Updated April 29 with more testing locations
Missouri and Illinois health care providers are ramping up testing capacity in response to COVID-19 projections that the death toll would peak in mid-April.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker predicts the state will be able to test 10,000 people a day by then. The Missouri Health Department said it has the capacity for 2,000 tests a day, not including the capacity of private labs in the state.
To be eligible for a test, you first must be screened by the testing site by phone or online. You cannot bypass the screening, even if a doctor has recommended that you get testing. It is mandatory.
Tests are in limited supply, so health care workers are reserving them for people with coronavirus symptoms, including a cough or fever. The majority of these testing sites are not open to walk-in patients.
Testing is prioritized for:
- Hospitalized patients showing COVID-19 symptoms.
- Residents of retirement homes and other “congregate living facilities” that house individuals over 65 or people with chronic medical conditions.
- Any person who developed COVID-19 symptoms within 14 days of contact with someone who has either a confirmed or pending lab test.
Below is a map of coronavirus test sites in the St. Louis region. If a new one opens that you don’t see on our map, let us know at feedback@stlpublicradio.org.
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Testing sites in the region:
- Affinia Healthcare — 1717 Biddle St., St. Louis | 314-833-2777
- Affinia Healthcare — 6763 Page Ave., St. Louis | 314-833-2777
- Affinia Healthcare — 8960 Jennings Station Road, Jennings | 314-833-2777
- Affinia Healthcare — 4414 N. Florissant Ave., St. Louis | 314-833-2777
- Affinia Healthcare — 3930 S. Broadway, St. Louis | 314-833-2777
- Barnes-Jewish Hospital — 1 Barnes Jewish Hospital Plaza, St. Louis | 314-747-3000
- Betty Jean Kerr People’s Health Center — 11642 West Florissant Ave., Florissant | 314-627-5404
- BJC HealthCare Christian Hospital — 11133 Dunn Road, St. Louis | 314-653-5000
- BJC HealthCare — 4353 Clayton Ave., St. Louis | 314-747-8899
- CareSTL Health — 5471 Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, St. Louis | 314-367-5820
- CareSTL Health— 2425 N. Whittier St., St. Louis | 314-371-3100
- CareSTL Health-Ritenour High School — 9100 St. Charles Rock Road, St. Louis | 314-637-5820
- CareSTL Health-Riverview Gardens High School — 1218 Shepley Drive, St. Louis | 314-637-5820
- CareSTL Health-Fairview Elementary School — 7047 Emma Ave., St. Louis | 314-637-5820 (Opens May 6)
- John C. Murphy Health Center — 6121 N. Hanley Road, Berkeley | 314-615-0574
- Memorial Hospital — 4000 N. Illinois St., Swansea | 314-747-3046
- Mercy-GoHealth Urgent Care — 6167 Mid Rivers Mall Drive, St. Peters | 636-364-4990
- Mercy Hospital Washington — 6 Fairgrounds Road, Washington | 636-239-8000
- Mercy Virtual Care Center — 15740 S. Outer Forty Road, Chesterfield | 636-237-4200
- Phelps Health — 1000 W. 10th St., Rolla | 573-458-8899
- South County Health Center — 4580 S. Lindbergh Blvd., Sunset Hills | 314-615-0574
- SSM St. Joseph Hospital-Lake St. Louis — 100 Medical Plaza, Lake St. Louis | 636-625-5200
- SSM St. Joseph Hospital St. Charles — 300 First Capitol Drive, St. Charles | 636-947-5000
- SSM St. Louis University Hospital-South Campus — 1755 S. Grand Blvd., St. Louis | 314-256-3880
- St. Luke's Hospital — 2345 Dougherty Ferry, St. Louis | 314-966-9107
Additionally, people who see doctors and nurses at the more than two dozen Federally Qualified Health Centers in the St. Louis region can get tested there, but only after a pre-screening call and an appointment. Those centers provide primary health care services to predominantly low-income areas.
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