Dec 30, 2020
A shuttle pulls out of the Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center on Tuesday afternoon. CATHY SPAULDING/Muskogee Phoenix
Muskogee s Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center will shift its focus to geriatric and mental health patients when a new veterans hospital is built in Tulsa.
On Sunday, President Trump signed a law approving $120 million toward the Tulsa hospital, to be built by 2024. The new hospital will include inpatient medical, surgery and emergency care. Mark Morgan, director of the Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System, said the expansion will enable the VA to repurpose Muskogee s VA hospital into a much needed community living and behavioral health center.
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TULSA, Okla. â The Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System (EOVAHCS)
started giving the COVID-19 vaccination with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 22.
The VA worked with the CDC and other federal partners to develop a phased plan.
First vaccines are offered to
VA health care personnel
Next are high-risk veterans.
Officials said vaccinating high-risk VA health care personnel helps them continue providing care for veterans. The VA health care team is contacting veterans eligible for the vaccine. They ask no one to go to a VA facility to request or receive a vaccine until contacted. Staff canât provide vaccines to anyone who isnât eligible at this time.
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By Cathy Spaulding / cspaulding@muskogeephoenix Dec 17, 2020
Dec 17, 2020
Saint Francis Hospital Muskogee Director of Acute Care Services, Kim Walton, RN, fills out paperwork before receiving the COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday. CATHY SPAULDING/Muskogee Phoenix
Emergency health care workers lined up inside Saint Francis Hospital Muskogee on Wednesday to get the county s first COVID-19 vaccinations. I think our emergency department providers are on the front line, and they don t always know when somebody presents, whether they have COVID or not, said Kim Walton, RN, the hospital s emergency room and ICU director.Â
The hospital received 390 vials of the vaccine, with six doses per vial, said Kristen Carollo, public information officer for Oklahoma Health Department District 7. She said that means 2,340 possible doses for Phase 1. During Phase 1, vaccines are available to health care workers providing direct inpatient COV