In order to preserve personal protective equipment, Cody Regional Health is asking patients with respiratory-related issues to use its walk-in clinic between 8 and 10 a.m., every day.

“Every time our team attends to a respiratory-related patient, the procedures they go through to ‘don and doff’ is strenuous, and we are trying to not only preserve our team during this busy season, but also our PPE materials and equipment,” said Cody Regional Health Chief Ambulatory Officer Andrea McKay.

No appointment is needed to come to the walk-in clinic — located within the Cathcart Health Center at 424 Yellowstone Ave. — and patients will not be turned away. However, the clinic team is “pleading” with patients to do their best to come between 8 and 10 a.m. in order to manage respiratory patients in negative pressure rooms.

Respiratory clinic symptoms include: fever, cough, shortness of breath, diarrhea, loss of taste or sense of smell, nausea and vomiting and sore throat.

The respiratory clinic is not offering COVID-19 testing for those without symptoms at the site. Patients experiencing COVID-19 symptoms — including shortness of breath, chest pain, palpitations or other more serious symptoms — should go to the closest emergency room or call 911.

 For further questions about COVID-19 testing, visit www.codyregionalhealth.org or visit www.CDC.gov.