Traffic patterns will change slightly near the former Deaconess Clinic Downtown

Story by Rick Allen.

Traffic patterns will change slightly near the former Deaconess Clinic Downtown building on Chestnut Street. It’s now the drive-thru testing site and the primary COVID-19 vaccine for the health system. The changes are being done allow smoother traffic flow.

If you’re there to be tested, you’ll enter from 6th Street, on to Cherry before entering the parking lot. If you’re there for a vaccine appointment,  you’ll enter from 5th Street.

To help with congestion, they ask vaccine patients to arrive no sooner than 10 minutes before their appointment.