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You are here: Home / FEATURED POSTS / HCHD to Offer No Appointment and Walk-Up COVID-19 Testing at Riverfront Parkway Site

HCHD to Offer No Appointment and Walk-Up COVID-19 Testing at Riverfront Parkway Site

April 23, 2020 By Dick Cook and Contributed Article 0 Comments

The Hamilton County Health Department is changing the way they operate the Riverfront Parkway COVID-19 testing site to make it more accessible to anyone seeking testing. The new changes are that no appointment is necessary and there will be an option for walk-up service. The drive-through option will still be available and making an appointment through the Health Department will make the testing process faster for the client. The Riverfront Parkway testing site will operate the next two weekends, April 25-26 and May 2-3.

“These changes to the way we will operate our Riverfront Parkway site are making COVID-19 testing as simple and as accessible as possible to our residents, especially for those close by in the walkable communities that do not have transportation,” says Health Department Administrator Becky Barnes, “We positioned this site to be able to offer testing in these communities.”

The existing Bonnyshire COVID-19 testing site will continue to operate Monday-Friday, 9 AM-12 PM, by appointment only, and as a drive-through only.

To make an appointment at either site, call the Health Department at 209-8393. No physician referral is needed and one does not need to be symptomatic for testing. The cost is free.

Bonnyshire Testing Center; 7460 Bonnyshire Drive; Monday-Friday Only- 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.. Open to the public with appointment from the Health Department. Call 423-209-8393. No physician referral needed. Do not have to have symptoms.

Riverfront Testing Center; 1620 Riverfront Pkwy; Saturday and Sunday only from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Open to the public with appointment from the Health Department. Call 423-209-8393. No physician referral needed. Do not have to have symptoms.

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About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.

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