WMS Launches COVID-19 Resource Webpage
When you need a resource, you need it quickly. WMS understands that and has created a repository of resources that is organized and designed to support your work in responding to COVID-19.

Visit our page for State Executive Orders, State Medical and Pharmacy Board Guidance, CDC updates, Telehealth support, legislative items relating to financial relief for practices, updated COVID-19 testing information, supply ordering procedures and so much more.

This site will be updated throughout the day each day that this pandemic persists. If there is a resource you find helpful that isn't already included on our site, send it our way so we can include it for everyone's benefit.
COVID-19 Testing & Supply
The State Public Health Lab (WPHL) is working to enhance testing capacity in Cheyenne. They have increased staff capacity, added additional equipment, and lengthened working hours to accommodate increased demand.

Get the facts on the WMS COVID-19 resource page about who should be tested, and detailed information about WPHL's response to COVID-19.

Testing resources and links to helpful information will be updated as often as possible.

Testing Quick Facts:

  • WPHL does not supply collection supplies, nor has it ever but for rare exceptions.

  • Given this unprecedented situation, if WPHL had access to testing collection supplies, they would absolutely distribute those. They do not have access to collection supplies for distribution at this time.

  • Testing capacity at WPHL continues to increase and is far greater than 10 tests/day. They are averaging closer to 80-100 tests/day currently.

  • There is not a current backlog at WPHL.

  • The form, while lengthy, is important in order for WPHL to appropriately prioritize testing - please complete it thoroughly in order to ensure that the right people get tested quickly.
WMS Text Alerts
WMS has been working on a communication plan to be more adaptable to the needs of our membership. We now have the capability to send text message notifications for our most important messages. We plan to use this tool with the utmost respect of your personal time and space, only using this texting feature with the most pertinent information for our membership.

If we have your cell phone available in our database you will be sent a text message to opt-in to receive communication from WMS via text message. Legally, you must opt-in to receive this communication. We HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you opt-in to this service. While we will continue to send email messaging, the fastest way to communicate to our members with time sensitive information is via text.

To opt-in: Text keyword WMS TO 85100
COVID-19 Education and Community Connections
From educational webinars intended to provide support to community connections in which you can hear from fellow providers in hardest hit areas to share experiences, benefit from lessons learned and offer support, WMS is working with our partners to give you what you need.
Specialty Guidance - Thursday, 3/26, 12 PM
Join Pulmonologist and CRMC ICU Director, Sodienye Tetenta, MD, along with Infectious Disease specialist and head of CRMC Infection Control, Hoo Feng Choo, MD, for an educational Zoom webinar on what WY physicians should know about caring for severe respiratory illness. COVID-19 may thrust many physicians into areas of medical practice outside their trained specialty. Let Drs. Choo and Tetenta provide guidance and support for when you might need it most.
Join Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 220 919 703
Password: 016747
Connect With Your Community - Weekly Call
To Participate in weekly Tuesday calls:
Dial: 1-800-944-8766
Code: 41778#



Every week on Tuesday, over the noon hour , WMS physicians and PAs can dial-in to connect with colleagues from across the state.

Share experiences, offer advice and learn from each other. Jump on tomorrow to talk with Lander ER physician, Brian Gee, MD, for insight into Lander's experience with COVID-19 this past week.
Anxious or Stressed? WPAP Can Help
WPAP will be hosting a virtual support group to help healthcare professionals cope with the stress, anxiety, and trauma of working within the healthcare field during COVID-19.

For information about WPAP or to schedule a time to speak with a member of the clinical staff visit:
Join Zoom Meeting

Phone: 1-253-215-8782

Wyoming Needs Your Help
During these trying times, WMS is asking physicians to consider answering a future call to provide their time, energy, and skill to help Wyoming help our patients. COVID-19 is putting a tremendous strain on all physicians, especially those on the front lines, and the state is positioned to see unprecedented surge in patient care needs.

WMS is working with the State Board of Medicine to identify physicians who would be willing to help care for patients if the time came that our state might need you. Please consider submitting your name below to be added to a database of providers that we may need to call in if the situation worsens.

Wyoming is strong, our providers are strong, and sometimes strong means asking for help. Thank you for considering volunteering in this difficult time.
WMS Message to our Membership
COVID-19 is unprecedented and the public is turning to the leaders of the healthcare community to guide them through the uncertainty and fear of this situation with knowledge and experience. The whole world has been inundated with information about COVID-19, much of which is not based in fact. Please continue to help support the messaging from our state leadership regarding social distancing and respecting current restrictions. These messages resonate deeper when they come from the highly respected physician and healthcare community.

We will do our best to provide you with as much information as we deem to be helpful as you practice during COVID-19, but the messaging will only create an impact when you share it in your clinics with patients and staff, post and share it on your social media, etc. Please help WMS to be the place that our state can turn to for reliable information during this crisis.

We appreciate everything that you are doing for Wyoming.
Thank you!