Local facility reports its COVID-19 tests all negative

Posted by John Small | Jun 3, 2020 | Main News

The administrator of a local senior citizens’ healthcare facility has reported that all of its residents and staff members have tested negative for the COVID-19 virus. Alandra Needham, administrator of Blue River Healthcare in Tishomingo, told the Sentinel on Monday that the facility’s staff and residents had recently undergone testing for the virus, administered by […]

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John Small

John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

Local facility reports its COVID-19 tests all negative

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