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Equality Health recently announced their participation in the federal Accountable Care Organization Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (ACO REACH) value-based payment model.
Organizations across the Valley held vaccine events for underserved communities, including people with disabilities after many have faced a lack of access and barriers to getting the COVID-19 vaccine in Arizona.
Among the 1,150 people expected to be vaccinated at South Mountain Community College Saturday was Valerie Duckett. She talked to The Arizona Republic as she sat in the designated recovery zone in the school s gym, minutes after getting her first and only dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Registration tables were set up just outside the gym, after which point individuals joined a line snaking around the gym leading to the vaccination stations. There were five vaccination tables, each with two Walgreens employees administering the vaccines.
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AUSTIN, Texas, April 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The American Association of Nurse Practitioners
® (AANP), the largest association of nurse practitioners (NPs), and NPs across the nation are mobilizing to encourage COVID-19 vaccine participation, raise awareness around the importance of COVID-19 vaccine access, and combat COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in minority communities. During Minority Health Month, AANP is highlighting ongoing efforts to address health disparities in minority communities and the work of NPs to increase equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines. This includes door-to-door appointment scheduling in underserved communities and mobile vaccination clinics in urban and rural areas.