COVID-19 Information

• Say Yes COVID Tests (Department of Health)
• Ephrata Schools have free COVID-19 tests for home use. Please ask your student's school office for more information.
• Your medical insurance company will pay for COVID-19 tests at your local pharmacy.

• Samaritan COVID-19 testing hotline: (509) 764-3331
• Wenatchee Testing Sites
• Walgreens COVID Testing

• Columbia Basin Family Medicine:                                 (509) 754-3330
• Columbia Basin Hospital:                                              (509) 754-6431
• Confluence Health:                                                        (509) 663-8711 option 1
• Samaritan Health Care:                                                 (509) 764-3331 
• Moses Lake Community Health Center:                        (509) 765-0674
• Quincy Community Health Center:                                (509) 787-6423
• Quincy Valley Medical Center:                                      (509) 787-3531
• RIZA Family Medicine:                                                  (509) 764-7492

Please contact your child's school office.

Students and staff are required to stay home if they are not feeling well and stay home until they feel better. For guidance on when to stay home, please click the link below.

What to do if you don't feel well

Regardless of vaccination status, students and staff potentially exposed to COVID-19 are encouraged to:

• Monitor for symptoms, AND
• Consider wearing a well fitting mask for 10 days after the last date of exposure, AND
• Test as soon as possible after exposure and then repeat testing every 24-48 hours through at least the first 5 days after exposure.

The following COVID protocol are required at Ephrata Schools

• Exclusion of people with symptoms, regardless of vaccination
• Notifying groups or individuals of potential exposures through our COVID Dashboard
• Access to free home tests
• Reporting cases, outbreaks
• Responding to outbreaks
• Handwashing

Face coverings are optional for students, staff and visitors. They can be required in limited settings and situations (if an individual is sick with COVID-19, if an individual is assisting a sick person, when visiting a sick room or nurses' room).