Mercer Medicine provides free COVID-19 testing to homeless

As availability for COVID-19 testing increases, medical professionals are reaching out to more people.

Safety protocols ... by increased cleaning in all facilities... and offering paid time off to employees ...who are ill ... for up to four weeks.

As more covid-19 testing becomes available, medical professionals are reaching out to more people.

41 nbc's rashaad vann has more on how middle georgia's homeless population got the chance to get tested.

Mercer medicine along with depaul usa's daybreak day provided free testing for the homeless.

Pitts: it has been going on really well, it has been very organized, in fact, when we arrived there were already people here, daybreak staff have worked with their population staff to get people here.

Miller: we want to make sure we reach out to everyone, we don't want them to feel like they are not apart of the community because they are a tremendous part of our community and they need to know that they do matter.

According to a news release, several non-profit organizations and groups granted funds and gifts.

To enable ...mercer medicine to test the homeless.

Sullivan: this is a sign of that the sum is greater then the parts.

Non of us could have done this by ourselves and it is such a blessing because the homeless coalition identified this as a need.

Director sister theresa sullivan says the event has helped more people at daybreak know their status who are limited to assistance and resources.

Sullivan: it's critical for all of us, to be able to have these services but particularly with our brothers and sisters who are homeless because they live so close together, we've been working really hard to educate people about covid and try to prevent