Governor Brian Kemp visited Pruitt Health’s The Oaks-Limestone facility in Gainesville this morning, where he announced a new partnership between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and CVS Health and Walgreens companies to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to long-term care facilities.
Kemp said that more than 95 percent of facilities in Georgia have already enrolled in the program. Pruitt Health s The Oaks location is one of 14 assisted living facilities in the state to be the first to vaccinate workers and residents under this partnership, according to a spokesperson for Kemp.
“We are eager to see the vaccine make its way quickly and safely to our most vulnerable and to those great Georgians that are giving them world-class care,” said Kemp.
Gov. Brian Kemp has scheduled a visit to Gainesville on Monday, Dec. 28.
The governor and Georgia Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Kathleen Toomey will provide an update on the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine during a stop at The Oaks-Limestone nursing home. Georgia Department of Community Health Commissioner Frank Berry will also participate.
AccessWDUN will have a reporter at the 10 a.m. event and have an update later in the day.
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Frontline healthcare workers first vaccinated
On the morning of Dec. 22, the two nondescript delivery trucks backed up to the docks of Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton and Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica, offloading the first doses of the vaccine that along with continued public health measures will give the region a chance to turn around the COVID-19 pandemic.
The hospitals received almost 2,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine enough to inoculate the frontline healthcare workers and medical staff who have battled the pandemic since the first cases appeared in March.
The health system began to administer the vaccines Tuesday afternoon.
“I think it’s important for people to remember even if they’re low-risk that we’re doing this for the at-risk people,” said Richard Warren, MD, a board-certified emergency medicine physician who was among the first to receive the vaccine. “The truth is, in the job we do and the place where we work, we’re natural spreaders.
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Caption For the past two years, Georgia reported only a fraction of the information the federal Core Set requested. Finding information about how state insurance plans provide care to people with diabetes is also more difficult this year. Credit: Pexels/Stock photo
Nine years ago, Georgia reported ample data to the feds on the health care quality of its Medicaid and PeachCare programs.
In fact, a federal report at that time praised Georgia’s “proactive role in designing its data systems to support quality measurement.”
For seven more years, Georgia continued to be near the top of the data-reporting charts for what’s called the Core Set. It consistently submitted information about how its Medicaid program and its children’s health insurance, or CHIP program (known as PeachCare in Georgia), were delivering care.