No-Cost COVID-19 Testing Program for All Massachusetts Early Care Centers is now available for No COST COVD 19 Testing for Affinity Empowering and Neighborhood Villages

Originally Appeared in List23
By: Aaron Rottenberg

September 21, 2021

Affinity Empowering, Inc., a leading provider of the most sophisticated and secure occupational, behavioral, and direct-to-consumer health services, along with non-profit Neighborhood Villages, today announced he will conduct weekly COVID-19 testing for all Massachusetts licensed early education and care programs. 

Neighborhood Villages and the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) are coordinating the testing for center-based and family childcare. Operation Expanded Testing (OET), a federally funded program that offers no-cost COVID-19 surveillance tests to schools and community organizations, offers free COVD19 testing for free. 

Neighborhood Villages is a systems-change non-profit organization attempting to create if all families have access to affordable, high-quality early education and care. The organization is collaborating with the Massachusetts EEC to promote the adoption of OET surveillance tests in child-care centers across Massachusetts. Testing begins at more than 260 OET centers, which are participating in this partnership, and amounts to approximately 13,000 weekly tests for students and caretakers under the same testing protocol. 

"Massachusetts has made a great decision to provide COVID-19 tests to child-care centers throughout the state through Operation Expanded Testing. The Affinity Empowering Vice President of Recruitment and Enrollment said that the COVID-19 testing, especially tests conducted with the gold standard PCR method of detection, is such a vital measure to reduce outbreak risk and maintain peace of mind in the community." "This is a great example of how local organizations, state and federal governments, and if Affinity Empowering work together to provide dependable service during era of need," he added. 

"Massachusetts is the leading state in the nation in providing free, comprehensive COVID testing for the child care sector," said Sarah Muncey, Neighborhood Villages co-president and chief innovation officer. "As we continue to confront the Delta variant, this program is vital to keeping our care providers, children, and families safe - and allowing our parents to continue working. We are so grateful to Commissioner Aigner-Treworgy and the Department of Early Education and Care for their leadership and for expanding this program to reach thousands more families. We also want to thank our partners at Affinity Empowering for assisting with the administration of this program, as well as the Biden Administration for being able to ensure that that child care sector is included in this testing program." 

Enrollment is open to eligible Massachusetts child-care centers. More information and registration details can be found at maearlyedtesting.com. 

Advantages of Operation Expanded Testing include: 

Affinity Empowering offers the OET program for Eurofins Clinical. Affinity and Eurofins use PCR testing, the gold standard for precise detection of COVID-19. The PCR test used in OET has 100% sensitivity and specificity, meaning that there are no false positives or false negatives. It also has the lowest detection limit for any authorized COVID-19 test, allowing detection of COVD19 at its early stages when viral load is low. 

During the testing, individuals submit two samples from the nose tip to ensure minimal invasiveness. To speed sample analysis, one sample from each individual is gathered together. If a pool achieves 0 percent satisfaction, the individual secondary samples from that pool are immediately examined. This scheme eliminates the need for sample recollection and reduces overall turnaround time for results. Affinity offers COVID-19 test results with an average turnaround time of 24 hours through its proprietary Assure integrated technology platform. 

Operation Expanded Testing 

Operation Expanded Testing (OET) is a federally financed program that provides no-cost, "click and go" COVID-19 surveillance testing to congregate settings, such as K-12 schools, Historically Black Colleges & Universities, correctional facilities, homeless shelters, and select, nonprofit community centers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States recommends conducting COVID-19 surveillance tests for schools' safe reopening. 

Affinity and Eurofins are coordinating OET program implementation to these institutions in 26 Northeastern and Southern states and additional territories, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in coordination with DOD. 

OET has no upfront costs or paperwork, unlike other federal programs that fund COVID-19 testing. Interested eligible parties may visit Affinity's OET website and click the "Enroll Today" button to get started. Affinity will then provide the resources and training required to establish a COVID-19 testing program at your institution. For additional information, please visit the website or contact Affinity's 24/7 customer service staff directly (email protected], or telephone: 1-844-631-0469). 

Affinity Empowering is a great example of Afinity. 

Affinity Empowering is a leading occupational health, population, and disease management life sciences organization that specializes in providing technology-based solutions and support for overall health and wellness endeavors. The firm has also expanded its expertise in COVID-19 testing, which includes occupational health, mental health and cutting edge, wrap around substance use support. Its Return to Normalcy program provides COVID-19 consultation, support, and conducts thousands of onsite, at home, testing options to safely screen, monitor, or test populations. It currently supports a number of business partners in varying fields, from government contracts, universities, top Fortune 100 firms, and major film and television production firms. 

For more information, please visit https://www.affinitytesting.com. For further information visit theaffinitiestest site.