Andrew Lim, MD, medical director of emergency medicine at Bristol Health, discusses how COVID-19 affected hospital emergency departments across the state and why continuing to receive your routine care is important during the pandemic.  

By Justin Muszynski
The Bristol Press

Bristol Health Medical Group doctors have begun seeing many patients using a telemedicine video service that helps limit person-to-person contact and cut down on possible exposures to the coronavirus.

"Our priority is the health and safety of our patients as well as that of our physicians, providers and staff,” said Dr. Liran Blum, chairman of the Bristol Health Medical Group Board of Directors. “In order to comply with social distancing and in an effort to ‘flatten the curve’ of coronavirus spread, our physicians and administration are working collaboratively to transition most office visits to telehealth visits.”