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The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust recently awarded Pullman Regional Hospital $450,000 for the clinical and education space for the proposed WSU Family Medicine Residency Program.
Last year, PRH submitted a letter of inquiry to the foundation and submitted a proposal for a grant in the fall, said Rueben Mayes, PRH Foundation chief development and external relations officer.
The hospital was notified in October that the proposal had been accepted. Representatives from the foundation visited the site for the residency program in December, he said
Mayes said the application itself included what PRH intended to do with the money, the cost of the residency program and what impact the grant would have on the project.
COVID-19 vaccine appointments are filling up quickly as vaccine eligibility expanded April 15 to all individuals over 16 years old in Washington state.
As of April 20, Whitman County has administered over 29,280 COVID-19 vaccination doses, according to the Washington State Department of Health’s COVID-19 data dashboard.
For those interested in scheduling an appointment, Pullman Regional Hospital, Palouse Medical and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, among others, currently offer vaccines to the Pullman community.
Pullman Regional Hospital
PRH, located at 835 SE Bishop Boulevard, will administer the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at its upcoming clinics, according to the hospital’s COVID-19 vaccine page.
Those over 18 years old are eligible to receive the Moderna vaccine, according to the vaccine’s Emergency Use Authorization fact sheet.
The COVID-19 vaccine is available to anyone over 16 years old in Washington state, and many WSU students have already begun the process of becoming vaccinated.
In Whitman County, about 12,900 people, which is about 25.8 percent of the county population, have received at least one dose of the vaccine; 7,898 people, which is 15.8 percent, are fully vaccinated as of April 18, according to Covid Act Now.
Currently, there are several places in Pullman offering the vaccine, including Palouse Medical, Sid’s Pharmacy, Pullman Regional Hospital, Safeway and Cougar Health Services.
Kira Baruch, junior hospitality business management major, already received her first shot. Baruch said she is surprised people 16 and over can get the vaccine so soon.
After administering over 4,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses since December, Palouse Medical continues to hold vaccination clinics for members of the community.
Palouse Medical received its first vaccines Dec. 17, and staff members began administering doses to first responders in Whitman County Dec. 18, said Theresa Kwate, Palouse Medical executive director.
After vaccinating first responders, Palouse Medical staff members began reaching out to patients who were over 65 years old. Kwate said staff members had the same “let’s-get-it-done” mentality.
“We’re all under the same mission: we want to get out of COVID, and we want to get back to whatever our new normal life is going to be,” she said.