{"id":7437,"date":"2020-07-23T17:02:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T21:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=7437"},"modified":"2020-07-23T17:02:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T21:02:14","slug":"crow-indian-health-service-unit-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/2020\/07\/23\/crow-indian-health-service-unit-montana\/","title":{"rendered":"Crow Indian Health Service Unit (Montana)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Health Service has suspended most COVID-19 testing on the Crow Reservation in Montana, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CrowIHS\/posts\/3297847606928870?\">July 22, 2020, notice<\/a> on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The Montana State Lab is dealing with &#8220;high demand,&#8221; the notice states. As a result, only IHS patients exhibiting symptoms can obtain a coronavirus test.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;IHS has been asked to prioritize individuals exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms or those who have been in close contact with someone who has COVID-19, due to the test backlog,&#8221; the notice states.<\/p>\n<p>The directive affects thee facilities in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihs.gov\/billings\/healthcarefacilities\/crow\/\">Crow Service Unit<\/a>: the Crow\/Northern Cheyenne Hospital, the Lodge Grass Health Clinic and the Pryor Health Station.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CrowIHS\/posts\/3297847606928870<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Health Service has suspended most COVID-19 testing on the Crow Reservation in Montana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[672,137,14,94,618],"class_list":["post-7437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-institutions","tag-crow","tag-hhs","tag-ihs","tag-montana","tag-northern-cheyenne"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7438,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7437\/revisions\/7438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}