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CVS Health is set to start its vaccinations at Virginia long-term care facilities on Dec. 28. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
VIRGINIA CVS Health, a partner chosen to vaccinate long-term care facility residents, plans to begin administering COVID-19 vaccines in 874 Virginia facilities on Dec. 28.
CVS Pharmacy was selected by many nursing homes and assisted living facilities nationwide to be their vaccine provider. It is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s program offering COVID-19 vaccination services for residents of long-term care facilities. CVS, Walgreens, and Managed Health Care Associates are the partners in the national program.
CVS announced it will administer the first Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses in facilities within 12 states during the week of Dec. 21: Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Vermont. Vaccinations in 36 more states, including Virginia, as well as the Dis
LAKELAND Residents and employees at Polk County nursing homes will begin receiving shots containing the COVID-19 vaccine this week.
A team will arrive Tuesday at Florida Presbyterian Homes in Lakeland to deliver injections for residents and staff of the center’s skilled-nursing facility, CEO Joe Xanthopoulos said.
Xanthopoulos said his facility’s administrator received a call Thursday afternoon from a Walgreeens representative informing her of the schedule. But Xanthopoulos was disappointed to find out that residents and staff of the center’s assisted-living facility will not receive the first round of inoculations.
“The plan was that in this first phase they would be doing all long-term care, which meant assisted-living residents and staff as well as skilled nursing,” Xanthopoulos said Friday. “I think because they did not get enough vaccines at this point in time, this first run, this first clinic, is just for our skilled-care residents and staff.”
By Todd Epp
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DES MOINES, Iowa (KELO.com) Some local pharmacists question whether CVS and Walgreens have enough staffing to quickly administer COVID-19 vaccinations to Iowa’s nursing home residents by themselves, especially in the state’s hard-to-reach rural areas.
Iowa state officials and company representatives said they believe there are enough pharmacists and technicians to equitably reach all of the state’s long-term care facilities. But independent pharmacists said the national chains’ mass hiring initiatives and efforts to poach already-employed workers point otherwise.
A flyer from a CVS Health manager who was trying to recruit pharmacists in Des Moines.
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A vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is drawn into a syringe, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, on the 12th floor of the University of Iowa Stead Family Children s Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa.
Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen via AP Pharmacies question nursing home vaccine plans
By Linh Ta
Iowa Capital Dispatch Dec 18, 2020
Dec 18, 2020
A vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is drawn into a syringe, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, on the 12th floor of the University of Iowa Stead Family Children s Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen via AP
This story was originally published by the Iowa Capital Dispatch, and can be read on their website here.
Walgreens, CVS To Offer Covid-19 Vaccines in Nursing Homes
The CDC has partnered with Walgreens, CVS and Managed Health Care Associates to offer on-site COVID-19 vaccination services to critical care patients.
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PFE) - Get Report coronavirus vaccine to residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities starting next week, despite scheduling glitches cited by some nursing home operators.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has partnered with CVS, Walgreens and Managed Health Care Associates to offer on-site COVID-19 vaccination services as part of its program to vaccinate critical care patients.
At least 106,000 residents and staff of long-term care facilities have died from the virus, accounting for 38% of the country’s Covid-related fatalities, the New York Times has reported.