Empower Clinics Inc has announced the launch of four new coronavirus (COVID-19) testing locations across Dallas from subsidiary Kai Medical Laboratory LLC.
The Vancouver-based integrated healthcare company said Kai’s new testing sites offer both RT-PCR and Rapid Antigen tests, and are located across Dallas, Denton, and Collin counties that represent a significant portion of the nearly 8 million population of the Dallas metroplex.
The locations are open seven days per week, and will begin seeing patients on February 14, 2022.
"Testing is critical to keeping people safe and businesses open, and the new sites help ensure that testing is widely accessible," Empower CEO Steven McAuley said in a statement. "The new sites, located in accessible community locations, will ensure that more people in the Dallas area have convenient access to this key healthcare service."
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Kai Medical is approved to process a variety of medical billing in the US including Medicare, Medicade, and CARES Act billing, providing access to testing services for both insured and uninsured patients.
"Kai Medical is proud to provide reliable, compliant, high-complexity laboratory COVID-19 and Influenza A/B testing solutions to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex," stated Kai Medical President Yoshi Tyler.
According to Empower, the new testing sites are located at these four locations:
- CityLine Business Centre, 2050 N. Plano Road, Suite 700 Richardson, Texas 75082.
- New Beginnings Church, 1569 W. Main Street, Lewisville, TX 75067.
- Trinity Basin Preparatory, 2524 W. Ledbetter Drive, Dallas, TX 75233
- Cross Church, 1100 Dallas Drive, Suite 106 Denton, TX 76205
The company said all four locations are open from Monday to Saturday from 7 am to 7 pm. On Sunday, the sites work from 1 pm to 6 pm.
"Empower and its wholly-owned companies share the vision of a world where all people have access to an integrated healthcare experience." said McAuley. "Kai Medical contributes to this goal by performing premium services from our high complexity COLA and CLIA-accredited laboratory, and now has expanded its reach with the addition of new testing sites."
Empower is aggressively growing its clinical and digital presence across North America.
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