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Frances Watland, 89, was the first resident of The Lodge at Brookline in Oklahoma City to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 22, 2020. Employees of CVS gave the doses to residents and staff of the long-term care facility.
A federal program that sends retail pharmacists into nursing homes to vaccinate residents and workers has been hindered by bureaucratic hurdles and scheduling woes.
The effort to vaccinate some of the country’s most vulnerable residents against COVID-19 has been slowed by a federal program that sends retail pharmacists into nursing homes accompanied by layers of bureaucracy and logistical snafus.
As of Thursday, more than 4.7 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID vaccines had been allocated to the federal pharmacy partnership, which has deputized pharmacy teams from Walgreens and CVS to vaccinate nursing home residents and workers. Since the program started in some states on Dec. 21, however, they have administered about one-quarter of
Prealize Health to Host Virtual Event on How Payers and Providers Can Prepare for Escalating Health Risks in 2021
Panel discussion follows Prealize s 2021 State of Health Market Report on the top conditions to watch due to COVID-19 care deferrals
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PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Prealize Health, an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled predictive analytics company, today announced it will host a virtual event on how payers and providers can manage health risk this year. Prealize will be joined by healthcare leaders and physicians to discuss results of a recent analysis that identified the top diagnoses that will increase in 2021 due to COVID-19-related care deferrals, detailed in the recently published
McMedical Care Sarah Harney | December 2006
There s a health care revolution underway. But it s not being fomented by doctors and hospitals or by governors and legislators. Rather, the seeds of a radical new approach to delivering health services are taking root deep in the heart of an industry whose life s blood is efficiency and affordability.
Wal-Mart, Target, CVS and a host of other chain stores are setting up retail clinics: medical outposts that sit inside their stores, right alongside the shampoo, Pampers and ketchup. Customers can walk into the clinic, see a price list for services, sign up for an appointment and, if the wait will be more than a couple of minutes, cruise the store aisles for Christmas wrap or a can of soup.
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