In-Person Visits
The physicians at Breast Care Specialists are closely monitoring the coronavirus (COVID-19) OUTBREAK VIA THE Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH), and the World Health Organization (WHO). The virus and protocols around it are changing quickly, and we are working to mitigate any impact on our providers, staff, and patients.
We ask all patients and their guests who have a fever, symptoms of respiratory infection, or have been exposed to a person with the coronavirus, the flu, or any other communicable disease to call and reschedule their appointments or surgeries.
Although we understand and empathize with child care challenges, we are asking that you do not bring children to your appointment. In an effort to protect the health and wellbeing of both our staff and patients, we ask that you make other arrangements for your children.
We also require all patients that are coming to our offices at Northside and Alpharetta to come with their own face covering. Please see the CDC recommendation in light of new evidence, CDC recommends wearing cloth face covering in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain especially in areas of significant community-based transmission. This would include our offices. Asking our patients to comply will protect all of our patients and our staff. If a patient cannot comply with the CDC recommendations, then we ask that they reschedule. If a patient comes to the appointment without the face covering, we will have to turn them away and ask them to reschedule. Thank you in advance for your care and consideration in regards to our patients and staff.
Additionally, each patient will be screened before entering our facilities with their temperature taken and a questionnaire with the following question: Have you been tested for the Coronavirus (Covid-19)?
- 1) If you have tested positive for Covid-19 or have been instructed to quarantine (due to symptoms or exposure even with a negative test), please do not schedule until 14 days after your quarantine period has ended.
- Please bring a copy of any Covid-19 test results to confirm date of testing.
- 2) If you have been asymptomatic and had a negative Covid-19 to confirm negativity (obtained for suspected exposure, visiting elderly, health care worker, etc) and you remain asymptomatic, then it is fine to schedule.
- Please bring a copy of any Covid-19 test to confirm date of testing.
- 3) Please do not schedule if you have fever, recent travel, or respiratory symptoms consistent with suspected Covid-19.
- Please wait 14 days after symptoms have subsided or after travel to schedule an appointment.
*** Quarantine period is currently defined by the CDC as 10 days since symptoms started AND 3 days since recovery (no fever and improvement in respiratory symptoms).
