Downtown Tucson Partnership’s ‘Purple People’ test negative for COVID-19
Downtown Tucson Partnership’s Clean and Safe Team are COVID-19-free after undergoing tests provided by El Rio Health, the organization announced Tuesday. All 23 members of the group were tested last Thursday. The team, affectionately known as the “Purple People,” provide security and maintenance services to the Business Improvement District downtown. The group also acts as […]
El Rio nurse teams testing Tucson’s most vulnerable for COVID-19
By Jasmine Ramirez | May 5, 2020 at 5:28 PM MST – Updated May 5 at 5:28 PM TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) – Teams of nurses at El Rio Health are voluntarily going to nursing homes, homeless shelters and other facilities to test Tucson’s most vulnerable populations for COVID-19. “The teams are willing to go above and […]
COVID-19 testing blitz starts in Pima County
TUCSON – Today was the first Saturday of the three-week statewide testing blitz to fight COVID-19. The goal is to test as many Arizonans as possible to combat the coronavirus outbreak. Three organizations in Pima County are participating in the testing blitz, Banner Health, Walgreens and El Rio Health. Three of El Rio Health’s locations […]
Arizona coronavirus news in brief
El Rio to conduct COVID-19 testing for ‘blitz’ AZPM, May 1 El Rio Health will conduct COVID-19 testing at three Tucson locations during the state’s three-weekend “testing blitz” that starts Saturday. The announcement comes after Walgreen’s and Banner Health were criticized for setting up testing locations that were inconvenient for people in Tucson’s central and […]
