Hudson Alpha Testing

Huntsville Hospital is sending high priority patients to Hudson Alpha because test results can be determined within hours instead of days.

For them.

Huntsville hospital is now partnering with a non-profit to offer coronvirus testing that could get results back in just a hours.

Waay 31's rodneya ross joins us live with a look into how this private testing will alleviate some of the strain on the hospital system.

Huntsville hospital is now sending some patients to hudsonalpha to be tested for coronavirus to help them quickly determine who has the virus.

Huntsville hospital ceo david spillers said this allows them to quickly determine if patients have coronavirus.

Before they were waiting days just to get test results he explained this will take some strain off resources.

However, they are only sending high priority cases to the lab or ones that are taking up a lot of resources so they don't overwhelm the lab.

We've got 48 patients in our emergency departments that is all of our hospitals across north alabama that's not just huntsville main.

We've got 39 inpatients in all of our hospitals that we are waiting on test results.

Right now there's around 400 open beds and half of the respirators are being in the hospital system --at last check, more than one-thousand patients are being treated for different illnesses and injuries.

As for the testing at hudsonalpha -- we learned they are still required to report any positive cases to the state even though they're a private lab.

Reporting live in hsv, rr, waay