{"id":16456,"date":"2020-05-11T00:19:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T04:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=16456"},"modified":"2020-05-11T01:20:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T05:20:09","slug":"ocean-county-scales-back-covid-19-testing-hours-beginning-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2020\/05\/ocean-county-scales-back-covid-19-testing-hours-beginning-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean County Scales Back COVID-19 Testing Hours Beginning Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16174\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16174\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A drive-through testing facility at Ocean County College, March 30, 2020. (Photo: Ocean County)\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-180x135.jpg 180w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-238x178.jpg 238w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-681x511.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A drive-through testing facility at Ocean County College, March 30, 2020. (Photo: Ocean County)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ocean County\u2019s drive-through COVID-19 testing site at Ocean County College will reduce its hours beginning Monday, May 11, officials announced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have noticed the number of appointments being made for the site have been decreasing so we need to adjust the site schedule,\u201d said Ocean County Public Health Coordinator Daniel Regenye. \u201cThe college drive thru testing site has gone very smoothly and we review the operations there weekly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Testing will be done at the site by appointment on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The new hours will be from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day.<\/p>\n<p>The testing site opened last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are adjusting the hours at this time,\u201d Regenye said. \u201cShould we need to make changes again in the future we will do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The testing requirements remain the same:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You must be an Ocean County resident and have identification.<\/li>\n<li>You must have a healthcare practitioner script.<\/li>\n<li>You must make an online appointment at www.ochd.org.<\/li>\n<li>You must be symptomatic.<\/li>\n<li>Entry to the college site is from the Hooper Avenue entrance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any practitioner (including a nurse practitioner, advanced practice nurse, medical doctor, physician assistant, and others) who has \u201cprescriptive\u201d privileges in New Jersey can write a script for COVID testing \u2013 it does not necessarily have to be a physician.<\/p>\n<p>Prescriptions can obtained through telemedicine services offered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackensackmeridianhealth.org\/covid19\/\">Hackensack-Meridian Health<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.RWJBHtelemed.org\">RWJ Barnabas Health<\/a>. The Barnabas Health link requires the code RWJBH15.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2020\/05\/ocean-county-scales-back-covid-19-testing-hours-beginning-monday\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocean County\u2019s drive-through COVID-19 testing site at Ocean County College will reduce its hours beginning Monday, May 11, officials announced. \u201cWe have noticed the number of appointments being made for the site have been decreasing so we need to adjust the site schedule,\u201d said Ocean County Public Health Coordinator Daniel Regenye. \u201cThe college drive thru [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[24,3978,3991,705,505],"class_list":["post-16456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ocean-county","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-drive-through-testing","tag-occ","tag-ocean-county-college"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/occ-testing-2-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-4hq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}