Gov. Andy Beshear announced Wednesday that the phased restart of Kentucky’s economy will begin Monday with a segment of the healthcare services industry.
He said initially the easing of restrictions will allow for diagnostic and radiology testing, as well as non-urgent, emergent, in-person office and ambulatory visits.
“We are very close to coming to a consensus and an agreement in being able to put out guidelines for the gradual reopening of many of our hospital and healthcare services,” Beshear said. “We will be moving from this phase to others. Healthcare is a good and important place to start some of our reopening.”
The Governor said the phased healthcare services reopening is the first under the Healthy at Work initiative he introduced Tuesday to help businesses reopen safely when the time is right.
The initiative set out public health benchmarks for reopening Kentucky’s economy. These benchmarks closely follow the White House’s Guidelines for Reopening America.
Beshear said a foundational basis for safely reopening the economy requires a massive scaling up of testing capacity in the Commonwealth.
Testing efforts have ramped up across the state over the last week and will continue to do so going forward. A temporary testing site at Owensboro Community & Technical College will be open for three days next week.
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