St. David’s CareNow® Urgent Care teams with American Airlines to offer COVID-19 rapid testing for travelers

https://stdavids.com/AUSTIN, Texas—St. David’s CareNow® Urgent Care is now offering convenient pre-flight COVID-19 rapid testing to American Airlines guests traveling to 13 international destinations throughout Central America and the Caribbean, as well as domestic destinations, including Hawaii. The partnership provides convenient COVID-19 testing to the carrier’s guests at 15 CareNow clinics across Central Texas. St. David’s CareNow Urgent Care locations in Central Texas are offering COVID-19 pre-travel testing for American Airlines passengers traveling to:

  • Aruba
  • Nassau, Bahamas
  • Bogota, Colombia
  • Roatan, Honduras
  • Belize
  • San Salvador, El Salvador
  • Guatemala
  • San Pedro Sula, Honduras
  • Hawaii, United States
  • Santiago, Chile
  • London, England
  • St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
  • Montego Bay, Jamaica
  • Tegucigalpa, Honduras

St. David’s CareNow Urgent Care locations can administer on-site rapid tests or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) lab send-out tests. Rapid test results are ready in less than 15 minutes. Travelers can visit any Central Texas location for COVID-19 tests prior to their trip to ensure results will be delivered within the travel destination’s required timeline. The cost for testing is $139.

Travelers may schedule an appointment by utilizing Web Check-In® at CareNow.com and selecting one of three options:

  • American Airlines Rapid Test (Hawaii) specifically for Hawaii passengers due to state-specific form requirements
  • American Airlines Rapid (International) for approved destinations that allow a rapid COVID-19 test
  • American Airlines PCR lab send out (International) for approved destinations that require a laboratory send-out COVID-19 test

After completing a rapid test, patients will receive a physical and electronic copy of their test results before leaving the clinic. Patients taking a PCR lab send-out test will receive an electronic-only copy of results. Travelers should provide proof of their test during check-in or via the VeriFLY app to show travel readiness based on completed COVID-19 requirements.

Visit AA.com for more information on local COVID-19 requirements and destinations served by American Airlines.

For more information about COVID-19 testing and other CareNow services, visit CareNow.com.
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St. David’s CareNow® Urgent Care
Since its founding in Dallas/Ft. Worth in 1993, CareNow® urgent care has been committed to providing high-quality family, urgent care and occupational medicine services. Open seven days a week and after hours, CareNow has over 140 locations nationwide providing convenient, quality and cost-effective care, 15 of which are located in Austin, Texas, and are owned by St. David’s HealthCare.

CareNow is part of HCA Healthcare. Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is one of the nation's leading providers of healthcare services, comprising 185 hospitals and approximately 1,800 sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers and physician clinics, in 21 states and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit CareNow.com or call (972) 745-7500. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

St. David’s HealthCare

St. David’s HealthCare includes eight of the area’s leading hospitals and is one of the largest health systems in Texas. The organization has been recognized with a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award—the nation’s highest presidential honor for performance excellence. St. David’s HealthCare is the fourth-largest private employer in the Austin area, with more than 10,500 colleagues across 169 sites of care.

St. David’s HealthCare is a unique partnership between hospital management company HCA Healthcare and two local non-profits—St. David’s Foundation and Georgetown Health Foundation. The proceeds from the operations of the hospitals fund the foundations, which, in turn, invest those dollars back into the community. Since the inception of St. David’s HealthCare in 1996, nearly $700 million has been given back to the community to improve the health and healthcare of Central Texans.

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July 1, 2021

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