Dental providers able to give COVID-19 vaccines in Kentucky as demand grows
Dental professionals able to give COVID-19 vaccine
and last updated 2021-03-01 09:23:47-05
LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) â As more people are able to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, the need for health care workers to administer it grows. That ability has now been expanded to dental providers in several states including Kentucky.
In January, the Kentucky Board of Dentistry filed an emergency administrative regulation to allow dentists and dental hygienists to administer COVID-19 vaccines. Craig Miller, a professor with the University of Kentucky s College of Dentistry, says volunteers from the college have already given out more than 1,500 vaccines at the Kroger Field clinic since they started helping in mid-February.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 24, 2021) About 70 University of Kentucky College of Health Sciences faculty, staff and students volunteered their services at the UK COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Kroger Field on Saturday, Feb. 20. The volunteers enabled the clinic to offer expanded Saturday hours and an increased vaccination capacity by about 1,000 people. This is the fourth of a five-week volunteer effort from UK s health care colleges to extend clinic hours from noon to 6 p.m. each Saturday.
The UK Kroger Field COVID-19 vaccination clinic normally operates from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays. Overall, UK HealthCare has vaccinated more than 55,000 people with 24,033 people having completed boosters including frontline health care workers, first responders, teachers and school personnel and people over age 70 in phase 1B.
President Capilouto discussed UK’s efforts on vaccination and diversity, equity and inclusion with the Board of Trustees Friday, Feb. 19. Here are his remarks:
We have talked often in this space about the twin pandemics our country confronts. One infects our lungs and bodies. Another one can afflict hearts and minds.
We must play a role now in asking and answering a critical question posed by both:
How do we bring the prospect of hope and healing, reckoning and reconciliation, to these historic challenges?
The University of Kentucky – your university, the Commonwealth’s university – has long been a source of hope. But we all know that hope alone is not a strategy or a plan.