Women’s Healthcare of New England is seeing patients and actively screening each patient to ensure they do not expose our office or patient community to any illness. If you have a medical emergency, please do not show up at our office or at the hospital, but instead call ahead and find out the recommended course of action. Following appropriate guidelines and practicing proper technique will benefit both patients and clinicians and better prevent the further spread of the COVID-19 virus. The most important thing to do is to remain calm and think clearly. Key guidelines to stay safe: • Wear a mask • Limit your interactions, and keep a 6 foot distance from others. • Wash your hands (for at least 20 seconds) often throughout the day • Don’t touch your face • Keep surfaces clean These steps will help to reduce the spread of the virus and hopefully prevent further exposure in uninfected individuals. On a larger scale, the government’s response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is constantly evolving, we recommend that you stay up-to-date on information from verified sources. Learn more online from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html State of Connecticut https://portal.ct.gov/Coronavirus. By phone, you may contact 1-800-CDC-INFO, call 2-1-1, or text “CTCOVID” to 898211 for more information. To receive updates about the virus and how the government is responding to it, you may subscribe to the CDC’s Subscription Service https://www.cdc.gov/Other/emailupdates/.