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Updated: 3:47 PM CST Jan 12, 2021 KOCO Staff Officials with the Oklahoma City-County Health Department announced they are partnering with the county’s four large hospital systems and Oklahoma City Community College to administer 5,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to residents 65 years old and older. According to officials, on Thursday, 3,700 doses will be administered at several locations in Oklahoma City. OU Health is administering vaccine at the Embassy Suites hotel on its campus. In addition, vaccine is being administered at OCCC, Integris’s Portland campus, Mercy’s Meinders Neuroscience Institute and three SSM St. Anthony Healthplexes.Vaccinations will continue Friday at three SSM St. Anthony’s Healthplex locations and the clinic at Embassy Suites, operated by OU Health, officials said. On Saturday, SSM Health St. Anthony’s is also vaccinating residents at two locations.Residents can register for these clinics through the state’s vaccination
Chief COVID-19 Officer Dr. Dale Bratzler said OU Health is vaccinating less than half its estimated patient capacity due to limited vaccine doses provided by the federal government.
Jordan Mobley Photography Halley Reeves is a community health strategist and a 2019 OKG s Forty Under 40 recipient. Reeves earned a master’s degree in public health from University of Washington and a master’s degree in city planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a member of American Public Health Association and American Planning Association.
OKG: Tell Us a little bit about yourself and your year compared to normal years?
Halley Reeves: This year has been one for the history books. It’s been a year filled with enormous loss and challenges while also magnifying the many blessings we have – and introduced me to some tremendous Oklahomans. In my role at OU Health, I normally would oversee the health system’s community health work. At the beginning of 2020, we had just started our first community health needs assessment and began diving into an analy