Culvert project

Crews from Ohio Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) Warren County Highway Maintenance Facility will undertake a culvert replacement project on Ohio 48 later this month, requiring a fourday closure of the route.

During the week of May 26, Ohio 48 will be closed immediately south of its junction with Murdock-Goshen and Cozadale-Murdock roads for crews to replace a deteriorated pipe at the 1.88mile marker.

The closure will go into effect at approximately 7 a.m. today and it will remain in place until 3 p.m. Friday, May 29, or until all work is completed. While the route is closed, motorists will be detoured by way of U.S. Route 22, Interstate 275 and Ohio 28 in Clermont County.

For more information, visit www.OHGO.com.

CONTRIBUTED for some of its patient service centers to accommodate the growing demand for both COVID-19 antibody testing and traditional lab testing.

CompuNet’s new Saturday hours are 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Middletown at Atrium Medical Center. CompuNet also offers Sunday hours, 8 a.m. to noon, at Atrium.

To learn more about hours and locations, visit https://www.compunetlab.com/locations.

To protect patients from possible COVID-19 exposure, CompuNet Patient Service Centers are taking the following precautions: Both staff members and patients are required to wear a mask, and social distancing is observed within the waiting area, with limitations on the number of patients in a waiting room at a time. When a waiting room becomes busy, a patient may be asked to wait in their car until called in. Patients are permitted to bring one adult companion to assist. Children under the age of 18 are not permitted unless they are the patient. Each room is being cleaned after every patient visit and hand sanitizer is being made available to patients.

CompuNet began offering COVID-19 IgG Antibody testing to health care providers on April 27 and then opened up testing to the public the following week. If a patient believes they may have had COVID-19 at some time in recent months, they may want to consider being tested for the antibodies. CompuNet offers three options for testing:

1) An individual can request that their physician order the COVID19 IgG antibody test;

2) Visit a CompuNet Patient Service Center without a doctor’s order and request the test;

3) Make an appointment online at https://www.compunetlab. com/covid-19-antibody-orders. html for antibody test collection at the Premier Health Collection Center at UD Arena. If an individual wants to order the antibody test without a doctor’s order, the cost is $65.

To visit a CompuNet Patient Service Center for antibody testing, no appointment is needed. The cost is $65, payable by check or credit card and is available for individuals 18 years of age or older. CONTRIBUTED