Camp Hill, Pennsylvania-based Rite Aid has expanded COVID-19 testing criteria to include all individuals 18 and older exhibiting any of the following symptoms: fever, cough, shortness of breath, chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat and new loss of taste or smell.
Rite Aid currently offers self-swab testing sites at 25 store locations across eight states through its partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
“From the beginning of this crisis we made it our mission to support our communities and associates and to move as quickly as we can to provide solutions. I’m incredibly proud of our pharmacy teams—it’s their hard work that has allowed Rite Aid to ramp up testing so quickly, and enables us to expand testing criteria to include all adults exhibiting symptoms,” said Heyward Donigan, president and CEO of Rite Aid.
All of Rite Aid’s 25 self-testing sites are open from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. seven days a week and each site has the capacity to conduct approximately 400 tests daily through online appointments.
“More than 50 percent of our locations have a drive thru and all Rite Aid pharmacists know how to order and administer tests. We are committed to providing more access to COVID-19 self-testing sites and will continue working closely with HHS to explore how we can use our retail locations and expertise to further expand access, testing sites and forms of testing throughout the communities we serve,” Donigan said.
All Rite Aid drive-up COVID-19 self-testing sites utilize self-swab nasal tests overseen by Rite Aid pharmacists. Testing sites are located in store parking lots, and patients are required to remain in their vehicles from the time they arrive until the time they depart.
Patients are required to provide government issued identification, be at least 18 years old and need to pre-register online at riteaid.com in order to schedule a time slot for testing. An email address is required as part of the pre-registration process. The patient does not need to bring a prescription or lab order in order to be tested, since the lab order is part of the on-site process.
Rite Aid has partnered with Verily and will use its Baseline COVID-19 Program to provide screening, scheduling and return of results to participants at Rite Aid testing sites.
Rite Aid also selected BioReference Laboratories to provide COVID-19 laboratory testing to all drive-up locations with the goal of flattening the curve through accessible diagnostic testing.
Clinical oversight for the COVID-19 testing program is provided by PWNHealth, a national clinician network that enables safe and easy access to diagnostic testing.
Rite Aid COVID-19 testing sites are available at the following Rite Aid locations:
- Dover, Delaware: 200 Pharmacy Drive in Smyrna;
- Boise, Idaho: 3250 S. Eagle Road in Meridian;
- Detroit, Michigan: 46977 Romeo Plank Road in Macomb;
- Flint, Michigan: 9090 Miller Road in Swartz Creek;
- Grand Rapids, Michigan: 5995 Kalamazoo Ave., SE in Kentwood;
- Lansing, Michigan: 715 South Main St. in Eaton Rapids;
- Saginaw, Michigan: 4598 State St.;
- Central New Jersey: 31 Mule Road in Toms River;
- South New Jersey: 501 Clements Bridge Road in Barrington;
- Waldwick, New Jersey: 60 Franklin Turnpike;
- Albany, New York: 1863 Central Ave. in Colonie;
- Utica, New York: 4854 Commercial Drive in New Hartford;
- Valley Cottage, New York: 133 Route 303;
- Akron, Ohio: 4053 South Main St.;
- Cleveland, Ohio: 5795 State Road in Parma;
- Toledo, Ohio: 7225 Airport Highway in Holland;
- Youngstown, Ohio: 713 North State St. in Girard;
- Central Pennsylvania: 115 Leader Heights Road in York;
- Erie, Pennsylvania: 5430 Peach Street;
- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: 2604 Linglestown Road;
- Northeastern Pennsylvania: 20 South River Street in Plains;
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 7401 Ogontz Ave.;
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: 4111 William Penn Highway in Monroeville;
- Virginia Beach, Virginia: 2293 Upton Drive; and
- Richmond, Virginia: 3210 Boulevard in Colonial Heights.
