Olivia Scheele News Today

When Olivia Scheele started her career at Memorial Regional Health as a labor and delivery nurse, she says she never considered moving off the floor into administration or leadership.

COVID-19 contact tracing in Moffat County will return to the local level with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment stepping back.

A grant opportunity from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment could allow local public health officials to retest all of the water sources throughout Moffat County School District and all certified daycare facilities…

Moffat County Public Health is looking for input from parents about concerns and questions regarding COVID-19 vaccines for children 5-17 years of age.

Closing in on the one-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 case in Moffat County, Public Health says it is looking forward to shifting into the recovery phase of the pandemic, which will allow them to get back to what Public Health would do in a normal year: focus on disease prevention. As vaccines become more readily available for Moffat County residents and cases continue to drop in 2021, Public Health hopes to be able to transition to providing immunizations, health education programs, dis...

Moffat County Public Health Nurse Becky Copeland administers a Moderna COVID-19 vaccination to a Moffat County resident during Public Health’s drive-thru vaccination clinic at the Moffat County Fairgrounds Tuesday morning. Public Health will be holding drive-thru clinics at the Fairgrounds every Tuesday and Wednesday for the foreseeable future. To sign up for an appointment, visit https://www.comassvax.org/clinic/search . (Joshua Carney / Craig Press) As COVID-19 vaccinations become more read...

The last year has been a busy one for Moffat County Public Health Nurse Olivia Scheele. It’s safe to say it’s not a year she knowingly signed up for — the workload and the general stress that the COVID-19 pandemic brought on has been incredible for public health workers nationwide. Through it all though, Scheele – dubbed the “COVID Lady” by the Craig Press in the summer of 2020 — has been front and center, taking care of patients left and right in the community, testing and vaccin...

Moffat County Public Health Nurse Olivia Scheele (right) administers a Moderna COVID-19 vaccination at Sandrock Ridge Care and Rehab in late December 2020. (Courtesy Photo / Moffat County Public Health) While the state of Colorado will receive much less in vaccines in the second major rollout than expected, Moffat County continues to roll along vaccinating community members with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. As of Friday, Jan. 14, Moffat County is reporting it has vaccinated 1,174 people betwee...

Sandrock Ridge Care and Rehab was cited for a number of Infection Prevention & Control citations during a Nov. 18, 2020 Federal Infection Control Focused Survey inside the facility, according to a recent report from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE). The citation report states that Sandrock Ridge Care and Rehab “failed to properly maintain an infection control program designed to prevent the spread of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in three of the four hallway...