By Chris and Rosie
Jan 22, 2021
The Page County Health Department, Lord Fairfax Health District, will offer no-cost COVID Vaccines, Friday, January 22 from 9 a.m. until 1p.m., at the Page County High School, 184 Panther Drive, Shenandoah, VA, to those 65 and older.
“With the continued outstanding collaboration of our community partners, we in the northern Shenandoah Valley have made substantial progress in Phase 1b of the COVID vaccination campaign,” said Lord Fairfax Health District Director Colin Greene. “This newest effort follows the Governor’s recent directive to ‘put shots in arms,’ and will offer vaccines to an area of the Health District distant from large healthcare facilities. It will complement the ongoing vaccine clinics conducted by Valley Health Systems at Page Memorial Hospital, and is part of a continuing series of vaccine offerings through the winter and spring.”
Holyoke Medical Center offers vouchers for local meals in lieu of holiday gathering
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
Posted Dec 17, 2020
Karen Crevier-Estes, a quality improvement/integration coordinator at Holyoke Medical Center, holds up a sample employee holiday appreciation voucher distributed to all Valley Health Systems Employees. (photo provided)
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HOLYOKE COVID-19 means Valley Health Systems can’t put on its traditional holiday meal in the cafeteria for employees of Holyoke Medical Center, Holyoke Medical Group, Holyoke VNA Hospice Life Care and River Valley Counseling Center.
And the pandemic is also making it hard on local restaurants, which are struggling to make ends meet under virus-fighting restrictions. Several restaurants in the region have closed either or for the winter or forever. Others are trying to survive on their takeout business.
‘I did not even feel the needle’: Mercy Medical Center staff receive coronavirus vaccines
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
Posted Dec 16, 2020
Alexander Payes, a registered nurse in the emergency department of Mercy Medical Center, receives Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine from Tess Grieshaber, clinical pharmacist, Wednesday, Dec. 16. (Mercy Medical submitted photo by Frank Mastromatteo)
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“I did not even feel the needle,” Wright said shortly after his immunization.
Wright said he stepped up because he believes in the importance of role models in health care in helping to overcome skepticism about the vaccine.
“It is important for members of the community to see that people in health care are not afraid to believe in science,” he said. “It is one thing to tell people to do certain things health related, but then when it comes to actually doing it you have to practice what you preach.”
Baystate Health administers first COVID-19 vaccine; other Western Mass hospitals set to immunize staff
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
SPRINGFIELD Ten months into the COVID-19 pandemic that has swept the globe, a new front against it has begun in Western Massachusetts.
Baystate Health began to administer its allotment of 1,950 doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine early Wednesday morning to staff at greatest risk for exposure to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the respiratory disease known as COVID-19.
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts now stands at 286,866 and it is blamed for 11,190 deaths in the Bay State. (Nationally, there have been 16.6 million confirmed cases resulting in more than 302,000 fatalities.)