What you should know:
1. The health system is using its outpatient surgery center in Ann Arbor, Mich., as a testing site.
2. Saint Joseph also established sites in Livingston, Oakland and Livonia, Mich.
3. The sites are only testing patients if they meet CDC and state testing criteria that includes having a fever above 100 degrees and a cough or shortness of breath.
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