Ohio State transforms Schottenstein Center into mass vaccination site
Staff vaccinate 400 university health care workers during soft launch
Staff from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center vaccinated more than 400 of their peers today at the Jerome Schottenstein Center.
The vaccination program was a trial run before the home of the basketball Buckeyes turns into a mass COVID-19 vaccination site for patients and the public. The vaccination program at the Schottenstein Center begins next week (Jan. 19) and will eventually have the capacity to provide more than 3,000 vaccines per day.
“The Schottenstein Center offers us a lot of advantages over our other campus locations, so in particular, as we think about moving to the general public and particularly the elderly public, certainly we have ADA accessible facilities here. We have ample parking that’s very close to the site,” said Crystal Tubbs, associate director in the Department of Pharmacy at the medical center.
Wexner Medical to use Schottenstein Center for mass COVID-19 vaccination site
Site will initially serve only established patients in the state’s priority populations
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Starting Jan. 19, the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center will utilize the Jerome Schottenstein Center at The Ohio State University as a mass COVID-19 vaccination site for its patients and, later, the general public. The medical center estimates that it can provide over 3,000 vaccines per day through this site.
Consistent with Gov. Mike DeWine’s announcement about Ohio’s approach to Group 1B priority populations, the medical center will start vaccinating its patients over age 80 at this site. In addition to patients over age 80, other 1B populations will be vaccinated in the future.