CONWAY — Memorial Hospital will move asymptomatic and pre-operative COVID-19 testing to its drive-up location outside the emergency department beginning Thursday, Nov. 5.
Previously, these tests were performed in the upper parking lot of the hospital’s outpatient physical therapy building.
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