Photo: Baxter Regional Medical Center employees await the first COVID-19 vaccinations in Baxter County on Thursday morning.
Six frontline healthcare workers at Baxter Regional Medical Center (BRMC) were the first in the county to receive Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccines Thursday morning on the hospital campus.
Jackie Spurling, Julie Driesbaugh, Kayla Killian, Ralph Van Dyke, Dr. Brian Malte and Dr. Raymond Bandy received the first round of vaccinations, as BRMC begins administering 975 doses to its staff members. Officials hope to be able to vaccinate all staff members with the first two shipments received.
Thursday began Phase 1 of vaccinations at BRMC, with providers, ICU, ER and COVID-19 personnel to receive their shots first. Beginning Friday, all other departments will begin to receive vaccines, with all 975 doses expected to be administered by Monday.
Baxter Regional Medical Center has received its first doses of the vaccine for COVID-19. The hospital will host a press conference Thursday morning at 7 in the physicians’ dining room of the Medical Arts Building, and during that time, the vaccine will be distributed simultaneously to six frontline healthcare workers. For more information, contact Baxter Regional Medical Center at 870-508-1000.
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Dr. Rebecca Martin is a pulmonologist at Baxter Regional Medical Center. She wanted to volunteer in New York City because they were in need at the beginning of the pandemic. So she got permission from Baxter CEO, Ron Peterson.
“She called me, and she told me that she felt that she was being called to go there to help. That she’d been trained as a pulmonologist and that’s what physicians are supposed to do was help, said Peterson.
She flew to NYC for a few weeks to lend a helping hand at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center that was the hardest hit by COVID-19 in Brooklyn.
UAMS will conduct testing in cooperation with Baxter Regional Medical Center.
Flu vaccinations will also be available to those receiving a COVID-19 test. Vaccines will also be available at no cost. Those attending should bring their cellphone to register.
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JONESBORO, Tenn. (WMC) - The Pfizer COVID vaccine has arrived in the Mid-South.
Shipments of the Pfizer vaccine arrived in Arkansas just after 8 Monday morning. The Arkansas Department of Health says they received about 975 doses and are expecting 25,000 all together of this first round.
First COVID-19 vaccinations administered in Arkansas
Here’s the list of all the healthcare facilities that will receive the first round of the vaccine: