”
said Roderick Bennett, M.D., Bayfront Reaching over 28,000 seniors each
Health Emergency Department Medical
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disease control and our emergency
medical treatment.”
Local hospitals have implemented
precautions to protect patients and This is where the Senior Voice
staff, including screening all patients
for symptoms and risk factors, and Hernando edition is distributed.
placing any individuals with suspected
or confirmed COVID-19 in a separate
area. Cleaning and disinfection are
emphasized in caregiving areas and
throughout the facilities.
Staff can be contacted at 844- Pine Island Brooksville
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You can find this information on Hernando Spring Hill Spring Lake
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Masaryktown
COVID-19 Data and Surveillance Masaryktown
Dashboard: https://floridahealth-
covid19.gov/. Scroll down and Reaching over 30,000 seniors each
click on “see dashboard,” select
Citrus County at the top of the and every month.
page and click on “Florida Testing”
at the bottom. This is information
is updated once per day. Call now for advertising
For more information about information. 352-277-6309
DOH-Citrus, visit www.Citrus-
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Twitter at @FLHealthCitrus.