COVID-19 testing and UAs:
*If you have been in the near proximity of someone positive for COVID-19, we encourage you to obtain lab testing for the virus as soon as possible. However, simply telling your monitor you have been exposed will not excuse you from a requested UA. If you believe you have been exposed to the virus, but not been tested at a lab/clinic/pharmacy, take all feasible precautions to avoid a potential spread of COVID as you submit to the UA request.
*Please note; "at home" test results will not be accepted as valid documentation. You will need a confirmed lab-run test with your name and date of testing (indicating either you are awaiting pending results, or have tested positive) for you to be excused from a UA request.
*If you have tested positive for COVID via a lab/clinic/pharmacy setting, or if you are currently awaiting COVID testing results from a recent testing, please email documentation (paperwork you received from the testing site) to choices.monitoring@gmail.com. You will then need to follow-up your email with a call to your monitor, Jevon Sills, at 913-390-0100, for confirmation as to whether or not you are excused from a requested drug/alcohol UA.
Choices utilizes a contract service agreement with Averhealth for alcohol/drug testing:
Averhealth
**PIN call-in line-- (913) 232-2844**
All PIN-system monitored clients;
Options for contacting the UA Hotline:
1) Call the UA line after 7:00pm each evening,
including weekends and holidays,
to hear if you are requested to submit to a screen the following day.
2) Go to my.averhealth.com to check your PIN online, also including weekends and holidays, to see if you are requested to submit to a screen the following day.
3) Go to avertext.com/enroll and sign up to automatically receive a nightly text telling you whether or not you will be expected to submit to a screen the following day. You must respond to each nightly text!
120 E. Park St.
Olathe, KS 66061
or
8001 Shawnee Mission Parkway
Unit 100
Merriam, Kansas 66202
Averhealth's business hours are:
Monday-Friday 8:00am-6:00pm (this is a "walk-in" submission, but you must be there by 5:30pm),
and
AND weekends and holidays 9:00am-1:00pm (you must be there by 12:30pm).
The testing fee, as of 10/1/19, is $20, payable to Averhealth
in cash, credit, debit, money order, or cashier check
ATTENTION Johnson County DA's Office DIVERSION Monitoring Clients:
**Only your DA's Office Case Manager has the authority to excuse a UA; you must contact them directly if you experience conflicts, including travel dates, that may prohibit you from submitting your UA on time.
**You MUST also alert Choices of any requests for excused UAs, either by phone or by email.
DA's Office Case Managers:
Letitia Ferwalt--715-3099 Letitia.Ferwalt@jocogov.org
Alison Collins--715-3005 Alison.Collins@jocogov.org
Yasheen Blevins--715-3043 Yasheen.Blevins@jocogov.org
