On Friday, September 11th, LifeCare Medical Center received notification from the Mayo Clinic Laboratories that seven false positive results were reported for COVID-19 tests collected at LifeCare Medical Center. Upon receiving this news, a team of LifeCare administration called each of those seven patients immediately to notify them of their false test result.

“It was extremely important for us to quickly notify these patients of the false positive tests. The COVID-19 samples were processed at Mayo Clinic Laboratories between the dates of August 30th and September 4th,” said Kelly Hulst, RN, L...