Dixie Regional Medical Center continues coronavirus preparations

Saturday multiple local agencies came together to help set up emergency tents onto the Dixie Regional Medical Center emergency room. The tent is a move towards preparedness for the new COVID-19 coronavirus.

“Thanks to community efforts, emergency department volumes at Intermountain Dixie Regional Medical Center remain average for this time of year,” DRMC director of communications Terri Draper said in a release.

“However, in an effort to remain prepared, today the hospital working with the Southwest Utah Public Health Department and other community preparedness agencies, deployed the Utah Department of Health’s BLU-MED Tent.

It is located near the emergency department in case it is needed in the future to extend emergency department capacity.”