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Medical Center ground zero for testing
Ouray County Public Health Agency administrative specialist Victoria Durnan, front left, fits Mountain Medical staffer Susie Blakney for an N95 mask. (Courtesy photo)
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By Samantha Tisdel Wright, on May 14, 2020
Medical Center ground zero for testing

  • Ouray County Public Health Agency administrative specialist Victoria Durnan, front left, fits Mountain Medical staffer Susie Blakney for an N95 mask. (Courtesy photo)

When Mountain Medical Center in Ridgway got its start 20 years ago as an experiment in rural taxpayer-subsidized medicine, nobody imagined it would one day become ground zero for local testing in a world pandemic.

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