{"id":115609,"date":"2023-01-17T19:59:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T00:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=115609"},"modified":"2023-01-17T19:59:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T00:59:33","slug":"closure-of-one-walk-in-covid-testing-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=115609","title":{"rendered":"Closure of one walk-in COVID testing site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lamont McClure, the Northampton County DCED, Emergency Management Services and Lehigh Valley Hospital-Coordinated Health Allentown Hospital (LVH-CHA) announce that one of the walk-in COVID-19 testing sites will close on January 20, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The site at 2300 Highland Avenue, Bethlehem, PA 18020 will close for testing after January 20th. Walk-in COVID-19 tests for County residents and employees are still available at:<\/p>\n<p>Palmer Township Express Care<br \/>\n3701 Corriere Road, Suite 14<br \/>\nEaston, PA 18045<br \/>\nMonday \u2013 Friday: 8AM \u2013 8PM<br \/>\nSaturday \u2013 Sunday: 8AM \u2013 8PM<\/p>\n<p>A Physician\u2019s order is not required for a COVID-19 test. Only residents of Northampton County will have the cost covered by the County if they do not have health coverage. All testing will be through Health Network Lab Medicine unless insurance requires an alternate laboratory. Participants should bring a photo ID and their insurance card, if they have one, with them to the testing site.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCOVID-19 is still causing illness in our communities,\u201d says Lamont McClure. \u201cI want to thank our partners at LVH-CHA for their continued dedication in making these testing services available to Northampton County residents and employees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The walk-in testing center is a collaboration between the Northampton County Department of Community and Economic Development, Emergency Management Services and LVH-CHA.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 vaccinations and boosters are available by appointment for those six-months-and-older at the LVH-Hecktown Oaks Hospital Campus, 3780 Hecktown Road, Easton, PA between 10AM and 6PM on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month.<\/p>\n<p>To schedule an appointment call the hotline 833-584-6283. The hotline is open Monday-Friday from 8:30AM-5:30PM.<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nBecky Bartlett<br \/>\nDeputy Director of Administration<br \/>\nNorthampton County Government Center<br \/>\n669 Washington Street<br \/>\nEaston, PA 18042<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/\">https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lamont McClure, the Northampton County DCED, Emergency Management Services and Lehigh Valley Hospital-Coordinated Health Allentown Hospital (LVH-CHA) announce that one of the walk-in COVID-19 testing sites will close on January &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=115609\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Closure of one walk-in COVID testing site<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,5738,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-northampton-county","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Northampton-Covid-nc.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}