ICC Alternate Site 04/14/2020

If needed, itawamba community college stands ready to help recovering covid-19 patients

Centered if needed, itawamba community college stands ready to help recovering covid-19 patients.

Icc says it will serve as an alternate care site.

The goal of opening a building on the fulton campus would be to free up 100 hospital beds.

Patients would be at the end of the recovery process from the coronavirus.

Medical workers would be housed in dorms. icc says the site was chosen, in part, due to its close location to tupelo medical facilities.

Discussions with the state started last week.

"with the understanding that5 this is a contingency to a contingency.

So, there's no guarentee that this space will ever be used, but we do have to do some prep work that we have to do in case they need to be stood up as quickly as possible."

Plans are already in place to disinfect any buildings that could be used in this plan.