What you should know:
1. The hospital encourages its patients to undergo their procedure at Waterbury-based Naugatuck Valley Surgery Center.
2. The center was closed due to the pandemic, but administrators still put the center through a deep-clean and implemented a series of precautionary screening measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
3. Saint Mary’s is performing procedures on its main campus when they can’t be performed in a surgery center. The health system is also performing outpatient cardiac diagnostic testing at its West Main Street Cardiac Diagnostic Center in Waterbury.
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