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Division of Quality Assurance: Notifications & Updates |
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Attn: Nursing Home Providers
COVID-19 Testing Tips
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) would like to remind facilities of their COVID-19 testing lab contacts and testing procedures. There has been an increase in testing recently, which has resulted in many rejected samples. To increase the chance of successful testing, please do the following:
- Include the FULL name, date of birth, and the date and time of collection on each sample and requisition;
- Check that samples have matching information on both the requisition form and the sample label;
- Ship samples the same day.
Please contact your lab partner below if you need more detailed information.
Testing supplies
Ordering of testing supplies, based on your county positivity rate, can be placed through the ordering website.
If you are using BinaxNow rapid antigen tests, results must be reported in the Wisconsin Electronic Disease Surveillance System WEDSS (labs will report PCR test results).
Questions
If you have questions regarding this information, please contact the COVID Testing Task Force at WICovidTest@wi.gov.
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