SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Carbon Health, a leading omnichannel healthcare provider, announced three new major COVID-19 testing sites in South San Francisco, California, as well as in Montgomery Township, NJ and Plainsboro Township, NJ. These community-based websites offer thousands of COVID-19 tests in areas that are seeing an increase in COVID-19 positivity rates due to the Omicron variant, at no additional cost.

Throughout the pandemic, Carbon Health has been at the forefront of patient care, partnering with cities across the country on public testing initiatives, including conducting more than 2.1 million COVID-19 tests and nearly 1.5 million vaccines. During December 2021 and January 2022, Carbon Health conducted nearly 4,000 tests per day and provided vital COVID-19 care at 100 clinics and through virtual appointments nationwide. For patients who test positive, Carbon Health offers its proprietary COVID Positive Care program, which provides access to comprehensive emergency and virtual care assessment, state-of-the-art clinical protocols, symptom trackers, device monitoring, and therapeutic modalities including symptom management and monoclonal antibody therapy.

Carbon Health works closely with public partners such as Montgomery Township and Plainsboro Township, New Jersey, and the City of South San Francisco, California to understand their unique needs to create a rapid and community-focused pandemic response. During the recent COVID-19 omicron surge, New Jersey communities have struggled to obtain rapid home tests by going to overcrowded emergency clinics and emergency rooms or receiving delayed PCR test results.

“Due to the incredible post-holiday demand for COVID-19 testing, we were looking for a reliable partner to host COVID-19 testing clinics, and Carbon Health more than delivered,” said Devangi Patel, health officer for Montgomery Township Health Department. Carbon Health was able to mobilize its resources at short notice and expand its capacity to run clinics in a matter of days. They took the time to understand our agency and our needs, and helped us provide a much-needed resource to our community around town.”

“We are at a critical juncture in the fight against the pandemic where the Omicron variant is spreading rapidly and is highly transmissible,” said Dr. Chirag Patel, Regional Clinical Director at Carbon Health. “At our nine clinics in central New Jersey, 30% of COVID-19 tests are currently positive, up from 8% in early December. Each test helps our community make more informed decisions to get kids back to school, keep businesses running, and end the surge.”

“Carbon Health is uniquely positioned to help with our expertise and experience across a variety of areas, including rapidly mobilizing healthcare teams to set up large-scale testing sites, partnering with local community governments, and our ability to flexibly scale down and scale up at these Efforts to succeed are based on local needs,” said Nita Sommers, Chief Growth Officer at Carbon Health.

Information about the test location:

Parish of Montgomery, NJ – Now open

• Location: Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products, Inc (testing will be conducted in the North Building lobby)

• Address: 199 Grandview Rd, Skillman, NJ 08558

• Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8:00am – 3:00pm ET

• Type of test: PCR

• Processing time: 24-48 hours

• Register here for an appointment or available walk-ups

Plainsboro Township, NJ – Now open

• Location: Princeton Alliance Church

• Address: 20 Schalks Crossing Rd, Plainsboro Township, NJ 08536

• Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET

• Type of test: PCR

• Processing time: 24-48 hours

• Register here for an appointment or available walk-ups

South San Francisco, CA – Now open

• Address: 616 Linden Ave, South San Francisco, CA 94080

• Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PT, extended hours beginning Jan. 24

• Type of test: PCR

• Processing time: 24-48 hours

• Register here for an appointment or available walk-ups

About carbon health

Carbon Health is a leading national healthcare provider with a mission to make quality healthcare accessible to all. Carbon Health provides primary and emergency care to nearly two-thirds of the United States. Leveraging its unique technology platform, Carbon Health offers its patients omnichannel care designed to meet patients where they are by delivering them through a variety of access points, including in-person clinics, virtual care and remote patient monitoring (RPM ). Carbon Health also focuses on value-based care and other value-added services for employers, health plans, health systems and other ecosystem partners.

Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, Carbon Health is backed by Atreides, Blackstone Horizon, Dragoneer Investment Group, Brookfield Technology Partners (BTP), Fifth Wall, Lux Capital, Silver Lake Waterman, DCVC and Builders VC. To access Carbon Health, download the app (iTunes or Google Play) or visit carbonhealth.com.

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Montgomery County’s Director of Health became a household name during the coronavirus pandemic, but now Dr. Travis Gayles is preparing for the next step in his career.

Gayles said the past 18 months have been like an “ongoing marathon”.

“I’m not a marathon runner, but I can imagine that is how it feels, especially when you see the end and the finish line,” he said.

In less than two weeks, Gayles will be leaving the Dennis Avenue Health Center for the last time, leaving the county to end the race without his most prominent public health voice.

Gayles joins Hazel Health, a San Francisco-based startup providing telehealth services to K-12 schools.

“As a pediatrician, as someone who has researched and worked in the field my entire career, I couldn’t have asked for a better opportunity to continue this particular mission, but at the same time you are exhausted,” he said.

Gayles first found out about COVID-19 in late 2019. The county had no confirmed cases, but that changed within a few weeks.

Gayles and his team of doctors, epidemiologists, and other public health experts tried to fend off an invisible enemy, but soon found themselves caught in a health system full of injustices.

“Many of the health decisions we have had to make have been compounded by long-standing inequalities and inequalities in systems,” said Gayles.

The public health response to address these inequalities often brings the county into conflict with Maryland Governor Larry Hogan.

“I stand by the choices we make because they are based on data and science to keep our residents safe,” said Gayles.

“Our job is to say what is healthiest for communities and what keeps people safe,” he said.

Communicating these bitter truths during the weekly COVID-19 briefings made Gayles a target of racist and homophobic abuse.

“You develop thick skin and brush off a lot of things, but you get to a point where you think, we’re trying to protect people as best we can,” he said.

Gayles is joining a number of public health officials who are leaving their jobs across the country. He said the ongoing politicization of the pandemic is pushing many of them to exit.

Gayles said lessons still need to be learned to better prepare for the next pandemic.

“When a pandemic highlights and draws attention to these differences, this is the time to address them,” he said. “This is the time for this work, and if we don’t, we will regret it in five, 10, 20 years.”

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