Excela Health begins vaccine distribution
3,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine arrived this week Share Updated: 6:18 PM EST Dec 18, 2020
3,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine arrived this week Share Updated: 6:18 PM EST Dec 18, 2020
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Show Transcript THE FIRST VACCINES, GIVEN TO FRONT LINE WORKERS AT EXCELA HEALTH. MIKE: WESTMORELAND BUREAU REPORTER JIM MADALINSKY GOT AN INSIDE LOOK AT THEIR DISTRIBUTION PROCESS JIM: FOR THE PAST 9 MONT DOCTORS, NURSES, STAFF HERE AT , EXCELA HEALTH HAVE WALKED THESE HALLS WORRIED ABOUT THEIR PATIENTS AND THEIR OWN HEALTH . DURING THIS PANDEMIC TODAY THE FIRST STEP A BIT OF RELIEF FOR THOSE FOLKS AS THEY GOT THEIR FIRST DOSE OF THE COVID-19 VACCINE. KAREN ADAMOSKI DIDN’T WASTE ANY TIME GETTING HER COVID-1 VACCINE. HER GI LAB WAS RECENTLY TURNED INTO A UNIT FOR COVID-19 PATIENTS. WE ARE NOW HOUSING 9 COV PATIENTS AND HAPPY TO DO SO . THESE FIRST DOSES OF THE VACCINE SNAPSHOTS IN HISTORY - BUT ALSO
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Sean Kemmerer of Derry performs with his band Walk of Shame. Kemmerer will play a live-streamed performance on Dec. 17, 2020, to benefit front-line health care workers at Excela Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg.
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Sean Kemmerer was disappointed when he didn’t receive any committee assignments in his role as a member of the Derry Area School Board, so he decided to find another positive way to help the community, forming the Derry Area Philanthropy Committee earlier in the fall.