As COVID-19 continues to spread across the region one local recovery center is seeing its first positive cases.

Matt Brown, Addiction Recovery Care Senior Vice President of Administration, says two clients and three employees tested positive at their Creekside facility in Knott County.

Brown says they have continued to stress the importance of proper PPE, social distancing, and cleaning throughout the facility.

The facility is taking extra precautions to protect those within the facility.

“MCHC out of Whitesburg has brought their mobile testing unit to our facility at Creekside so all clients and all employees will be tested today because we want to know how many positive cases we have and we want to begin acting immediately,” said Brown. “We have had one facility out of our 30 that have had a positive case so we are excepting patients in our other facilities and if anybody wants to get help we are still available. “

For more information on ARC, you can visit their website here or call 877-959-2321.