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Haywood vaccine clinic moves to Lambuth Inn
Key Updates: Haywood County’s Mass Vaccination clinic will move this week to a new temporary location at the Lambuth Inn at Lake Junaluska due to a scheduling conflict at the Smoky Mountain Event Center. A separate press release on this change will be forthcoming. As always, this clinic is only for those with an appointment.
Where to find COVID-19 vaccine information:
For vaccine appointment or registration questions call: 828-356-2019
Please do not call the health department’s main number for COVID-19 vaccination questions, use the hotline number instead.
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Trump is a threat
To the Editor:
The other day a friend of mine made this remark: “I never want to hear Trump supporters mention morality (as in the Moral Majority) again. They have bowed down to his steady stream of lies as though the rest of us merely have to accept lying as a way of life in America.”
Another said, ”Do people not see the blatant hypocrisy in chanting ‘Lock her up!’ about Hillary Clinton’s peripheral role in the tragic deaths in Benghazi while they tolerate Donald Trump’s central role in inciting an insurrection that resulted in a violent break-in and multiple deaths in the Capitol of the United States of America?”
HCA/Mission monitor to hold webinar
Gibbins Advisors is scheduling an informational online meeting open to all communities in Western North Carolina served by Mission Health. The webinar will take place at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 7.
Gibbins Advisors is the Independent Monitor (IM) hired to monitor HCA Healthcare’s compliance with the obligations it agreed to when it purchased Mission Health System.
This is a “refresher” from last year’s seven in-person community meetings. In the webinar, the IM team will discuss its role, provide an update on its work, and present the opportunity to ask questions.
Those interested in participating can register at the following link: https://www.independentmonitormhs.com/register