Ouray County Public Health Agency administrative specialist Victoria Durnan, front left, fits Mountain Medical staffer Susie Blakney for an N95 mask. (Courtesy photo)
Covid
Medical Center ground zero for testing
When Mountain Medical Center in Ridgway got its start 20 years ago as an experiment in rural taxpayer-subsidized medicine, nobody imagined it would one day become ground zero for local testing in a world pandemic.
Community members at that time were faced with losing their only clinic, which had previously been operated by St. Maryâ...