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Carroll College partners with Shodair for new COVID-19 tests The new tests will have results within 24 hours. By: Alexie Aguayo and last updated 2021-01-22 11:06:41-05 HELENA — The start of Carroll College’s Spring 2021 semester looked a lot like the start of the Fall 2020 semester. Students took COVID-19 tests and followed precautions throughout campus, but now Carroll College is using a local resource for faster test turnaround times. Students have a new test for COVID-19 this semester, a saliva test, making it quick and easy for all at Carroll College. However rat...

Carroll College students will be able to get COVID-19 tests with results in 24 hours through a new partnership between the school and Shodair Children's Hospital.  According to Carroll President John Cech, the college and Shodair started having conversations during the fall semester about developing a partnership. With its medical genetics expertise, infrastructure and facilities, Shodair was approved to use the "SalivaDirect" method for testing that was developed by the Yale Public School of Health. According to both Cech and Corbin Schwanke, chief administrative officer for genetics at S...

Carroll College officials on Monday unveiled a plan they said would help the school deal with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, meet the challenges in a competitive undergraduate market and offer new undergraduate, master’s and certification programs. President John Cech presented the “Realign, Reinvest, and Reimagine for Our Future” (RRR) plan to the campus via Zoom, which he said was a six-month effort with a core team of 16 faculty, staff and administrators who were told to find “realistic” budget reductions, “achievable revenue enhancements and operationa...