Greene County Public Health has been hard at work administering the first doses of the Modera COVID-19 vaccine, which includes healthcare workers and nursing home residents.

However, Public Health Director Becky Wolf tells Raccoon Valley Radio the majority of the nursing and assisted living facilities in Jefferson have opted to go with the National Pharmacy Partnership. She says this program is an agreement with the federal government for national pharmacy chains to provide the vaccine to several nursing and assisted living residents in a short amount of time.   

Wolf explains that The Gardens Assisted Living and Regency Park Nursing and Rehab opted to be with the partnership, and the plans are being executed for strike teams to go to those facilities to administer the vaccine.

“You have to remember that the multitude of people that need to be vaccinated, it’s not going to happen overnight. But they will have an organized way to go in, get everybody done. For some of the larger facilities, it might take two or three visits to get that first dose in.”

Wolf points out one entity that opted to go with public health to get the vaccine was Long-Term Care at Greene County Medical Center.

“We’ve had a long-standing relationship with them, and it was just easiest for us to stay, ‘Well okay, public health can do that for you.’”

Wolf is excited to see how the National Pharmacy Partnership works to get nursing and assisted living residents their vaccines. To hear more from Wolf about this and other COVID-19 related topics, listen to today and tomorrow’s Community State Bank in Paton Let’s Talk Greene County program.