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In order to improve its widely condemned percentage of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered, the state Department of Health will shrink the number of active providers from 780, to 200-300 favoring the hospital systems, community health centers, local health departments and independent pharmacies that have been doing the best, while dropping primary care doctors’ offices and other small providers whose performance has lagged.
The providers being retained will need to administer at least 80% of their first doses within a week, report all shots within 24 hours and make patient registrations available online and by phone to accommodate people uncomfortable with technology or lacking it, according to an order from Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam, who spoke at a virtual news conference Friday.
HARRISBURG (AP) After weeks of complaints about Pennsylvania’s halting COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the state Health Department on Friday ordered vaccine pro
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