{"id":4787,"date":"2021-04-12T08:08:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T14:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theclarion.org\/?p=4787"},"modified":"2021-04-12T08:08:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T14:08:21","slug":"highlands-medial-center-continues-to-require-masks-inside-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/?p=4787","title":{"rendered":"Highlands Medial Center Continues to Require Masks Inside Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the April 9 mask mandate expiration in the State of Alabama, Highlands Medical Center will continue to require staff, patients and visitors to wear a mask when inside the facility. According to the Alabama Department of Public Health, masks remain one of the most successful tools to help reduce the spread of COVID-19.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSafety is our top priority at Highlands,\u201d said Dr. Lonnie Albin, Chief Medical Officer at HMC. \u201cWearing masks has shown to be effective in helping reduce the spread of COVID-19. We are thankful the spread of the virus has slowed down in our state, and will continue to do what we can to help this trend continue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the April 9 mask mandate expiration in the State of Alabama, Highlands Medical Center will continue to require staff, patients and visitors to wear a mask when inside the facility. According to the Alabama Department of Public Health, masks remain one of the most successful tools to help reduce the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4788,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions\/4788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.theclarion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}