New Alternative care site built in St. Louis County

Governor Mike Parson announced this month that Missouri was moving forward with the first alternate care site. It’s at a hotel in Florissant, a St. Louis suburb. Construction began last weekend, and state Department of Public Safety Director Sandy Karsten has announced that it’s opened.

Karsten says ” … there are three patients at this alternate care site being cared for by the medical group from the 139th Missouri Air Wing ”

The site is a hotel, which was converted into the care facility. Governor Mike Parson says if necessary, the Florissant site could accommodate more than one hundred people and be used to house those who test positive for COVID-19 with mild or no symptoms. It could also be used to house those exposed to COVID-19 and identified and referred by health care professionals as requiring treatment but not hospitalization.

Parson says since Missouri is under a federal disaster declaration, FEMA is paying 75 percent of construction costs and the costs of caring for the patients there.