{"id":37232,"date":"2013-10-03T20:46:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T00:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=37232"},"modified":"2013-10-03T20:46:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T00:46:20","slug":"mmdhd-132","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/mmdhd-132\/","title":{"rendered":"TB skin test shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restricting TB testing until further notice<!--more--><br \/>\nDue to a nationwide shortage of tuberculin (TB) testing serum, the Mid-Michigan District Health Department (MMDHD) is restricting TB testing until further notice.<br \/>\nEffective October 1, 2013 MMDHD will only be administering the test to individuals who are deemed high risk and live in Clinton, Gratiot and Montcalm counties.<br \/>\n&#8220;Individuals requesting a TB test will be screened for their level of risk by one of our Public Health Nurses,&#8221; said Sarah Doak, MMDHD Communicable Disease Supervisor. &#8220;Those deemed high risk will be given the test while all others will be asked to wait.&#8221;<br \/>\nThose who are unable to wait because they are required to get the test before starting school or a new job should contact their primary care physician and request a blood test or chest X-ray.<br \/>\nClients who wish to be screened or have questions may contact MMDHD at:<br \/>\nClinton County: Becky Stoddard, R.N. at 989-227-3111<br \/>\nGratiot County: Lisa Mikesell, R.N. at 989-875-1019<br \/>\nMontcalm County: Laura Grosskopf, R.N. at 989-831-3615<br \/>\nThe shortage is expected to last at least until the end of October.<br \/>\nFor additional information, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmdhd.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.mmdhd.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restricting TB testing until further notice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}