Set design company Jag Fabrications builds COVID-19 testing booths
Warwick. From designing sets for The Food Network and major theaters, to building coronavirus testing booths, Jag Fabrications gets it done.
| 14 Apr 2020 | 07:19
A few weeks ago, Dr. Edward Orlando, a physician partner at Orange Urgent Care, put an ask out on Facebook: Could anyone build a testing booth, similar to the ones being used in South Korea, to protect urgent care employees? (
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The folks at Jag Fabrications, a set design company based out of Warwick, put themselves to work — quickly. They got their first testing booth finished and delivered to Orange Urgent Care in Middletown within four days.
A few weeks ago, Dr. Edward Orlando, a physician partner at Orange Urgent Care, put an ask out on Facebook: Could anyone build a testing booth, similar to the ones being used in South Korea, to protect urgent care employees?
“I realized these would keep our health care workers and patients safer,” Orlando said. “It also importantly reduces usage of PPE by keeping us isolated.”
The folks at Jag Fabrications, a set design company based out of Warwick, put themselves to work — quickly. They got their first testing booth finished and delivered to Orange Urgent Care in Middletown within four days.
Two days later, they donated two more to urgent care locations in New Jersey.
“I donated all materials and the shop," Jag Fabrications owner Glenn Wright said. "The guys - Barron Morgan, John Sheeran, Alex Sexton and Frank Anthony - donated their time."
“The structure is awesome," Orlando said, "and we are all thrilled to have them.”
- Molly Colgan