Industry advocates and the CDC answer key questions: How to facilitate a smooth transition to a new vaccine supplier; and how to guarantee second doses for staff and residents who receive their first dose at the final onsite vaccine clinics.
Early this month, AMFM Nursing & Rehabilitation Centers celebrated the completion of second-round COVID-19 vaccinations at all 19 of its buildings — before many had even offered a first round and nearly two months ahead of the target a national provider organization has set for all U.S. facilities to finish both rounds.
As their businesses groan under the weight of COVID-19-related expenses, long-term care pharmacists are pressing federal officials for relief funds and asking for a bigger role in coronavirus vaccinations.
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Future vaccines will be available to community pharmacies through partnerships with network
administrators, HHS has announced. The public-private collaboration will help cover expected distribution gaps, stakeholders say.
The collaboration will add manpower, reporting and other key capabilities to future COVID vaccine delivery in LTC facilities and communities, says Griffin, an Operation Warp Speed adviser.
Nursing home and assisted living operators should talk with their existing pharmacy provider about their capability to participate in the federal government’s new COVID-19 vaccine delivery program, advocates say.
Long-term care facilities nationwide can voluntarily opt in to a free pharmacy partnership program that will provide and administer future COVID-19 vaccines on site, federal officials announced Friday.
America’s long-term care pharmacists are preparing to play a major role in the distribution and administration of a COVID-19 vaccine, from moving vials to facilities to educating providers on packaging and drug-specific conditions that will influence their inoculation efforts.
Long-term care pharmacies now have a voice in federal decisions about COVID vaccine delivery to nursing homes and assisted living communities, says the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists.
