Kaptur announces that Erie County and Cleveland health centers join COVID-19 vaccination program – The Morning Journal

United States Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) announced March 19 that Neighborhood Health Care Inc. in Cleveland and the Erie County Community Health Center are invited to join the Health Center COVID-19 Vaccine Program over the next six weeks.

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched this program to directly allocate novel coronavirus vaccine to HRSA-supported health centers to ensure that the nation's underserved communities and those disproportionately affected by COVID-19 are equitably vaccinated, according to a new release from Kaptur.

This designation will help Ohioans in Sandusky and Cleveland get vaccinated as soon as possible that is a triumph for our community after more than a year of living with the pandemic, she said. Im immensely thankful for those at the Erie County Health Center and Neighborhood Health Care for their selfless work helping to vaccinate our neighbors here in northern Ohio.

"Thanks to them and with federal support, we are going to beat this virus together.

With assistance from the Health Resource Services Administration and the CDC, the Erie County Community Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center, will now expand COVID-19 vaccinations to those in our region here in Ohio, said Pete Schade, Erie County health commissioner. We are extremely fortunate to be a provider with the ability to order vaccine direct from the supplier.

"This type of activity will continue to assure our communities that all people will have an opportunity to become fully vaccinated against the virus. We will join our stakeholders in promoting vaccine and administering it to all as we fight this pandemic together.

Neighborhood Family Practice is grateful for the opportunity to get more vaccines into the arms of our patients as they are often the most at risk for COVID-19 and have struggled to get sufficient vaccination opportunities, said Dr. Chad Garven, associate medical director at Neighborhood Health Care Inc.

Today, an additional 700 health centers were invited to participate in the next phase of the program and include those that serve high proportions of low income and minority patients, provide services to rural/frontier populations, operate Tribal/Urban Indian Health Programs, and/or utilize mobile vans to deliver services.

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